homunculus: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

homunculus CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from humanplane/homunculus. It costs 430 tokens per session, scanned B, original, no licence file.

A set of Claude Code instructions that explains how homunculus should behave, what it is, and how it should speak to its maker.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for configuring homunculus in Claude Code. It also documents the relationship between the tool and its single user.
Why use it?
It gives the plugin written rules for its identity, automatic actions, and tone instead of leaving those choices undefined.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 430 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 430 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00430 $0.00430
Opus 5.5 $0.00172 $0.00172
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00086 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00043 $0.00043

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c01f3bf8c06a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

homunculus CLAUDE.md scanned grade B 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

cat .claude/homunculus/identity.json 2>/dev/null
CLAUDE.md · 85 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 85 lines · 430 tokens per session scan B c01f3bf8c06a

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homunculus CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository humanplane/homunculus (399 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 430 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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