claude-crawl: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-crawl CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from hex/claude-crawl. It costs 761 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for documenting a Claude Code work session and restoring its context later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Resuming documented sessions, recording project findings and changes, and keeping scripts, configuration files, and other artifacts organised.
Why use it?
They tell the agent which session files to read and how to track changes, discoveries, summaries, and created files.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is hex/claude-crawl's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-crawl 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 claude-crawl configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 761 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 761 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00761 $0.00761
Opus 5.5 $0.00304 $0.00304
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00152 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00076 $0.00076

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 29324e463762, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-crawl 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 2mo 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.

CLAUDE.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Documentation Protocol

This is a Claude Code session managed by the cs tool. Session metadata lives in the .cs/ directory. The session root is your workspace for project files.

Session Files - READ THESE ON RESUME

When resuming this session, read the following files to restore context:

  1. .cs/summary.md - If exists, read first for previous session overview
  2. .cs/README.md - Session objective, environment, and outcome
  3. .cs/discoveries.md - Recent findings, observations, and ideas
  4. .cs/discoveries.compact.md - If exists, condensed historical findings
  5. .cs/changes.md - Modifications and fixes made
  6. .cs/artifacts/MANIFEST.json - List of tracked artifacts

Note: Historical discoveries are archived to .cs/discoveries.archive.md and condensed into .cs/discoveries.compact.md. Only read the archive if you need full detail on a specific past finding.

Artifact Auto-Tracking

Scripts and configuration files you create are automatically saved to .cs/artifacts/:

  • Scripts: .sh, .bash, .zsh, .py, .js, .ts, .rb, .pl
  • Configs: .conf, .config, .json, .yaml, .yml, .toml, .ini, .env

When you use the Write tool for these file types, they are automatically redirected to the .cs/artifacts/ directory and tracked in MANIFEST.json.

Documentation Discipline

Update the markdown documentation files throughout the session:

  1. Start of session: Fill in .cs/README.md objective and environment
  2. As you work: Update .cs/discoveries.md with findings and .cs/changes.md with modifications
  3. End of session: Complete the .cs/README.md outcome section

Treat these files as a lab notebook - document as you go, not just at the end.

Summary Command

When the session is complete, use the /summary command to generate an intelligent summary of the entire session. This will create a .cs/summary.md file synthesizing all documentation.

Secure Secrets Handling

Sensitive data is automatically detected and stored securely (macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, or encrypted file):

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 2mo ago First seen · 76 lines · 761 tokens per session scan A 29324e463762

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-crawl CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository hex/claude-crawl (1 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 761 tokens to every session, about $0.0030 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 2026-08-31.

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