memex: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

memex CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from dioniipereyraa/memex. It costs 20,569 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Development instructions for Memex, a project that makes an AI assistant's conversation context available to Claude Code. Its storage, search, capture, and MCP components provide the supporting infrastructure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or maintaining Memex, especially when changing its architecture, roadmap, documentation, storage, search, or context-capture features.
Why use it?
It keeps project decisions and context from being lost between sessions or contributors. It also sets rules for planning, reviewing code, updating project documents, and checking for security problems.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionEnd hook event. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

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

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/.../foo.whl.

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 20,569 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 20,569 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 3 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 $0.20569 $0.20569
Opus 5 $0.10285 $0.10285
Sonnet 5 $0.04114 $0.04114
Haiku 4.5 $0.02057 $0.02057

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1fb94fda8202, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

memex CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 3 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 6d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- **A `curl ... | sh` installer runs under the system `/bin/sh`, not its shebang.** `install-pypi.sh` declared `#!/usr/bin/env bash` and used `set -euo pipefail`, but the documented one-liner pipes it to `sh`. On Debian/

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **A request that carries embeddings must be batched by serialized size, never by a fixed item count.** `memex sync push`/`reconcile` batched conversations 500-at-a-time, bounded only by the server's `_MAX_SYNC_UUIDS` c

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

- **A `curl ... | sh` installer runs under the system `/bin/sh`, not its shebang.** `install-pypi.sh` declared `#!/usr/bin/env bash` and used `set -euo pipefail`, but the documented one-liner pipes it to `sh`. On Debian/
CLAUDE.md · 290 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 290 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Context and rules for any Claude Code instance working in this repo (including parallel worktrees).

Project idea in one line

The context Claude.ai has should also be available to Claude Code. Everything else (storage, embeddings, MCP, capture) is plumbing to get there.

Full detail in README.md and ROADMAP.md.

Working rules (apply ALWAYS)

  1. Read the code before and after editing. Before so you do not break anything, after to verify what ended up there.
  2. Keep README, ROADMAP, and DEVLOG in sync with every relevant change. Update them in the same iteration as the code.
  3. Review the code you just wrote for bugs before closing the task.
  4. When closing each ROADMAP phase, audit the whole project for bugs, obsolete code, and vulnerabilities. Deliver a written report.
  5. Plan before coding. No writing code without a clear plan.
  6. If there are real doubts, ask. Do not assume.
  7. Code and plans designed to scale. Clear separation of responsibilities (pure core, swappable transport, embedder and storage behind interfaces).
  8. No em dashes as connectors. Use commas, periods, parentheses. Applies to docs, commits, code, and replies to the user.
  9. No Claude shoutouts in commits. No Co-Authored-By, no AI footers. Commits signed only by the human author.
  10. Apply these rules in every iteration.

Stack

  • Python 3.12+, package manager uv.
  • FastMCP for the MCP server (supports stdio and SSE/HTTP).
  • SQLite + sqlite-vec for storage and vector search.
  • fastembed by default (zero-config, embedded ONNX) or optional Ollama with nomic-embed-text. Backend configurable via MEMEX_EMBED_BACKEND.
  • pydantic + pydantic-settings for config and models.
  • typer + rich for CLI.
  • pytest, ruff, mypy for test/lint/typecheck.

Read the full file on GitHub · 290 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. 6d ago First seen · 290 lines · 20,569 tokens per session scan C 1fb94fda8202

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memex CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dioniipereyraa/memex (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20,569 tokens to every session, about $0.1028 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 3 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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