chainlink: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

chainlink CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from dollspace-gay/chainlink. It costs 279 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Chainlink, an issue tracker that stores tasks and session handoffs in a local database. It documents commands for issues, comments, labels, blockers, and work sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in a Chainlink-managed repository to create, update, organize, and close issues, or to start and end agent work sessions.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a consistent way to find available work, record progress, and leave context for the next session. It also points to project rules for languages, security, and testing.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is dollspace-gay/chainlink's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on chainlink 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 chainlink configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 279 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 279 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 $0.00279 $0.00279
Opus 5 $0.00139 $0.00139
Sonnet 5 $0.00056 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00028

Measured 8d ago against content hash f2aaead1805b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chainlink 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 8d 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 · 42 lines

What it actually says

Track tasks across AI sessions. Data in .chainlink/issues.db.

Commands

# Issues
chainlink create "title" [-p high] [-d "desc"]
chainlink list [-s all|closed] [-l label] [-p priority]
chainlink show|update|close|reopen|delete <id>
chainlink subissue <parent> "title"

# Organization
chainlink comment <id> "text"
chainlink label|unlabel <id> <label>
chainlink block|unblock <id> <blocker>
chainlink blocked|ready

# Sessions
chainlink session start|end|status|work <id>
chainlink session end --notes "handoff context"

Workflow

  1. session start → see previous handoff
  2. session work <id> → mark focus
  3. Work, add comments
  4. session end --notes "..." → save context

Best Practices

  • Start sessions when beginning work
  • Use ready to find unblocked issues
  • Use subissues for tasks >500 lines
  • End with handoff notes before context compresses

Language rules, security requirements, and testing guidelines are in .chainlink/rules/ and auto-injected based on detected project languages.

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. 8d ago First seen · 42 lines · 279 tokens per session scan A f2aaead1805b

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chainlink CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dollspace-gay/chainlink (357 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 279 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 per session on Opus 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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