effective-claude-code CLAUDE.md

A set of Claude Code instructions describing an effective approach to the tool, including its guide, audience, repository layout, and chapter order.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when Claude Code needs to build or edit the effective-claude-code guide while following its documented structure.
Why use it?
It gives Claude Code context for working with that book and its source repository.

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/jakelin/effective-claude-code/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JakeLin/effective-claude-code
Per session 704 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 704 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00704 $0.00704
Opus 5 $0.00352 $0.00352
Sonnet 5 $0.00141 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00070 $0.00070

Measured 2d ago against content hash e4289c2cf4d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

effective-claude-code 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 2d 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 · 65 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. 2d ago First seen · 65 lines · 704 tokens per session scan A e4289c2cf4d4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

effective-claude-code CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository JakeLin/effective-claude-code (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 704 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 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.