claude-transcript-plugin CLAUDE.md

Project instructions for the Claude Code Transcript Plugin, an add-on that saves Claude Code conversations as readable Markdown files before context compaction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing or reviewing the transcript-saving plugin, including its hooks, Go converter, platform launchers, and Markdown templates.
Why use it?
They give contributors a shared description of the project’s files, architecture, conventions, and templates, making the codebase easier to maintain.

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/idisposable/claude-transcript-plugin/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IDisposable/claude-transcript-plugin
Per session 905 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 905 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00905 $0.00905
Opus 5 $0.00452 $0.00452
Sonnet 5 $0.00181 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00090 $0.00090

Measured yesterday against content hash f735b4f19d19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-transcript-plugin 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 yesterday.

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 · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Transcript Plugin

Project Overview

A Claude Code plugin that saves readable Markdown transcripts of sessions before context compaction. It hooks into the PreCompact event, reads the session's JSONL transcript, and writes a formatted Markdown file.

Architecture

  • .claude-plugin/plugin.json — Plugin manifest (name, version, metadata)
  • .claude-plugin/marketplace.json — Marketplace catalog for distribution
  • hooks/hooks.json — Registers a PreCompact hook that runs the converter via platform shim
  • scripts/run — Unix shim that detects OS/arch and executes the correct binary
  • scripts/run.cmd — Windows shim for native Windows environments
  • cmd/save-transcript/main.go — Go entry point (reads hook stdin, writes Markdown)
  • internal/transcript/ — Core conversion logic (JSONL parsing, message classification, template rendering)
  • internal/transcript/templates/*.tmpl — Embedded base templates (structural blocks: header, user, assistant, etc.)
  • internal/transcript/templates/tools/*.tmpl — Embedded tool templates (one file per tool, modular/overridable)
  • bin/ — Platform-specific compiled binaries (gitignored, built by CI)
  • skills/save-transcript/SKILL.md — Manual /transcript-saver:save-transcript skill for on-demand use

Key Conventions

  • Only plugin.json and marketplace.json go inside .claude-plugin/ — all other files live at the repo root
  • The hook command uses ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} so paths resolve correctly when installed from the plugin cache
  • The shim scripts detect OS/arch at runtime to support WSL and cross-platform use
  • The converter always exits 0 on error so it never blocks compaction
  • Go 1.26.1+ with no external dependencies (stdlib only)
  • Output goes to ~/.claude/transcripts/ by default, overridable via config/env/flag
  • All settings follow: CLI flag > env var > project config > user config > defaults
  • Config files: <project>/.claude/transcript-saver.json and ~/.claude/transcript-saver.json

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. yesterday First seen · 62 lines · 905 tokens per session scan A f735b4f19d19

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-transcript-plugin CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository IDisposable/claude-transcript-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 905 tokens to every session, about $0.0045 per session on Opus 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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