brain-in-the-fish: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

brain-in-the-fish CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from fabio-rovai/brain-in-the-fish. It costs 569 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for evaluating documents by turning their claims into connected knowledge graphs and checking them against evidence. It covers scoring, debate, moderation, reports, and verdicts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing or reviewing the Brain in the Fish project, its document-processing pipeline, scoring system, debate flow, or evidence checks.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent the project’s structure and rules for evidence-based document evaluation, so it can work with the right modules and tools.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is fabio-rovai/brain-in-the-fish's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on brain-in-the-fish 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 brain-in-the-fish configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to fabio-rovai/brain-in-the-fish. 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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabio-rovai/brain-in-the-fish

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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 · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brain in the Fish

Score any document. Prove every claim. The LLM decomposes documents into OWL knowledge graphs, SPARQL rules mine facts from the graph, and a gate verifies the score is consistent with the evidence.

Relationship to open-ontologies

This project depends on open-ontologies as a library (../open-ontologies). It uses the ontology engine (GraphStore, Reasoner, SPARQL) to load and query document argument graphs. It is NOT a fork — it consumes open-ontologies as a dependency.

Module Overview

Module Purpose
types Core evaluation domain types
ingest PDF ingestion and document ontology generation
criteria Evaluation criteria ontology loading/generation
agent Agent cognitive model and spawning
scoring Independent scoring engine with ReACT loop
debate Multi-round structured debate orchestrator
moderation Consensus moderation and convergence detection
report Evaluation report generation
gate Verdict system — CONFIRMED/FLAGGED/REJECTED based on evidence
rules SPARQL rule mining over argument graphs (8 rules)
argument_graph OWL Turtle → typed argument graph with structural metrics
server MCP server exposing eval_* and eds_* tools
snn Deprecated — legacy scoring, use gate module instead

Pipeline

  1. LLM reads document → produces OWL Turtle (typed nodes with source quotes)
  2. Turtle loads into GraphStore → structural metrics extracted via SPARQL
  3. SPARQL INSERT rules derive facts (StrongClaim, UnsupportedClaim, etc.)
  4. Gate compares LLM holistic score against structural + quality evidence
  5. Verdict: CONFIRMED / FLAGGED / REJECTED

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 lines

Changes

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  1. 11d ago First seen · 57 lines · 569 tokens per session scan A a3dec5f88298

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brain-in-the-fish CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository fabio-rovai/brain-in-the-fish (87 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 569 tokens to every session, about $0.0028 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 2026-08-30.

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