minimise: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

minimise CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from dosatos/minimise. It costs 1,133 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for the Python package minimise that keep temporary files, test output, plans, and handoff notes in designated folders.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to orient yourself with the latest handoff, create a handoff for the next session, and place temporary work under worklogs or planned documents under docs/plans.
Why use it?
They prevent scratch and generated files from cluttering the repository’s main folder and help sessions resume with context.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.01133 $0.01133
Opus 5.5 $0.00453 $0.00453
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00227 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00113 $0.00113

Measured 25d ago against content hash 8cc13ec42415, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

minimise 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 25d 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 · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Project Settings

Quick Start

Global commands (work everywhere):

/onboard              # Read latest handoff + get oriented
/handoff              # Create session handoff for next time

Or manually:

cat worklogs/handoffs/session-latest.md

Scratch & Generated Files — Keep the Repo Root Clean

NEVER write scratch, test, or generated artifacts to the repo root. They pollute the package. Put them under worklogs/ (gitignored) instead:

  • Throwaway plan YAMLs, sample plans, experiment configs → worklogs/scratch/
  • Test-run output / captured logs → worklogs/ (or pipe to /tmp)
  • Session handoffs → worklogs/handoffs/
  • Working plan docs → docs/plans/*.md (gitignored; only docs/plans/completed/ is tracked)
  • Agent/tool working dirs are local-only and globally ignored

The root must stay limited to real package files (src/, tests/, docs/, packaging, README). If a tool needs a path, point it at worklogs/.

Environment

  • Python: 3.9+
  • Package: minimise (pip install -e .)
  • Entry Point: mini command
  • Tests: pytest tests/ -v
  • Config: ~/.minimise/ (auto-created)

Session Handoff

At end of each session:

cp worklogs/handoffs/HANDOFF_TEMPLATE.md worklogs/handoffs/session-YYYY-MM-DD-HHmm.md
# Fill in: what was done, what's next, how to run, gotchas, current state
ln -sf session-YYYY-MM-DD-HHmm.md worklogs/handoffs/session-latest.md

Next session, read the handoff to get context.

Key Commands

# Orient yourself
cat worklogs/handoffs/session-latest.md

# Run tests
pytest tests/ -v

# Try the tool
mini job new --plan examples/example-plan.yaml
mini job list

# View docs
cat README.md
cat TESTING.md

Build Through mini, Not Inline

Implement features and fixes by running a mini job (or a mini loop for open-ended refinement of one artifact). Author the plan with /minimise:job or /minimise:brainstorm. This dogfoods the tool: every job is a test of mini.

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 25d ago Changed · -1 lines · -23 tokens per session 8cc13ec42415
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 117 lines · 1,156 tokens per session scan A a66eab37e6e2

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minimise CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dosatos/minimise (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,133 tokens to every session, about $0.0045 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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