gbrain CLAUDE.md

gbrain CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from garrytan/gbrain. It costs 15,012 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for Claude Code, an agent that works on software repositories. It describes GBrain's architecture, purpose, storage options, and where to find further documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Understanding the GBrain codebase, choosing between embedded and hosted database setups, and checking the project's architectural reference map.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent the project's design context and helps it load detailed information only when needed.

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/garrytan/gbrain/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain

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Per session 15,012 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 15,012 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.15012 $0.15012
Opus 5 $0.07506 $0.07506
Sonnet 5 $0.03002 $0.03002
Haiku 4.5 $0.01501 $0.01501

Measured 2d ago against content hash f292a549fd57, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gbrain 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 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

CLAUDE.md · 956 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 956 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

GBrain is a personal knowledge brain and GStack mod for agent platforms. Pluggable engines: PGLite (embedded Postgres via WASM, zero-config default) or Postgres + pgvector

  • hybrid search in a managed Supabase instance. gbrain init defaults to PGLite; suggests Supabase for 1000+ files. GStack teaches agents how to code. GBrain teaches agents everything else: brain ops, signal detection, content ingestion, enrichment, cron scheduling, reports, identity, and access control.

North Star

gbrain aims to be the next Postgres for memory: the most well-tested, widest-coverage, best-for-the-most-at-the-least retrieval + agent memory system for company brains and personal AI, built to serve a billion people. Every feature and every eval is judged against this bar. "gbrain is best" is a WHOLE-SYSTEM claim — proven across the full BrainBench suite (retrieval, longmemeval, calibration, …) — not by any single feature. When scoping an eval, prove the FEATURE delivers value to gbrain users; do not waste it proving that gbrain's particular algorithm beats some other algorithm (a research bake-off, off-mission).

Two organizational axes (read this first)

GBrain knowledge is organized along two orthogonal axes. Users AND agents must understand both, or queries misroute silently.

  • Brain — WHICH DATABASE. Your personal brain is host. You can mount additional brains (team-published, each with their own DB and access policy) via gbrain mounts add (v0.19+). Routing: --brain, GBRAIN_BRAIN_ID, .gbrain-mount dotfile.
  • Source — WHICH REPO INSIDE THE DATABASE. A brain can hold many sources (wiki, gstack, openclaw, essays). Slugs scope per source. Routing: --source, GBRAIN_SOURCE, .gbrain-source dotfile.

Both axes follow the same 6-tier resolution pattern. Read docs/architecture/brains-and-sources.md for topology diagrams (personal, team mount, CEO-class with multiple team brains) and skills/conventions/brain-routing.md for the agent-facing decision table.

Read the full file on GitHub · 956 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 Changed · +4 lines · +131 tokens per session f292a549fd57
  2. 4d ago First seen · 952 lines · 14,881 tokens per session scan A e356a57fc1b8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gbrain CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository garrytan/gbrain (29,539 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 15,012 tokens to every session, about $0.0751 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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