What is claude-local-starter CLAUDE.md?

Repository instructions for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, describing the project files, installer, and global configuration. They explain how the starter setup is copied to a machine.

Use them when installing or maintaining the Claude Code starter environment, auditing token-related settings, or enabling and disabling the repository's safe auto-approval mode.

They give the assistant a clear map of the repository and prevent confusion about which files control the installed configuration. They also document that running the installer overwrites the global setup.

How indranildchandra/claude-local-starter configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to indranildchandra/claude-local-starter. 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/indranildchandra/claude-local-starter/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/indranildchandra/claude-local-starter

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 3,023 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 3,023 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 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.03023	$0.03023
Opus 5	$0.01511	$0.01511
Sonnet 5	$0.00605	$0.00605
Haiku 4.5	$0.00302	$0.00302

Measured 9d ago against content hash e330c101e9cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

claude-local-starter 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 9d 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.

| `settings.json` | Source of truth for plugins, env vars, MCP servers, hooks — merged into `~/.claude/settings.json` |

CLAUDE.md · 229 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 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.

Note: install.sh copies claude-md-master/CLAUDE.md to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md on every run (always overwrites). The "Global Claude Code Configuration" section below is kept in sync manually — edit claude-md-master/CLAUDE.md to change what gets installed globally.

Repository Overview

claude-local-starter is a single-script bootstrap installer that replicates a full Claude Code environment onto any machine. It is not a library or application — the primary deliverable is install.sh.

Key Files

File	Purpose
`install.sh`	The installer — idempotent, safe to re-run
`scripts/token-audit.sh`	Snapshot + restore extension states for token cost measurement
`scripts/enable-safe-yolo.sh`	Add auto-approve permissions + `acceptEdits` mode to a repo
`scripts/disable-safe-yolo.sh`	Remove safe-yolo permissions from a repo
`scripts/config/claude-safe-yolo-permissions.txt`	Single source of truth for safe-yolo allow/deny/defaultMode
`claude-md-master/CLAUDE.md`	Source of truth for `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` — always overwrites on install
`settings.json`	Source of truth for plugins, env vars, MCP servers, hooks — merged into `~/.claude/settings.json`
`commands/`	Slash command definitions synced to `~/.claude/commands/`
`skills/`	Custom skill directories synced to `~/.claude/skills/`
`claude-local-starter.html`	Visual dashboard — open from `~/.claude/` after install (data is injected there)

Installer Modes

bash install.sh                  # safe update — merges, never overwrites
bash install.sh --clean-install  # full overwrite from repo (backs up first)
bash install.sh --dry-run        # preview all actions, no changes written

What install.sh Does (in order)

Pre-flight checks (git, node, npm, python3, bun)
Interactive prompts — preserve CLAUDE.md? preserve MCP/plugin/skill states? (update mode only)
Backup mutable components (only on --clean-install)
Create ~/.claude/ directory structure
Install/merge settings.json
Install CLAUDE.md from claude-md-master/ (always overwrites)
Install skills via npx skills add (patched with disable-model-invocation: true)
Clone/update blader/humanizer skill
Install uipro-cli globally
Install LSP binaries (typescript-language-server, pyright, gopls, rust-analyzer, jdtls) — pyright-lsp and typescript-lsp enabled by default; others installed but disabled
Install @playwright/cli, run playwright-cli install --skills, install Chromium
Register MCP servers via npx gitnexus setup
Write ~/.claude/plugin_commands.sh (manual paste into Claude Code)
Create ~/.claude-work/ structure and templates
Write shell aliases/functions to ~/.zshrc / ~/.bashrc
Sync commands/, skills/, HTML dashboard → ~/.claude/ (with settings.json + CLAUDE.md injected into dashboard)

Read the full file on GitHub · 229 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.

9d ago First seen · 229 lines · 3,023 tokens per session scan B e330c101e9cc

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claude-local-starter CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository indranildchandra/claude-local-starter (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,023 tokens to every session, about $0.0151 per session on Opus 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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