cairn: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

cairn CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from isaacriehm/cairn. It costs 11 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A Claude Code entrypoint that points the assistant to AGENTS.md, which contains the repository's persistent project guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Keeping coding work aligned with the repository's established instructions.
Why use it?
It gives the assistant one defined place to find the project's ground rules.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 11 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 11 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00011 $0.00011
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00004
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00002
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00001

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1d8c6d2982ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cairn 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 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.

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 · 4 lines

What it actually says

Claude Code entrypoint

@AGENTS.md

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 · 4 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 1d8c6d2982ca

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cairn CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository isaacriehm/cairn (6 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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