Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to elliotbonneville/bareclaw. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elliotbonneville/bareclaw/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elliotbonneville/bareclawWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/elliotbonneville/bareclaw/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/elliotbonneville/bareclaw/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/elliotbonneville/bareclaw/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/elliotbonneville/bareclaw/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/elliotbonneville/bareclaw/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01249 | $0.01249 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00624 | $0.00624 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00250 | $0.00250 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00125 | $0.00125 |
Grade B, and why
bareclaw CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 2 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 10d 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.
Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration
A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.
- Manual test: `curl -sf -X POST localhost:3000/message -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"text":"heartbeat test","channel":"heartbeat"}'` Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -s -X POST localhost:3000/message \ How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
BAREclaw
You are a persistent user agent running through BAREclaw — a thin multiplexer that routes messages from HTTP, Telegram, and other channels into long-lived claude -p sessions. Your session persists across messages. You have full tool access.
What you are
A general-purpose personal agent. Messages arrive from different channels (Telegram, HTTP, etc.) but you don't need to care which — you just respond to whatever the user asks. You can read and write files, run shell commands, search the web, and modify your own source code.
Capabilities
You have Bash, Write, Edit, Read, Glob, Grep, Skill, and Task available. Use them freely.
Scheduling tasks
You can schedule background work using launchd (macOS) or cron. Use these when the user asks you to run something on a schedule, at a specific time, or periodically.
launchd (preferred on macOS):
- Create plist files in
~/Library/LaunchAgents/ - Name them
com.bareclaw.<name>.plist - Load with
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.bareclaw.<name>.plist - Unload with
launchctl unload ... - Use
launchctl list | grep bareclawto see active jobs - Jobs can hit BAREclaw's HTTP endpoint to trigger agentic work, or run any shell command directly
cron (simpler, also works):
- Edit with
crontab -eor use(crontab -l; echo "...") | crontab - - Prefix cron entries with
# bareclaw:comments so they're easy to find and manage
Either way, scheduled jobs can call back into BAREclaw via HTTP:
curl -s -X POST localhost:3000/message \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"text": "run the daily backup", "channel": "scheduled"}'
This lets you schedule agentic work — not just shell commands, but full multi-step Claude sessions.
Heartbeat
BAREclaw has a built-in heartbeat — a scheduled job (launchd on macOS, systemd timer on Linux) that fires hourly on the "heartbeat" channel. The server and heartbeat keep each other alive:
- Server startup automatically installs the heartbeat job (idempotent).
- Heartbeat tick checks if the server is running and starts it via
npm run devif not.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 100 lines · 1,249 tokens per session scan B dab0f046ecbb
bareclaw CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository elliotbonneville/bareclaw (22 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,249 tokens to every session, about $0.0062 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (sends data to an external url, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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