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CLAUDE.md

jjj CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from doug/jjj. It costs 2,724 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for Jujutsu Juggler, an offline-first project-management and code-review system built around Jujutsu, a version-control tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing the Rust CLI or VS Code extension, running tests, compiling, formatting, linting, or packaging the project.
Why use it?
They explain the project’s architecture and the commands needed to build and test its Rust command-line tool and editor extension.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Grade A, and why

jjj 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 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.

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 · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

jjj (Jujutsu Juggler) is a distributed project management and code review system built for Jujutsu (jj). It implements Popperian epistemology (Problems → Solutions → Critiques) as a Kanban-style workflow with no central server, no database, and offline-first operation.

Key insight: jj's stable Change IDs persist across rebases/squashes, allowing metadata to survive history rewrites that would orphan Git commit-based metadata.

Build Commands

Rust CLI

cargo build                    # Debug build
cargo build --release          # Release build
cargo test                     # Run all tests
cargo test <test_name>         # Run specific test
cargo run -- <command>         # Execute jjj command
cargo fmt                      # Format code
cargo clippy                   # Lint

VS Code Extension

cd vscode
npm install
npm run compile                # TypeScript compilation
npm run watch                  # Watch mode
npm run test                   # Run mocha tests
npm run lint                   # ESLint
npm run package                # Create .vsix
npm run install-ext            # Install locally

Documentation

cd docs-site && npm run dev    # Serve locally
cd docs-site && npm run build  # Build docs

Architecture

Core Model

  • Problems: Things to solve (can form DAG via parent_id). Support tags for categorization.
  • Solutions: Conjectures attached to jj Change IDs (not commit hashes). Support tags for categorization.
  • Critiques: Error-elimination feedback that blocks solution approval
  • Findings: Evidence measured about a problem. No approval state — a measurement is cited or superseded, never accepted. Solutions and critiques cite findings via --cites.
  • Milestones: Time-based goals grouping problems

Storage: Shadow Graph

All metadata lives in an orphaned jjj bookmark, never touching the working copy. Sync via jj git push -b jjj.

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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jjj CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository doug/jjj (13 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,724 tokens to every session, about $0.0109 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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