claude-code-config: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-code-config CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from jarrodwatts/claude-code-config. It costs 4,064 tokens per session, scanned B, original, no licence file.

A set of written rules for how Claude Code should handle requests, including checking intent, triggers, request types, and ambiguity.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps guide request classification, trigger checks, ambiguity checks, and other response steps.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent a consistent process for deciding what to do before it acts.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is jarrodwatts/claude-code-config's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-code-config 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 claude-code-config configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jarrodwatts/claude-code-config. 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/jarrodwatts/claude-code-config/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jarrodwatts/claude-code-config

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 4,064 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 4,064 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 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 5.1 $0.04064 $0.04064
Opus 5.5 $0.01626 $0.01626
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00813 $0.00813
Haiku 4.5 $0.00406 $0.00406

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a7f81c2cb03a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

claude-code-config 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 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

- Don't lecture or be preachy
CLAUDE.md · 444 lines

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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.

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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 · 444 lines · 4,064 tokens per session scan B a7f81c2cb03a

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claude-code-config CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jarrodwatts/claude-code-config (1,062 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 4,064 tokens to every session, about $0.0163 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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