Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to jmcentire/kindex. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmcentire/kindex/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmcentire/kindexWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jmcentire/kindex/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jmcentire/kindex/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jmcentire/kindex/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jmcentire/kindex/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jmcentire/kindex/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.03212 | $0.03212 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01285 | $0.01285 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00642 | $0.00642 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00321 | $0.00321 |
Grade A, and why
kindex CLAUDE.md scanned grade A 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 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -s "https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=io.github.wandercom/kindex&version=latest" \ How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Kindex — Knowledge Graph for AI-Assisted Workflows
Kindex is a persistent knowledge graph that indexes conversations, projects, and intellectual work so that Claude Code never starts a session blind. The CLI is kin.
Running Tests
Install Python test dependencies (pip install -e ".[dev,mcp]") and Node.js 24 or newer.
Node executes the modern Claude adapter contract tests; it is not a Kindex package dependency.
# All tests
pytest tests/ -v
# Specific module
pytest tests/test_cli.py -v
pytest tests/test_hooks.py -v
pytest tests/test_store.py -v
# With coverage
pytest tests/ --cov=kindex --cov-report=term-missing
The CI workflow runs full pytest with Python 3.12, Node.js 24, and .[dev,mcp] on pull
requests and pushes to main. It also supports manual dispatch and reusable
workflow calls. Publish to PyPI runs only on v* tag pushes and invokes CI
before building and publishing. The test check must be required in branch
protection to prevent merging a failing suite.
Key File Locations
| Path | Purpose |
|---|---|
src/kindex/cli.py |
CLI entry point and all kin subcommands |
src/kindex/dream.py |
Dream cycle: fuzzy dedup, suggestion auto-apply, domain edges |
src/kindex/referent.py |
R0 referent binding: digest validation, staleness sweep, rebind |
src/kindex/snapshots.py |
Pre-merge SQLite snapshots (rotating, fail-closed) to XDG state dir |
src/kindex/dream_deep.py |
LLM-powered cluster consolidation (--deep mode only) |
src/kindex/store.py |
SQLite + FTS5 storage layer |
src/kindex/config.py |
Configuration loading and Config model |
src/kindex/graph.py |
Graph analytics (centrality, communities, bridges) |
src/kindex/retrieve.py |
Hybrid search (FTS5 + graph BFS + RRF merge) |
src/kindex/extract.py |
Knowledge extraction from text and sessions |
src/kindex/ingest.py |
Project and session ingestion pipeline |
src/kindex/sessions.py |
Session tag lifecycle (start, update, segment, resume) |
src/kindex/coordination.py |
Collab conversations (members, cursors, inject messages, resources) |
src/kindex/locks.py |
Advisory node locks (acquire, release, expiry sweep) |
src/kindex/hooks.py |
Claude Code hook handlers (prime, compact) |
src/kindex/setup.py |
System setup (Claude hooks, launchd, crontab, .kin git merge driver) |
src/kindex/kin_merge.py |
Structured 3-way union merge for .kin/index.json + .kin/code-map.json (kin merge-kin git driver) |
src/kindex/daemon.py |
Background daemon and cron cycle |
src/kindex/budget.py |
LLM spend tracking and budget enforcement |
src/kindex/vectors.py |
Vector embedding, contextual chunk indexing, reindex maintenance, and similarity search |
src/kindex/vault.py |
Markdown vault import/export |
src/kindex/models.py |
Core data models |
src/kindex/schema.py |
Database schema and migrations |
src/kindex/llm.py |
LLM provider abstraction |
tests/ |
All tests (pytest) |
~/.kindex/ |
Default data directory (SQLite DB, logs) |
~/.config/kindex/kin.yaml |
User config |
.kin/config |
Git-tracked project context and optional work policy |
.kin/index.json |
Git-tracked project graph snapshot generated by kin index |
.kin/code-map.json |
Git-tracked repo code map generated by kin export code-map |
.gitattributes |
Points .kin/index.json + .kin/code-map.json at the merge=kindex driver (auto-written by kin index) |
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.
- 9d ago Changed · +38 lines · +832 tokens per session c76febf6c2d2
- 2mo ago First seen · 119 lines · 2,380 tokens per session scan A d483dee7a9fe
kindex CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jmcentire/kindex (1 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,212 tokens to every session, about $0.0128 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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