helix: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

helix CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from helixml/helix. It costs 16,273 tokens per session, scanned E, original, no licence file.

Claude Code instructions for developing Helix, a private system for running teams of AI agents on dedicated computer environments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Keeping Claude Code work on the helixml/helix project within its development guidelines.
Why use it?
They define the project’s communication, development, Git, and file-handling rules in one place.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 16,273 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 16,273 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan E 4 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
Origin unknown 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 5.1 $0.16273 $0.16273
Opus 5.5 $0.06509 $0.06509
Sonnet 5.5 $0.03255 $0.03255
Haiku 4.5 $0.01627 $0.01627

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1bf9ed3057f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade E, and why

helix CLAUDE.md scanned grade E with 4 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 10d 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.

Harvests environment variableshighData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

**ALWAYS use the Drone MCP tools** (`drone_build_info`, `drone_fetch_logs`, `drone_search_logs`, `drone_tail_logs`, `drone_read_logs`) when they are available. Do NOT try to extract credentials from `.env` files or use r

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

command -v gcc || (sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y gcc libc6-dev)

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

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

- **NEVER** `rm -rf *` or `rm -rf .*` in a git repo

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- When using `curl` or the browser to test, always use `http://localhost:8080`, never `http://api:8080`.
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The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 10d ago Changed · +3 lines · +68 tokens per session 1bf9ed3057f5
  2. 24d ago Changed · +6 lines · +119 tokens per session b3e429aa0f6e
  3. 28d ago Changed · +19 tokens per session 40876968e9cf
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +198 tokens per session 780a78f2a66e
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +108 tokens per session 21cac9eab2c5
  6. 1mo ago Changed · +28 lines · +505 tokens per session f1010a551f7e
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  8. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +65 tokens per session b24a7d277f20
  9. 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines · +228 tokens per session 35210221ce74
  10. 1mo ago First seen · 818 lines · 14,701 tokens per session scan E 45810d387182

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helix CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository helixml/helix (829 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 16,273 tokens to every session, about $0.0651 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it E with 4 findings (harvests environment variables, asks for root, 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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