emberglow-keyboard CLAUDE.md

emberglow-keyboard CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from emberglow-dev/emberglow-keyboard. It costs 1,647 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Emberglow, software that controls the lights on a Keychron Q10 keyboard based on Claude activity. They cover its command-line and web interfaces and document two versions of the keyboard's HID lighting protocol.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing keyboard control, lighting states, Claude Code hooks, signed webhooks, the Flask server, or the Emberglow command-line tool.
Why use it?
They call out hardware behavior that can make a failed command look successful, such as echoed packets that the keyboard ignores. This helps contributors preserve the required version handshake and correct packet format.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/emberglow-dev/emberglow-keyboard/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emberglow-dev/emberglow-keyboard

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Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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Opus 5 $0.00823 $0.00823
Sonnet 5 $0.00329 $0.00329
Haiku 4.5 $0.00165 $0.00165

Measured 4d ago against content hash 149db34231b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

emberglow-keyboard 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 4d 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 · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — working in the Emberglow repo

Guidance for Claude (and Claude Code) working in this codebase. Read this first.

What this is

Emberglow lights a Keychron Q10 based on Claude activity, over the VIA protocol (QMK raw HID). Two front ends share one lighting engine:

  • CLI (emberglow set <state>) — called by Claude Code hooks.
  • Flask server (emberglow serve) — receives Anthropic Managed Agents webhooks, verifies their HMAC signature, and drives the same engine.

Hard-won knowledge (read before touching keyboard.py)

The VIA lighting protocol has two incompatible dialects, and the Q10 speaks the older one. Always handshake the version first — never assume the dialect.

  • v3 (protocol version ≥ 11): set = [0x07, channel, value_id, data…], value IDs 1–4, RGB-matrix channel 3.
  • v2 (protocol version ≤ 10 — the Q10 reports 10): set = [0x07, value_id, data…], value IDs 0x80–0x83, no channel byte.

Both use command byte 0x07, and the firmware echoes every packet back even when it ignores it. So sending v3 packets to a v2 board looks perfect — clean echo, no error — while doing nothing, and reads return 0 on a visibly-lit board. The telltales that cracked this: reads were [0] on a glowing keyboard (brightness can't be 0 on a lit board), and the version line said 10 when v3 would be 11+.

keyboard.detect_dialect() reads version command 0x01 (the one packet identical across all VIA versions), picks v2/v3 framing, and _verify() does one read to confirm the reply echoes the request header. This runs before every command via Keyboard.apply(). Do not bypass it with hardcoded framing — that is the exact bug the next contributor would reintroduce. The original relay.py POC is v3-only and does not work on this board; it's kept for reference only.

A second trap: a probe that only changes the effect index is nearly invisible against whatever the board was already doing. emberglow probe forces full-brightness red on every step so each effect change is unmistakable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. 4d ago First seen · 126 lines · 1,647 tokens per session scan A 149db34231b0

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emberglow-keyboard CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository emberglow-dev/emberglow-keyboard (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,647 tokens to every session, about $0.0082 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 2026-08-31.

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