Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to esneiderbravo/speclaw. 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/esneiderbravo/speclaw/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/esneiderbravo/speclawWrote 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/esneiderbravo/speclaw/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/esneiderbravo/speclaw/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/esneiderbravo/speclaw/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/esneiderbravo/speclaw/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/esneiderbravo/speclaw/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 | $0.01566 | $0.01566 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00626 | $0.00626 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00313 | $0.00313 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00157 | $0.00157 |
Grade A, and why
speclaw 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 16d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md — speclaw Agent Operating Rules
Agent rules for the speclaw repository (a self-contained MCP suite + CLI that turns any repo into a spec-driven, agent-ready project — Foundation, Compass, Lawbook, Cortex; 100% local).
These rules are STRICT. Read this file at the start of every session.
Cross-agent context: AGENTS.md · The law: LAWS.md
Rule 0 — The Law comes first
Read LAWS.md before writing or changing any code. It is the
constitution: it binds the individual standards below. Open the standard that
governs the area you're touching before touching it:
| You're working on… | Read first |
|---|---|
| Anything | docs/standards/base-standards.md |
| Structure / boundaries | docs/standards/architecture.md |
| Backend code | docs/standards/backend-standards.md |
| Frontend code | docs/standards/frontend-standards.md |
| Tests / gates | docs/standards/testing-standards.md |
| Docstrings / API comments | docs/standards/documentation.md |
| Branches / PRs / tickets | docs/standards/conventions.md |
| Any non-trivial change | docs/standards/lawbook.md |
When any instruction conflicts with a standard, the standard wins — and if you believe it is wrong, propose an amendment via a spec change; never silently ignore it.
Rule 1 — Compass first, always
This repo is indexed by Compass, speclaw's local code graph (.speclaw/). For
any question about code — what a symbol is, what it uses, who calls it,
where it lives, how a value flows — call Compass first: compass_find to
locate, compass_explore to read a symbol with its callers and callees (include
blast_radius for what could break, to for a call path), and
compass_diff_context for the context of a diff.
Run compass_index first if the graph is missing. Under Claude Code a
SessionStart hook refreshes an existing index when each session starts.
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.
- 16d ago Changed · +4 lines · +86 tokens per session 402ebb4a197f
- 17d ago Changed · -55 lines · -1,195 tokens per session c1c2aba5ddf9
- 18d ago Changed · +16 lines · +356 tokens per session edfca9c6ca7f
- 24d ago Changed · +47 tokens per session 4b769bf56602
- 1mo ago First seen · 149 lines · 2,272 tokens per session scan A 89622ce82395
speclaw CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository esneiderbravo/speclaw (3 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,566 tokens to every session, about $0.0063 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 2026-08-31.
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