forensic-deepdive: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

forensic-deepdive CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Dhevenddra/forensic-deepdive. It costs 1,746 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for forensic-deepdive, a tool that creates lasting documentation about an unfamiliar codebase. Its documents describe the code map, important paths, history, mental model, and rules for future coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on forensic-deepdive to understand its Python stack, follow its decisions, run extraction and tests, and apply formatting and lint checks.
Why use it?
They give an agent a required starting procedure, project context, and checks to run before changes are merged.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is Dhevenddra/forensic-deepdive's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on forensic-deepdive 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 forensic-deepdive configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Dhevenddra/forensic-deepdive. 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/Dhevenddra/forensic-deepdive/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dhevenddra/forensic-deepdive

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 1,746 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 $0.01746 $0.01746
Opus 5.5 $0.00698 $0.00698
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00349 $0.00349
Haiku 4.5 $0.00175 $0.00175

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5a26181852b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forensic-deepdive 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 · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — forensic-deepdive

What this project is

forensic-deepdive produces five durable markdown artifacts giving any AI coding agent forensic understanding of an unfamiliar codebase. Distillation over retention. Codified rules over vague summaries. Composable tools.

Five artifacts: MAP.md, HOTPATHS.md, ARCHAEOLOGY.md, MENTAL_MODEL.md, AGENT_BRIEF.md. AGENT_BRIEF is headline — ≤5kb, assertive Never/Always rules.

Stack

  • Python 3.11+ (uv-managed); typer CLI; rich (styled CLI, DEC-077); tree-sitter-language-pack; networkx; real-ladybug (graph, DEC-013); mcp; httpx; pydantic v2.
  • Optional extras: graphiti (v0.2), semantic (ONNX, v0.3), openapi (v0.4), dev (ruff/pytest).
  • License: Apache-2.0.

Critical commands

uv sync --all-extras              # install (dev tools = `dev` extra)
uv run forensic --version         # smoke test
uv run forensic extract examples/tiny_fixture
uv run pytest tests/ -x           # tests must pass before any merge
uv run ruff check src/ tests/
uv run ruff format src/ tests/

Session start protocol (MANDATORY)

  1. Read CLAUDE.md (this file).
  2. Read DECISIONS.md — never contradict an active decision without writing a superseding entry first.
  3. Read PROGRESS.md — know what's done and what's next.
  4. Glance at git log --oneline -10 to see the last 10 commits.
  5. Confirm understanding in one sentence before writing any code: "Working on , respecting DEC-N about ."

Session end protocol (MANDATORY)

  1. Append to PROGRESS.md under today's date: what was done, what's in flight, what's blocked.
  2. If a non-trivial architectural choice was made, write a new DECISIONS.md entry.
  3. Stage and commit with a conventional-commit message (feat:, fix:, chore:, docs:, test:).
  4. Never push without explicit user instruction.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 91 lines · 1,746 tokens per session scan A 5a26181852b2

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forensic-deepdive CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Dhevenddra/forensic-deepdive (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,746 tokens to every session, about $0.0070 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 2026-08-31.

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