What is Traceplane CLAUDE.md?

Repository instructions for Traceplane, an MCP server that organizes work as episodes, records, traces, and final artifacts.

Use them to create or continue work episodes, query context, save facts, record steps and exceptions, publish outputs, update status, and link related episodes.

They keep important work evidence and decisions connected instead of leaving them only in a chat transcript.

How jaxxchen003/Traceplane configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jaxxchen003/Traceplane. 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/jaxxchen003/Traceplane/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaxxchen003/Traceplane

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 184 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 184 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00184	$0.00184
Opus 5.5	$0.00074	$0.00074
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00037	$0.00037
Haiku 4.5	$0.00018	$0.00018

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 3a046f957a76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Traceplane 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 2mo 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 · 23 lines

What it actually says

Claude Code Project Guidance

This repository exposes an MCP server for Traceplane.

When working in this project:

Treat Episode as the primary work unit.
Prefer creating a new episode for a new business goal, new deliverable, or new review flow.
Query context before generating a major result.
Record key facts with write_memory.
Record key steps, decisions, and exceptions with append_trace.
Register final outputs with create_artifact.
Update the episode status when the work stage genuinely changes.
Link episodes when the relationship is clear:
- DEPENDS_ON
- REVIEWS
- SUPERSEDES
- CONTINUES
- SPLITS_FROM
- REFERENCES

This system is not a chat log sink. It is a work graph and evidence chain.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 23 lines · 184 tokens per session scan A 3a046f957a76

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Traceplane CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jaxxchen003/Traceplane (35 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 184 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

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Traceplane: Instructions file for Claude Code