GlanceTerm: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

GlanceTerm CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from jessemaxh/GlanceTerm. It costs 685 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Packaging instructions for building a GlanceTerm macOS disk image, the installable .dmg file for the application. They specify the required build command, versioning options, and checks for included dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when creating development or release .dmg files, choosing release versioning, and checking that Electron dependencies are packaged correctly.
Why use it?
They prevent release packages that appear to build successfully but crash when opened because required files are missing.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Opus 5.5 $0.00274 $0.00274
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00137 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00068 $0.00068

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 52c90956f02f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

GlanceTerm 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 · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GlanceTerm — agent rules

Packaging the macOS .dmg

The only correct command is npm run dmg:mac (= node scripts/build-macos.mjs). It runs the build, prepackages plugins, refreshes app/node_modules via yarn, and ensures the app/node_modules/electron → ../../node_modules/electron symlink — all four steps are load-bearing.

Release vs dev version. A plain npm run dmg:mac stamps a traceable dev version 0.1.0-dev.g<hash>[.dirty] (into the filename AND CFBundleVersion/Short). For an actual release artifact with a clean 0.1.0, set RELEASE=1: RELEASE=1 npm run dmg:mac (a signed build without RELEASE=1 prints a warning).

Do not

  • Do not call electron-builder directly. It silently ships an app.asar with zero node_modules; the resulting .app crashes at launch with Cannot find module 'v8-compile-cache'. The build "succeeds" so the failure isn't caught until a human runs the app.
  • Do not set SKIP_PREPACKAGE=1 for a final/ship build. It is for inner-loop iteration on the Electron shell only. Even with a valid app/node_modules/electron symlink and a fresh (cd app && yarn), the dep walker has been observed to silently bail and ship an asar with zero node_modules. The unconditional prepackage path is the only one verified to produce a runnable .app.
  • Do not "save time" by reusing a previous dist/mac-arm64/ build. If you didn't watch this npm run dmg:mac finish in this session, treat the artifacts as suspect and rebuild.

Self-check

scripts/build-macos.mjs verifies the asar contains v8-compile-cache, keytar, source-map-support, and electron-updater inside its afterPack hook — i.e. before the DMG is assembled. If you see ✖ BROKEN BUILD — app.asar is missing production node_modules, do not retry blindly: re-read the diagnostic, then run the recommended fix.

Why dist/mac-arm64/GlanceTerm.app gets deleted after the build

npm run dmg:mac removes the loose dist/mac-arm64/GlanceTerm.app once the DMG/zip are produced (both artifacts already contain it). This avoids LaunchServices indexing a second GlanceTerm.app next to /Applications/GlanceTerm.app — when both are registered, Launchpad and Spotlight return duplicates and can fail to match the app by name. Set KEEP_DIR_BUILD=1 if you need the unpacked .app for debugging.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 lines

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. 2mo ago First seen · 53 lines · 685 tokens per session scan A 52c90956f02f

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GlanceTerm CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jessemaxh/GlanceTerm (1 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 685 tokens to every session, about $0.0027 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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