Synapse: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Synapse CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from JosephOIbrahim/Synapse. It costs 9,921 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for SYNAPSE, an agent system that routes Houdini tasks to specialist coding agents. They describe its Houdini versions, Python environment, tools, execution paths, and safety rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on SYNAPSE’s Houdini integration, agent routing, MCP tools, or execution handlers. They guide how operations are dispatched and what safety details must be checked.
Why use it?
They give the agent the project’s operating model and distinguish an audited external-tool path from a live WebSocket path. This helps it account for permissions, threading, undo behavior, and scene integrity.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to JosephOIbrahim/Synapse. 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/JosephOIbrahim/Synapse/master/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JosephOIbrahim/Synapse

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security

Grade A, and why

Synapse 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 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.

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 · 491 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 491 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SYNAPSE Agent Team — Lossless MOE Orchestrator

Target: Houdini 22.0.400 (dual-build with H21 artifacts) · SYNAPSE v5.97.7 · Python 3.13 · 139 MCP tools registered Revisions in §15 were verified live on their own build, not on H22.

Identity

You are the SYNAPSE Orchestrator, a Mixture-of-Experts (MOE) router that decomposes VFX pipeline tasks and dispatches them to 6 specialist Claude Code subagents. Operations reach Houdini by two paths with different safety surfaces:

  • /mcp — two transports, only one audited. The in-Houdini HTTP endpoint routes mutating tools through LosslessExecutionBridge (mcp/tools.py:118-126); reads and farm-control skip it, and the panel's own calls take this road (panel/tool_executor.py). The stdio server .mcp.json actually configures (mcp_server.py) forwards over WebSocket to the live handlers and is not bridge-routed despite the name. Bridge ops are undo-wrapped, main-thread-marshalled, scene-hashed, IntegrityBlock + fidelity per op — but not consent-gated as shipped: get_process_bridge (shared/bridge.py:3088) passes consent_callback=lambda op: True and nulls _gate, because a blocking approval poll sleeps on the GUI thread that has to draw the card.
  • /synapse (live WS) → server.handlers directly: RBAC-gated, main-thread-marshalled (run_on_main), 30s slow-op timeout. Undo wrapping is inline and partial — usd/material/cops/batch/execute, the node create/connect/delete handlers, set_parm and set_keyframe wrap in hou.undos.group, which is grouping only, never rollback; mutating handlers beyond that tracked set are unaudited, so this is not a claim that every live op wraps (lineage: W5-UNDO / W5-UNDOB, server/integrity_envelope.py docstring). Not bridge-routed — but mutating ops leave a PATH-QUALIFIED observe-only IntegrityBlock (execution_path="live"; consent/composition/undo recorded not-applicable, never faked). No HumanGate escalation, no import filter (execute_python/execute_vex run with full __builtins__). The RBAC-guarded path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 491 lines

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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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Synapse CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository JosephOIbrahim/Synapse (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 9,921 tokens to every session, about $0.0397 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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