Root_Operator CLAUDE.md

A repository instruction file for Root Operator, a macOS desktop AI assistant built with Electron and React. It documents development commands, native dependencies, and local app startup.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with developing, testing, rebuilding, and packaging the Root Operator desktop application.
Why use it?
It tells coding agents how to install dependencies, rebuild native modules, run the app with live updates, and create macOS builds. This avoids guessing which commands or development servers to use.

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/hjertefolger/root_operator/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hjertefolger/Root_Operator
Per session 2,325 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,325 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% 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 $0.02325 $0.02325
Opus 5 $0.01162 $0.01162
Sonnet 5 $0.00465 $0.00465
Haiku 4.5 $0.00232 $0.00232

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6416a9939e4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Root_Operator 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

This is a copy

94% identical to Root_Operator AGENTS.md — 6 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 · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

Root Operator is a personal AI assistant for macOS powered by Claude Code channels. It combines chat, terminal access, identity-aware workspace bootstrapping, and secure remote access into a single desktop product.

Build & Development Commands

# Install dependencies (triggers automatic native rebuild)
npm install

# Start app in development mode with HMR (recommended)
npm run dev:app

# Start app without HMR (loads built files)
npm start

# Rebuild native modules (node-pty, keytar) after node/electron version changes
npm run rebuild

# Build for macOS (unsigned, for local development)
npm run build:unsigned

# Build for macOS (requires Apple Developer credentials)
npm run build

Development with HMR

The npm run dev:app command starts:

  1. Vite dev server for renderer on port 5174 (tray app HMR)
  2. Vite dev server for client on port 5175 (PWA client HMR)
  3. Electron loading from the dev servers

Changes to React components are reflected immediately:

  • src/renderer/ - Tray app components (hot reload)
  • src/client/ - PWA client components (hot reload via proxy)

Architecture Overview

Process Architecture

Main Process (main.js):

  • Electron main process that manages the app window, tray, and system integration
  • HTTP server (port 22000) that serves PWA client and handles WebSocket connections
  • Cloudflare tunnel manager that creates public URLs via cloudflared package
  • PTY (pseudoterminal) manager using node-pty for shell process spawning
  • E2E encryption layer using ECDH key exchange + AES-256-GCM
  • Secure credential storage via keytar (macOS Keychain)

Renderer Process (src/renderer/):

  • React + Tailwind + shadcn/ui components
  • Entry point: renderer.html (built to ui/dist/renderer.html)
  • Main app: src/renderer/App.jsx
  • Components in src/renderer/components/ (MainView, SettingsView, etc.)
  • Communicates with main process via IPC (see preload.js for channel whitelist)

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 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 First seen · 231 lines · 2,325 tokens per session scan A 6416a9939e4f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Root_Operator CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository hjertefolger/Root_Operator (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,325 tokens to every session, about $0.0116 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to Root_Operator AGENTS.md, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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