What is king-context CLAUDE.md?

Instructions for working on king-context, a command-line tool that helps AI agents search project and research information. They explain how its general rules connect with Claude Code-specific notes and available skills.

Use them when working on king-context with Claude Code, especially for pull requests, reviews, commits, issues, architecture decisions, or documentation searches.

They keep agents aligned with the repository's established workflow instead of improvising actions such as creating pull requests, issues, commits, or architecture records.

How deandevz/king-context configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to deandevz/king-context. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deandevz/king-context/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deandevz/king-context

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 494 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 494 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00494	$0.00494
Opus 5.5	$0.00198	$0.00198
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00099	$0.00099
Haiku 4.5	$0.00049	$0.00049

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 43120162d16d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

king-context CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 32 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 32 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

@AGENTS.md

The imported AGENTS.md above is the canonical rule set: project identity (CLI-first, MCP legacy), the two retrieval stacks, commands, code conventions, testing, commits, ADRs, and the working agreement with the maintainer. Everything below is Claude-Code-specific.

Skills

This repo ships and uses Claude Code skills. Use them instead of improvising the equivalent workflow:

Task	Skill
Create a PR	`pr-create` (authoritative; minimal Summary and Scope body)
Review a contributor PR	`pr-review-flow` (Portuguese verdict first, English preview after approval, confirm before every GitHub action)
Create a commit	`commit-create`
Capture a deferred idea as a GitHub issue	`idea-issue` (plain English, no invented solutions, preview first, `idea` label)
Record an architecture decision	`king-record-decision` (drives `kctx adr`, never hand-written ADR markdown)
Query past decisions	`king-decisions`
Search indexed documentation	`king-context`
Scrape and index docs	`scraper-workflow`
Research a topic into a corpus	`king-research`

The five king-context skills (king-context, scraper-workflow, king-research, king-decisions, king-record-decision) are also distributed to user projects by the installer; their templates live in installer/templates/skills/. When editing a skill, keep the repo copy and the template in sync. See docs/skills.md.

Claude-specific notes

The repo's own .claude/skills/king-context/skill.md intentionally calls bare kctx, while the installer template uses .king-context/bin/kctx wrapper paths. Do not "fix" one to match the other.
Tests for MCP server tools mock search_cascade() and other db functions with full module paths (king_context.db.x, king_context.server.x).
When verifying CLI behavior end to end, use the repo venv: .venv/bin/kctx, .venv/bin/king-scrape, .venv/bin/king-research.

Read the full file on GitHub · 32 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 32 lines · 494 tokens per session scan A 43120162d16d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

king-context CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository deandevz/king-context (56 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 494 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Building agents

king-context CLAUDE.md next to 6 instructions from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
king-context CLAUDE.mddeandevz/king-context	Instructions file	56	5mo ago	MIT	A	494	Claude Code
vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	9,719	GitHub Copilot
next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js	Instructions file	143k	today	MIT	A	7,461	Codex, OpenCode
langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain	Instructions file	149k	yesterday	MIT	A	4,680	Codex, OpenCode
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	5,516	GitHub Copilot
vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	3,093	GitHub Copilot
deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness	Instructions file	274k	2d ago	MIT	A	4,313	Codex, OpenCode

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