ai-context: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ai-context CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from dkothule/ai-context. It costs 393 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for Claude Code that imports shared ai-context rules and adds Claude-specific guidance. It covers planning, saved session context, and permission settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide multi-file plans, preserve session notes, restore context after compaction, and control how setup or maintenance commands edit files.
Why use it?
It lets Claude Code use the same project knowledge as other assistants and resume work after a context reset.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is dkothule/ai-context's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ai-context 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 ai-context configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 393 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 393 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 $0.00393 $0.00393
Opus 5.5 $0.00157 $0.00157
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00079 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00039 $0.00039

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 975e8de9876d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-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 1mo 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 · 11 lines

What it actually says

@AGENTS.md

Claude Code

Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md (not AGENTS.md) — the @AGENTS.md import above pulls in the shared adapter so both tools use one source of truth. Claude-specific notes only below.

  • Plan mode: use /plan before multi-file refactors or architectural changes. Once approved, immediately write the plan to .ai-context/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>.md before beginning any implementation.
  • Compaction: a PreCompact hook autosaves the working transcript to .ai-context/sessions/YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS[-N]-precompact-autosave.md before every compaction (manual /compact or auto) to support best-effort recovery. A SessionStart hook (startup/resume/compact) emits a forward-looking log reminder and any autosave curation request through additionalContext — review the autosave, curate it into a proper session log, record the autosave filename as source_autosave, copy its local_transcript_ref if present, then delete the autosave.
  • Session end: a SessionEnd hook (every exit reason, resume included) writes .ai-context/sessions/YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS[-N]-sessionend-autosave.md when today has no curated log — end reason, branch, working tree, diffstat, recent commits and the transcript pointer. It writes directly rather than asking, because Claude Code discards session-end hook output. Nothing is written when a log already exists. Curate it like a pre-compact autosave.
  • Permissions: ai-context setup/compact/check-drift run with --permission-mode acceptEdits by default. Override via --permission-mode <mode> if you need stricter/looser permissions.
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 Changed · +1 lines · +127 tokens per session 975e8de9876d
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 10 lines · 266 tokens per session scan A 2fe1d6c2d985

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ai-context CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dkothule/ai-context (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 393 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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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