claude-grep: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-grep CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from evoleinik/claude-grep. It costs 1,971 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line search tool for finding text and meaning in Claude Code session history, the saved record of earlier conversations with the coding assistant.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps search one or more projects by regular expression or meaning, filter for prompts, show nearby context, return JSON, and build or update a local search index.
Why use it?
It makes old prompts and answers easier to locate, including when the search uses related wording rather than the exact original words.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is evoleinik/claude-grep's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-grep 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 claude-grep configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to evoleinik/claude-grep. 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/evoleinik/claude-grep/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/evoleinik/claude-grep

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 1,971 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,971 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 $0.01971 $0.01971
Opus 5.5 $0.00788 $0.00788
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00394 $0.00394
Haiku 4.5 $0.00197 $0.00197

Measured 27d ago against content hash ed06c50e7b79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-grep 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 27d 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 · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

claude-grep

Search Claude Code session history.

Quick reference

claude-grep "pattern"              # regex search
claude-grep -s "meaning query"     # semantic search
claude-grep --json "x" | jq .      # JSON output
claude-grep -p -C 2 "error"        # prompts only, with context
claude-grep -a -d 30 "deploy"      # all projects, 30 days
claude-grep --index                # build/update index
claude-grep --index --status       # index stats

Build

go build -o claude-grep .
go install .
go vet ./...
scripts/coverage.sh     # all tests + total coverage; exit 1 under 80%. CI runs this

Tests

  • *_test.go beside each file are unit tests. e2e*_test.go build the real binary and drive it in a sandbox (newSandbox): temp $HOME, fixture transcripts, fake ollama. A new flag, subcommand or exit path gets an e2e case, because main() and the run* entry points call os.Exit and cannot be reached from a unit test.
  • Fixture transcripts get an hour-old mtime (sandbox.session). The search skips the newest file when it is under 60s old, so a just-written fixture silently vanishes.
  • The bench drops any project whose name contains claude-grep. Bench fixtures use their own project name, never one derived from the temp dir.
  • Coverage of the child binary reaches the profile because go test -cover sets GOCOVERDIR for the test process; the harness builds the child with -cover.
  • CI uploads to Codecov over OIDC with fail_ci_if_error: true. It was false, and every upload was rejected for seven months while CI stayed green.

Architecture

File Purpose
main.go CLI flags, routing
search.go JSONL parsing, regex search, concurrent file processing
bm25.go BM25 query-focused paragraph compression
format.go Terminal (colored) and JSON output
index.go Ollama embedding, incremental indexer
store.go Gob-based vector store on disk
vector.go Cosine similarity, semantic search
bench.go Session recovery bench: rank scoring + regex-baseline gate

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. 27d ago Changed · +16 lines · +269 tokens per session ed06c50e7b79
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +81 lines · +1,053 tokens per session ac4f19082b88
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 65 lines · 649 tokens per session scan A 9b37e16f33ec

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claude-grep CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository evoleinik/claude-grep (2 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,971 tokens to every session, about $0.0079 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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