layerkit: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

layerkit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from hariharapanigrahy/layerkit. It costs 385 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of layerkit AGENTS.md, MIT.

Project-specific instructions for working on Layerkit, an integration codebase with vendor clients and contract updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when coordinating Layerkit vendor integrations, healing API contracts, editing client code, or preparing release hardening work.
Why use it?
They provide evidence-based rules for changing integrations and require outcome checkpoints before implementation.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for layerkit CLAUDE.md

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/hariharapanigrahy/layerkit/claude-md/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/hariharapanigrahy/layerkit/claude-md)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/hariharapanigrahy/layerkit/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/hariharapanigrahy/layerkit/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for layerkit CLAUDE.md

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/hariharapanigrahy/layerkit/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/hariharapanigrahy/layerkit/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 385 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 385 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00385 $0.00385
Opus 5.5 $0.00154 $0.00154
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00077 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00038 $0.00038

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 33efd8b072d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

layerkit CLAUDE.md scanned grade A 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Evidence-first (OpenAPI, docs, curl, code); residual human only; no LLM on track().
Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to layerkit AGENTS.md — 20 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

CLAUDE.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

Layerkit

Evidence-first (OpenAPI, docs, curl, code); residual human only; no LLM on track().

Intentional entry only. Use layerkit: … (or /layerkit / @layerkit) for vendor integrate / contract heal, then layerkit help → agent start → agent next (skill packet). Do not freestyle pin-only full integrates. Do not apply Layerkit rails to unrelated tasks.

Master skill: layerkit-orchestrate-integration. Multi-agent coordination lives in the layerkit-multi-agent skill; there is no deterministic agent multi CLI.

Contract update: use layerkit agent start --mode heal --vendor …, research evidence, then edit client source/tests directly with layerkit-source-edit-client.

Checker-assist is read-only. Promote only after quality gates.

Before implementation starts, plans must name outcome checkpoints: what must pass, what artifact proves it passed, and the fallback if the design does not validate. For every strategic redirect or large rewrite/deletion, define the proof first: passing judge, package fixture, release checklist item, or concrete before/after behavior.

Keep test backing proportional to implementation size. Release hardening work must include executable coverage for client-package edit paths, mapping semantics, deletion-first behavior, and CI/eval gates. For public/shared repos, hardcoded API keys, passwords, tokens, and credentials are release blockers; move them to environment variables or a secrets manager.

Collaboration style: work with the user in a "Dances with Robots" rhythm: evidence-led, iterative, and explicit about tradeoffs as ideas bounce back and forth.

Shared AI working rules: AI_WORKING_RULES.md.

Docs: layerkit cheatsheet, skills/*/SKILL.md. CLI: layerkit / npx layerkit.

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 · 22 lines · 385 tokens per session scan A 33efd8b072d3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

layerkit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository hariharapanigrahy/layerkit (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 385 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 88% identical to layerkit AGENTS.md, differing in 20 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Related

Other instructions, from other repositories

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 9,715 tokens

next.js AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for vercel/next.js, covering next.js development guide, codebase structure, monorepo overview, core package: packages/next and other important packages.

vercel/next.js · 7,581 tokens

vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md

Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, cache eligibility and rollout and applying the notice (cutover).

microsoft/vscode · 5,262 tokens

langchain AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.

langchain-ai/langchain · 4,680 tokens

vscode copilot-instructions.md

Copilot instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code copilot instructions, project overview, root folders, core architecture (src/ folder) and built-in extensions (extensions/ folder).

microsoft/vscode · 2,731 tokens

deepseek-harness AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness, covering agents.md, pre-stable apis and released session data, repository layout, commands and host sandbox failures.

deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · 4,261 tokens