4x: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

4x CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ggwhite/4x. It costs 1,973 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for 4x, a multi-role AI development loop that coordinates coding agents through defined phases. They describe its command-line tool, architecture, state machine, and .4x workspace files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when building, testing, linting, inspecting, or extending the 4x CLI and its agent runners.
Why use it?
They give agents the rules and structure needed to work consistently within a 4x project.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is ggwhite/4x's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on 4x 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 4x configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ggwhite/4x. 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/ggwhite/4x

Made for: Claude Code.

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4x 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 1mo ago.

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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 · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@.4x/plugins/CLAUDE.md

4x — Multi-Role AI Development Loop

Quick Start

make build          # 編譯 CLI 至 bin/4x
make test           # go test ./...
make lint           # go vet + gofmt + golangci-lint

Architecture

三層架構,CLI 層不呼叫 LLM:

cmd/4x/             CLI entry point (Cobra),每個 subcommand 一個檔案
internal/
  protocol/          .4x/ 檔案格式、Workspace 讀寫、型別定義
  state/             狀態機(phase transition)
  guard/             Guardrail 檢查(scope/baseline/required files)
  orchestrator/      Run loop 核心編排邏輯
  runner/            Runner 介面與子程序執行
  batch/             Batch DAG 排程
  feature/           Feature CRUD 操作
  doctor/            專案健康檢查
  prompt/            Role prompt 模板渲染
  gitops/            Git 操作(diff/worktree/changed files)
  server/            SSE + REST server(Dashboard 用)
  ...                (其餘:enrich, envutil, evolution, health, hook, learning, logging, mcp, schemasync, vcshub, verify)
plugins/
  claude-code/       Claude Code runner instructions
  gemini/            Gemini CLI runner instructions
  codex/             Codex CLI runner instructions
  agy/               Antigravity CLI runner instructions
  copilot/           Copilot CLI runner instructions
  cursor/            Cursor rules (.cursorrules)
  opencode/          OpenCode runner instructions
  embed.go           go:embed 將 plugin 檔嵌入 binary
dashboard/
  macos/             Swift native app
schemas/             JSON Schema(state/event/feature)
templates/           Role prompt templates(.md.tmpl)
docs/                權威設計規格(見 docs/AGENTS.md 索引)

State Machine

init → designing → design-reviewing → coding → reviewing → testing → deep-reviewing → fixing ─┐
            ↑              ↓              ↑        ↓          ↓↺          ↓                     ↓
            ↑         designing(FAIL)     ↑    amending ←─────┴───────────┤                 accepting
            ↑                             ↑        ↓                      ↓                     ↓
            └─────────────────────────────┴────────┴──────────────────────┘              pending-review
                                                                                              ↓
                                                                                            done
any → blocked / needs-attention / done / abandoned(done 和 abandoned 為不可逆終態)

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 1mo ago First seen · 169 lines · 1,973 tokens per session scan A 540d005c8f18

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4x CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ggwhite/4x (34 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,973 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 2026-08-30.

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