decapod: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

decapod CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from DecapodLabs/decapod. It costs 1,567 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for DecapodLabs/decapod, including how to orient an agent, ingest documentation, follow project rules, and pass a required prompt-safety check. Decapod is a tool-managed development environment with its own commands and release rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working in a Decapod-managed repository, especially before reading project content, running Decapod commands, validating changes, or publishing commits.
Why use it?
It helps an agent use Decapod's documented entry points and avoid bypassing repository or publication safeguards.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is DecapodLabs/decapod's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on decapod itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything decapod configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to DecapodLabs/decapod. 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/DecapodLabs/decapod/master/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DecapodLabs/decapod

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 1,567 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,567 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01567 $0.01567
Opus 5.5 $0.00627 $0.00627
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00313 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00157 $0.00157

Measured today against content hash 91e1b53340a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decapod 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 today.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

CLAUDE.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md - Agent Entrypoint

You are working in a Decapod-managed repository. See AGENTS.md for the universal contract.

Orientation & Documentation

  • Run decapod docs ingest before using Decapod beyond help/version checks.
  • Use decapod docs command output instead of guessing command arguments.
  • Treat Decapod errors as recovery instructions. Once source and required governance material are ready, checkpoint and commit the candidate, then run plain decapod validate. Validation owns configured build prerequisites and tests; do not run a separate manual build or shadow preflight. Do not ask again before an already-authorized configured validation push or a supported, safely replayable retry to the same repository and workspace branch. Recheck the exact source and accepted target; stop on explicit cancellation, access or authorization denial, or a change that requires new authority. For supported remote source-CI contracts, validation uses the accepted target’s independently verified executor to build and test the candidate, even when candidate helper bytes change. The controller keeps the required graph and final verdict; candidate output cannot authorize itself. CONTROLLER_CONTRACT_UNSUPPORTED identifies an unsupported carrier, protocol or accepted executor. Rerunning the same controller, repinning configuration or running a manual build cannot resolve that blocker; use an independently supported controller for this exact contract, and preserve the blocker if none is available.
  • Respect repo-local config policy and workspace boundaries.
  • Do not bypass Decapod boundaries to appear productive. Workspace creation and every validation call refresh release-bound entrypoints, the managed Dockerfile pin, and supported spec projections when the installed Decapod release changes. Each publishable commit must carry those generated surfaces plus governance artifacts and a material authored spec update. Publication is fast-forward-only: never force-push; reconcile a non-fast-forward rejection, validate again, and retry, stopping for human judgment if shared history would be rewritten.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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.

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decapod CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository DecapodLabs/decapod (237 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,567 tokens to every session, about $0.0063 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.

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