hands-on-deck: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

hands-on-deck CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from EveryInc/hands-on-deck. It costs 227 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for the Hands-on Deck plugin and its supporting code and documentation. They require the plugin version to be updated whenever its behavior or shipped guidance changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Making changes to the skill, deck generator, bundled documentation or behavior while keeping plugin metadata and release conventions correct.
Why use it?
They prevent the plugin's version files from getting out of sync with its changes. They also define how to choose a semantic version and format the commit message.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin.

This is EveryInc/hands-on-deck's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on hands-on-deck 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 hands-on-deck configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to EveryInc/hands-on-deck. 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/EveryInc/hands-on-deck/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EveryInc/hands-on-deck

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 227 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 227 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 $0.00227 $0.00227
Opus 5.5 $0.00091 $0.00091
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00045 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00023

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2cdd1946548e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hands-on-deck 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 2mo 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 · 19 lines

What it actually says

Working in this repo

Bump the version on every change to the skill

Any change to the skill — skills/hands-on-deck/SKILL.md, deck.py, the docs it ships, or its behavior — must bump the version in the same PR. Two files carry it and they move together:

  • .claude-plugin/plugin.json → version
  • .claude-plugin/marketplace.json → plugins[0].version

(Leave marketplace.json's top-level metadata.version alone — that's the marketplace's own version, not the plugin's.)

Follow semver and the existing commit convention:

  • Patch (3.0.1 → 3.0.2) — guidance tweaks, small fixes, doc changes.
  • Minor (3.0.0 → 3.1.0) — new capabilities or commands.
  • Major — breaking changes to the CLI or patch format.

Commit message format: hands-on-deck X.Y.Z: <one-line summary of the change>.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 19 lines · 227 tokens per session scan A 2cdd1946548e

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hands-on-deck CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository EveryInc/hands-on-deck (224 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 227 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 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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