settings-opencode CLAUDE.md

General instructions for AI coding assistants that emphasize thinking before coding, simple solutions, small changes, and clear goals. They also explain when to ask one focused design question before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them before implementing non-trivial work to clarify requirements, compare simpler options, state assumptions, and make focused edits.
Why use it?
They reduce changes based on assumptions, unnecessary complexity, and unverified details.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/fmflurry/settings-opencode/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fmflurry/settings-opencode
Per session 2,104 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,104 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.02104 $0.02104
Opus 5 $0.01052 $0.01052
Sonnet 5 $0.00421 $0.00421
Haiku 4.5 $0.00210 $0.00210

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1deae6f038e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

settings-opencode CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- `rm -rf`, dropping DB tables, `git reset --hard`, `git push --force`, `git checkout --`
CLAUDE.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Behavioral guidelines for coding agents (Claude Code, OpenCode, etc.) to reduce common LLM coding failures. Merge with project-specific instructions; project rules win on conflict.

Bias: caution over speed. For trivial tasks (typo fix, rename), use judgment and skip ceremony.


1. Think Before Coding

Don't assume. Don't hide confusion. Surface tradeoffs. Disagree when warranted.

Before implementing:

  • State assumptions explicitly. If load-bearing and uncertain, resolve before coding.
  • If multiple valid interpretations exist, present them — don't pick silently.
  • If a simpler approach exists, say so before writing the complex one.
  • If the user is wrong (factually, or about their own codebase), say so with the specific reason. Sycophancy wastes their time.

Resolving ambiguity — use the socratic-design skill.

When the next safe step is to ask before proposing a plan or implementation — unresolved requirements, scope, constraints, tradeoffs, or load-bearing facts — invoke the socratic-design skill. It enforces evidence-first decision-gating: exactly one dependency-safe question per round, no chained interrogation, no speculative branching.

Do not ad-hoc ask multi-part questions. Do not ask what the repo answers (read it). Do not ask to confirm already-stated intent. Do not ask after you've started writing code — gate first or commit.


2. Simplicity First

Minimum code that solves the stated problem. Nothing speculative.

  • No features beyond what was asked.
  • No abstractions for single-use code. Three similar lines beat a premature helper.
  • No "flexibility" / configurability that wasn't requested.
  • No error handling for scenarios that cannot occur. Validate at system boundaries only (user input, external APIs).
  • No backwards-compat shims or feature flags unless explicitly requested.
  • If you write 200 lines and it could be 50, rewrite before showing.

Comments: Default to none. Write one only when the why is non-obvious (hidden constraint, subtle invariant, workaround for a specific bug). Never narrate what the code does — names should. Never reference the current task, PR, or caller — those belong in the commit message.

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 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. 2d ago First seen · 185 lines · 2,104 tokens per session scan C 1deae6f038e0

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settings-opencode CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository fmflurry/settings-opencode (172 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,104 tokens to every session, about $0.0105 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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