flow CLAUDE.md

A set of instructions for coding agents working on Flow, a self-hosted task manager similar to ClickUp or Asana. They describe the project’s architecture, rules, layout and commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when modifying the Flow codebase, especially when working with its shared data contract, Cloudflare services, database storage, real-time updates or agent interfaces.
Why use it?
They give an agent the project context and constraints needed to make compatible changes. The input does not describe a standalone feature or tool.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/joelborch/flow/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joelborch/flow
Per session 736 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 736 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00736 $0.00736
Opus 5 $0.00368 $0.00368
Sonnet 5 $0.00147 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00074 $0.00074

Measured yesterday against content hash d294ee33abb1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flow 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 yesterday.

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 · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Flow

A fast, minimal, agent-first task manager (self-hosted ClickUp/Asana replacement). Everything runs on Cloudflare: one Worker (apps/api) serving the SPA, REST, MCP at /mcp, and WebSockets at /ws; one Durable Object (packages/core) holding the entire workspace in SQLite; R2 for attachments; Queues for outbound side effects. Full agent contract: AGENTS.md.

Ground rules

  • packages/shared is the contract. All entity shapes, mutation inputs, delta events, WS protocol, LIMITS, and MCP tool names live there as Zod schemas with inferred types. Import from it; never redeclare its types. If the contract must change, make the smallest compatible change and flag it prominently.
  • One workspace, one DO instance. The DO is the only writer; REST/MCP handlers call its RPC methods (WorkspaceRpc) and never touch SQL.
  • Every mutation appends a Delta with a monotonic seq; WS clients receive patches and replay on reconnect. Never build a "refetch the board" path.
  • Automations evaluate inline in the DO mutation turn (depth cap 5). Outbound side effects (webhook/email) go through the SIDE_EFFECTS queue, never inline. Email respects EMAIL_DRY_RUN (default true): log, don't send.
  • Subtasks are Asana-style: done/not-done + optional assignee/dueDate. They do NOT have statuses.
  • API keys (flow_ bearer tokens) impersonate a real user; the audit trail records the key id.
  • TypeScript strict everywhere. pnpm workspaces. No new runtime deps without a strong reason (allowed: hono, zod, preact, @preact/signals, the MCP SDK, or similarly tiny libraries).
  • UI: clean, minimal, Linear-ish. Tailwind v4. Fast: optimistic mutations, CSS transforms for drag, no full-board re-renders.
  • Never commit secrets or real config values; placeholders only (flow.example.com, [email protected]). Local values go in apps/api/.dev.vars.

Layout

  • packages/shared — the Zod contract (depends only on zod)
  • packages/core — Workspace Durable Object + automation engine; most tests
  • apps/api — Hono Worker: auth, routes, MCP, WS, queue consumer, wrangler.jsonc
  • apps/web — Preact + @preact/signals + Tailwind v4 SPA; store in src/store
  • apps/importer — local-only ClickUp ETL (tsx, never deployed)

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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. yesterday First seen · 55 lines · 736 tokens per session scan A d294ee33abb1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

flow CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository joelborch/flow (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 736 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 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 2026-08-31.

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