Arkana: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Arkana CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from JameZUK/Arkana. It costs 9,744 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A development guide for Arkana, a server that gives AI clients tools for examining Windows, Linux, and macOS binary files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Developing and testing binary-analysis features, including parsers, malware-analysis integrations, authentication, caching, and the web dashboard.
Why use it?
It explains the project’s structure, optional dependencies, security checks, caching, and testing so contributors can change the server safely.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

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Nothing to install: this file belongs to JameZUK/Arkana. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JameZUK/Arkana

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Opus 5 $0.04872 $0.04872
Sonnet 5 $0.01949 $0.01949
Haiku 4.5 $0.00974 $0.00974

Measured 9d ago against content hash fae749dfa638, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Arkana 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 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.

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 · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arkana Development Guide

What is Arkana?

Arkana is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server exposing 308 binary analysis tools to AI clients. It supports PE, ELF, and Mach-O formats with integrations for angr, capa, FLOSS, YARA, Binary Refinery, Qiling, Speakeasy, oletools, and GoReSym.

Project Structure

arkana/                  # Main package
├── main.py             # Entry point, arg parsing, server startup
├── state.py            # Thread-safe AnalyzerState + StateProxy (per-session isolation)
├── config.py           # Central re-export hub (constants, imports, state, cache)
├── constants.py        # Pure constants (response limits, timeouts, URLs)
├── imports.py          # Optional library imports with *_AVAILABLE flags
├── cache.py            # Gzip-compressed LRU disk cache (~/.arkana/cache/)
├── auth.py             # Bearer token ASGI middleware
├── integrity.py        # Pre-parse file integrity checks (PE/ELF/Mach-O)
├── utils.py            # ReDoS-safe regex, safe_slice, safe_env_int
├── tool_registry.py    # Tool module groups and startup registration
├── parsers/            # PE/FLOSS/capa/YARA/strings parsers
├── dashboard/          # Web dashboard (Starlette + htmx + Jinja2)
│   ├── app.py          # ASGI app factory, routes, auth, SSE events
│   ├── state_api.py    # Data extraction layer (reads AnalyzerState for dashboard views)
│   ├── __init__.py     # Package init
│   ├── templates/      # Jinja2 templates (overview, functions, callgraph, sections, strings, timeline, notes)
│   │   └── partials/   # htmx partials (_global_status, _overview_stats, _task_list, _timeline_entry)
│   └── static/         # CSS (CRT theme), JS (htmx, Cytoscape.js, strings.js), logo
├── resource_monitor.py  # Process-level RSS/CPU monitoring (psutil daemon thread)
    └── mcp/                # MCP tool modules (308 tools across 67 files)
    ├── server.py       # MCP server instance, tool_decorator, response truncation
    ├── _*.py           # Private helpers (angr, input, format, progress, refinery, rename, search)
    └── tools_*.py      # Tool modules grouped by domain
tests/                  # Unit tests (pytest)
tests/integration/      # Integration tests (requires running server)
.claude/skills/         # Claude Code analysis and learning skills

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 lines

Changes

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Arkana CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository JameZUK/Arkana (218 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9,744 tokens to every session, about $0.0487 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 2026-08-30.

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