claude CLAUDE.md

claude CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from johnlindquist/claude. It costs 672 tokens per session, scanned C, original, no licence file.

A set of instructions for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, covering how it should review work and follow required steps before searching or editing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is used to review coding-agent behaviour, check pass/fail conditions, discover relevant skills, explore a codebase, and plan changes.
Why use it?
It gives the assistant a consistent review process and prevents it from skipping discovery or planning.

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/johnlindquist/claude/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnlindquist/claude

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 672 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 672 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00672 $0.00672
Opus 5 $0.00336 $0.00336
Sonnet 5 $0.00134 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00067 $0.00067

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6f027c7db763, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

claude CLAUDE.md scanned grade C 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 4d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- Only pause for genuinely destructive/irreversible actions (e.g., `rm -rf`, force push to main, production deployments).
CLAUDE.md · 72 lines

The source is not reproduced here

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. 4d ago First seen · 72 lines · 672 tokens per session scan C 6f027c7db763

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claude CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository johnlindquist/claude (25 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 672 tokens to every session, about $0.0034 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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