ledger: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ledger CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from eternal-roman/ledger. It costs 212 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project-specific instructions for developing Ledger, including its required files, contribution guide, core protocol, and rules for handling money.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding the project instructions, following its development workflow, keeping money operations inside the kernel and artifact, and running ledger verification before shipping.
Why use it?
They show an AI coding agent where the project’s rules live and which checks and safeguards it must follow.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is eternal-roman/ledger's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ledger 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 ledger configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for ledger CLAUDE.md

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/eternal-roman/ledger/claude-md/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/eternal-roman/ledger/claude-md)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/eternal-roman/ledger/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/eternal-roman/ledger/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for ledger CLAUDE.md

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/eternal-roman/ledger/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/eternal-roman/ledger/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 212 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 212 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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 $0.00212 $0.00212
Opus 5.5 $0.00085 $0.00085
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00021

Measured 26d ago against content hash eb8510008112, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ledger 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 26d 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 · 11 lines

What it actually says

Ledger development

Kernel: AGENTS.md, skills/ledger/SKILL.md. Contribute: CONTRIBUTING.md. Protocol: docs/CORE-PROTOCOL.md.

  1. Plan/TDD if those host skills exist.
  2. Money only through the kernel + artifact.
  3. Windows: use the Bash tool (Git Bash) for git/tag/sign/push. From PowerShell, wrap those in .\scripts\with-git-bash.cmd "single-line cmd" and truncate with Select-Object -First/-Last (no head/tail/grep). (pwsh-shell-guard is a Grok skill — not available in Claude Code.)
  4. Before shipping: npm run verify:ledger, then what CI runs: npm run verify:full + npm run eval.

Never bypass invariants.

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. 26d ago Changed · +64 tokens per session eb8510008112
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 11 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A cd2eaaeb5351

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ledger CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository eternal-roman/ledger (1 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 212 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 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.

Related

Other instructions, from other repositories

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 9,715 tokens

next.js AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for vercel/next.js, covering next.js development guide, codebase structure, monorepo overview, core package: packages/next and other important packages.

vercel/next.js · 7,581 tokens

vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md

Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, cache eligibility and rollout and applying the notice (cutover).

microsoft/vscode · 5,262 tokens

langchain AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.

langchain-ai/langchain · 4,680 tokens

deepseek-harness AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness, covering agents.md, pre-stable apis and released session data, repository layout, commands and host sandbox failures.

deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · 4,261 tokens

vscode copilot-instructions.md

Copilot instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code copilot instructions, project overview, root folders, core architecture (src/ folder) and built-in extensions (extensions/ folder).

microsoft/vscode · 2,731 tokens