optio: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

optio CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from jonwiggins/optio. It costs 73 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Repository guidance for Optio, a system that runs AI coding agents on software tasks. It explains how tasks, isolated Kubernetes pods, and Git worktrees are used to run work and open pull requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Understanding task triggers, assigning coding agents, creating isolated repository workspaces, streaming run logs, and tracking pull requests.
Why use it?
It clarifies how Optio separates concurrent work and moves a task from an agent run to code review, reducing confusion about its workflow.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

About the project

Optio is a self-hosted platform that coordinates AI coding agents in isolated environments and manages their work through completion, review, testing, and pull-request merging. It is for teams running automated repository tasks, reusable jobs, and persistent agents connected to services such as GitHub, Linear, Slack, or databases. The catalogue entries are instructions for using Optio.

jonwiggins/optio · 1,076 stars · on GitHub · optio.host

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan C 1 finding. 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
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Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00029
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00007

Measured today against content hash 85153def4719, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

optio 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 today.

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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- Project instructions live in AGENTS.md so every coding agent reads the same file. Claude Code reads it through the import above (CLAUDE.md wins over AGENTS.md when both exist, so this file must keep the import). Put
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What it actually says

@AGENTS.md

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.

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optio CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jonwiggins/optio (1,076 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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