hades-gate CLAUDE.md

hades-gate CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from IGPenguin/hades-gate. It costs 582 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Claude Code, a coding assistant that works with files in a software repository. They describe Hades Gate, its project structure, its /hades skill, and how sessions are recorded.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide Claude Code through Hades Gate projects, including proposal creation, coding philosophy, legacy tooling, and session-history logging.
Why use it?
It gives the coding assistant the background and file locations needed to work consistently in the repository. It also keeps a history of completed /hades sessions.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IGPenguin/hades-gate

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Grade A, and why

hades-gate 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 5d ago.

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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 · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 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.

What This Is

Hades Gate is a meta-framework for turning ideas into code. It provides the Architect role: analyzing intent, understanding project context, and proposing six distinct implementation paths (The Hexalogy) plus a synthesis.

The primary delivery mechanism is a Claude Code skill (/hades). The legacy path uses a Python CLI + Gemini API - documented in GEMINI.md.

Repo Structure

Path Purpose
claude-skill/skills/hades/SKILL.md The /hades skill definition
install-skill.sh One-command installer for the skill
.hades/papyrus.md Proposal template (source of truth for the repo)
.hades/manifesto.md Coding philosophy (source of truth for the repo)
hades.py Legacy Gemini CLI catalyst

History Logging

After each /hades run, the skill automatically saves a session record to .hades/YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM-slug.md in the current working directory, where slug is a 3-word-max summary of the intent. The file captures the user's inputs (intent, scope, constraints) and the full Hexalogy output.

The skill also ensures .hades/ is added to .gitignore on first use - history files are local and should never be committed.

The Skill

The /hades skill is installed to ~/.claude/plugins/cache/local/hades/1.0.0/ and reads its user-tweakable config from:

  • ~/.claude/hades/papyrus.md - proposal output structure
  • ~/.claude/hades/manifesto.md - quality standards

When modifying the skill, update claude-skill/skills/hades/SKILL.md in this repo. Commit and push, then re-run install-skill.sh to pick up changes (the installer pulls from GitHub).

The Proposal Format (Papyrus)

Every ignition produces 6 core paths (The Hexalogy) plus one synthesis:

  • Option A - The Spark: minimal friction, immediate result
  • Option B - The Weave: leveraging existing infrastructure
  • Option C - The Apex: high quality, clean architecture
  • Option D - The Echo: proven standard patterns
  • Option E - The Rift: experimental, outside-the-box
  • Option F - The Chimera: flashy results, pragmatic interior
  • The Synthesis: curated convergence of the strongest elements

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 lines

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hades-gate CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository IGPenguin/hades-gate (1 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 582 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 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.