MatClaw: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

MatClaw CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from DingyangLyu/MatClaw. It costs 875 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project instruction file for MatClaw, a materials-science assistant that connects chat channels to scientific computing tools. It records branch, release, project-structure, and runtime guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand branch and push rules, the Node.js service structure, supported chat channels, and the scientific software environment.
Why use it?
It gives contributors the context needed to change the project without breaking its release process or communication setup.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is DingyangLyu/MatClaw's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on MatClaw 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 MatClaw configures →

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Borrowing it

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

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DingyangLyu/MatClaw

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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 · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MatClaw

Git Branch & Push Strategy

  • Local matclaw-release → stable, pushes to main on all remotes
  • Local dev → experimental, pushes to dev on github (DingyangLyu/MatClaw)
  • New features and large changes go on dev first, merge to matclaw-release after testing
  • Push commands:
    • Stable: git push github matclaw-release:main (+ gitee, zgca, bjzgcai)
    • Dev: git push github dev
  • NEVER add Co-Authored-By to commits

About

Materials science AI assistant powered by Claude Agent SDK, with integrated computational materials science tools (Quantum ESPRESSO, LAMMPS, RASPA3, MACE, pymatgen, ASE, etc.).

Quick Context

Single Node.js process with skill-based channel system. Channels (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Gmail) are skills that self-register at startup. Messages route to Claude Agent SDK running in containers (Linux VMs). Each group has isolated filesystem and memory. Containers include a full materials computation environment with DFT, MD, MC tools and Miniconda for flexible package management.

Key Files

File Purpose
src/index.ts Orchestrator: state, message loop, agent invocation
src/channels/registry.ts Channel registry (self-registration at startup)
src/ipc.ts IPC watcher and task processing
src/router.ts Message formatting and outbound routing
src/config.ts Trigger pattern, paths, intervals
src/container-runner.ts Spawns agent containers with mounts
src/task-scheduler.ts Runs scheduled tasks
src/db.ts SQLite operations
groups/{name}/CLAUDE.md Per-group memory (isolated)
container/skills/agent-browser/ Browser automation tool (available to all agents via Bash)
container/skills/materials-compute/ Materials computation guide (QE, LAMMPS, RASPA3, MACE, pymatgen, ASE)

Skills

Skill When to Use
/setup First-time installation, authentication, service configuration
/customize Adding channels, integrations, changing behavior
/debug Container issues, logs, troubleshooting
/update-matclaw Bring upstream MatClaw updates into a customized install
/qodo-pr-resolver Fetch and fix Qodo PR review issues interactively or in batch
/get-qodo-rules Load org- and repo-level coding rules from Qodo before code tasks

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 1mo ago First seen · 78 lines · 875 tokens per session scan A f5e89be5a5fe

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MatClaw CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository DingyangLyu/MatClaw (98 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 875 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 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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