manifest-dev: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

manifest-dev CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from doodledood/manifest-dev. It costs 8,437 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository instruction file for manifest-dev, a marketplace project whose workflows define, execute, and verify development plans.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing manifest-dev workflows, documentation, issue text, pull requests, commit messages, or other public repository content.
Why use it?
It sets rules for public repository content and explains the project's commands, workflow, and standards for keeping committed material appropriate for outside readers.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is doodledood/manifest-dev's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on manifest-dev 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 manifest-dev configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 8,437 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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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 $0.08437 $0.08437
Opus 5.5 $0.03375 $0.03375
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01687 $0.01687
Haiku 4.5 $0.00844 $0.00844

Measured today against content hash b6a77252bf5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manifest-dev 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 today.

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 · 309 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 309 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Project Overview

manifest-dev marketplace — manifest-driven workflows for Claude Code. /define interviews and writes a Manifest; /do executes it and makes every Acceptance Criterion and Global Invariant hold on fresh evidence. Ships skills, not custom agents.

Public Repository Discipline

This repo is public. Everything committed or posted to it — docs, ADRs, READMEs, PR titles and descriptions, commit messages, issue text — must stand on its own merits. Keep out what a reader would be worse off for seeing: credentials and secrets, the contents of private planning or strategy documents, anything personal, and links into chat sessions or transcripts nobody outside can open. Also skip commentary on the repo's own adoption or popularity (star counts, usage levels, traction) — a positioning choice, not a secrecy one.

Set the bar there and no lower. Incidental working detail is fine and not worth policing: a branch name, a local path, the name of a workflow mode, a note on how a change was produced. Treating those as exposure costs more than it protects. ADRs state decisions with their technical grounds, not the deliberation history behind them. Temporary ops documents are allowed when clearly marked, but must read as neutral, forward-looking operations content.

Development Commands

# While iterating: lint and format (fixing), typecheck, test across every CPU; `scripts/setup.sh` once
scripts/check.sh --fix        # or one group: scripts/check.sh lint|types|tests
# The evidence a change rests on: the same checks through the harness
scripts/verify drive property-suite

# Test plugin locally
/plugin marketplace add /path/to/manifest-dev
/plugin install manifest-dev@manifest-dev

tests/ asserts properties of the shipped prompts themselves — that gate examples use the current schema, and two host-neutrality invariants over every shipped Markdown file: no file names a host primitive (a plugin qualifier outside an HTML comment, a Claude Code tool name, CLAUDE.md outside a detection or comparison, the word "subagent"), and every skill a shipped skill names ships beside it — never marked metadata.internal, and user-invocable: false when it exists only to be called. Adding a skill, a dimension, or a delegation site can therefore turn the suite red without any Python changing, and that red is the signal working as intended. The same suite fails when dist/codex drifts from the source tree it copies. It also fails when a shipped file points to a section of another (`FILE.md` → *Section*) that no longer exists there under that name.

Read the full file on GitHub · 309 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.

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manifest-dev CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository doodledood/manifest-dev (77 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 8,437 tokens to every session, about $0.0337 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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