ctxharness: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ctxharness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from FlorianBruniaux/ctxharness. It costs 1,228 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for ctxharness, a framework that checks whether an AI project's documentation still matches its code and configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build, test, lint, format, inspect configuration, run documentation scanners, and understand the project's core and command-line packages.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents the repository structure, commands, important files, and architecture rules needed to work safely and check documentation drift.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is FlorianBruniaux/ctxharness's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ctxharness 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 ctxharness configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

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Opus 5 $0.00614 $0.00614
Sonnet 5 $0.00246 $0.00246
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Measured 7d ago against content hash 4beb433d33ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ctxharness 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 7d 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 · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ctxharness — AI Agent Instructions

Framework for detecting AI documentation drift (L1/L2/L3 context engineering testing).

Repository structure

packages/
├── core/        @florianbruniaux/ctxharness-core — lib (extractors, scanners, runner, reporter)
└── cli/         ctxharness — CLI binary (commander)
action.yml       GitHub Action wrapper
templates/       Husky hooks + CI workflow templates

Commands

pnpm build           # compile all packages
pnpm test            # vitest (164 tests)
pnpm test:watch      # watch mode
pnpm lint            # tsc --noEmit
pnpm fmt             # prettier --write

Key files

File Purpose
packages/core/src/config.ts Zod schema — .ctxharness.yml format
packages/core/src/extractors/index.ts 20 extractors (ground truth from code)
packages/core/src/scanners/index.ts 15 scanners (find mentions in docs)
packages/core/src/runner.ts Orchestrates run, returns RunResult
packages/core/src/reporter.ts text / json / gha output formats
packages/core/src/trend.ts Trend history — appendTrendRecord, loadTrendHistory, summarizeTrend
packages/core/src/snapshot.ts Snapshot save / load / diff for trend tracking
packages/core/src/populate.ts populateFromConfig + assertionsToYaml — claim→Assertion mapping
packages/core/src/plugin.ts Plugin API — register custom extractors/scanners
packages/cli/src/index.ts CLI entry point (run / check / scan / score / fix / doctor / init / snapshot / diff / trend / populate)
packages/core/src/__tests__/fixtures/ Test fixture files

Architecture rules

  • TypeScript strict + ESM only ("type": "module")
  • All internal imports use .js extension (NodeNext resolution)
  • No any — use unknown + type guards
  • noUncheckedIndexedAccess on — always null-check array access
  • Extractors return string (ground truth value)
  • Scanners return ScanResult[] (one per mention found)
  • New extractor or scanner: add to the union in config.ts + registry in the module

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 7d ago First seen · 115 lines · 1,228 tokens per session scan A 4beb433d33ed

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ctxharness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository FlorianBruniaux/ctxharness (21 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,228 tokens to every session, about $0.0061 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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