loadout: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

loadout CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from JOndarza/loadout. It costs 356 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for Loadout, a VSCode extension that manages Claude Code agents, skills, and profiles as switchable configurations. It explains the project’s rules, coding conventions, and development process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing the extension, especially its Node.js extension host or Angular webview. It guides file changes, branches, commits, builds, and which rules load automatically.
Why use it?
It gives an assistant the constraints needed to work safely in the project, such as keeping filesystem access in the extension host and using the required build and Git practices.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 356 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 356 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00356 $0.00356
Opus 5.5 $0.00142 $0.00142
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00071 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00036 $0.00036

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 78236cf34b81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

loadout 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 · 29 lines

What it actually says

Loadout — Project Rules

Context

VSCode extension that manages Claude Code agents, skills, and profiles as swappable loadouts. The extension host (Node.js/CommonJS) communicates with an Angular 21 webview via postMessage.

Hard NOs

  • NEVER call VSCode APIs (vscode.*, fs.*) from inside the webview — all filesystem ops go through postMessage to the extension host
  • NEVER use git add -A or git add . — always stage specific files by name
  • NEVER git push --force to main
  • NEVER skip pre-commit hooks (--no-verify)
  • NEVER use --amend without explicit user request

Conventions

  • Documentation language: english
  • Code language: english
  • Extension host files (extension.js, data.js) use CommonJS — no ESM, no import

Process

  • Branches: feature/<slug> → main
  • Commits: conventional format, imperative mood, no AI attribution
  • Build: cd webview && npm run build before committing UI changes

Where context comes from

  • Always-loaded rules: .claude/rules/*.md without paths: frontmatter — load every session
  • Auto-loaded rules: .claude/rules/*.md with paths: frontmatter — load only when Claude reads matching files
  • Full docs: docs/*.md — read on-demand when detail is needed beyond what the rules carry
  • Governance: docs/README.md — doc-folder rules, story/bug workflows
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 · 29 lines · 356 tokens per session scan A 78236cf34b81

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loadout CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository JOndarza/loadout (3 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 356 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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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