flowspec: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

flowspec CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from jpoley/flowspec. It costs 1,118 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of project instructions for Claude Code working on the Flowspec command-line tool. It describes the project, operator preferences, required validation, and safeguards for planning, Git, secrets, and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide Claude Code during development, especially when planning work, validating claims, changing architecture, or handling Git.
Why use it?
It prevents the coding agent from ignoring repository rules or making unapproved and risky changes.

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 jpoley/flowspec's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on flowspec 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 flowspec configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Sonnet 5.5 $0.00224 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00112 $0.00112

Measured yesterday against content hash 0ff840f327dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flowspec 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 · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — flowspec-cli

Project

Name: flowspec-cli
Repo: github.com/jpoley/flowspec
Purpose: CLI toolkit that initialises, upgrades, and orchestrates AI agent workflows using Spec-Driven Development (SDD). Ships as flowspec (and legacy alias specify).
Current focus: Run backlog task list -s "In Progress" --plain to see the active task


Operator Preferences

  • State facts only. No sugarcoating.
  • Surface problems, blockers, and risks immediately.
  • Consult before one-way-door decisions and before any architectural change.
  • Never answer from a guess. Validate claims against primary sources; if impossible, say so explicitly.
  • Objective language. No first-person pronouns. No apologies or hedges.

Hard Guardrails (always apply)

  • Plan before any non-trivial change. Write the plan to .claude/plans/. Wait for approval.
  • Never commit or merge directly to main.
  • Never commit secrets, tokens, keys, or .env files.
  • No destructive git (reset --hard, force-push, branch delete) without explicit operator approval.
  • NEVER delete test files or test methods without explicit human instruction — see .claude/rules/critical.md.
  • NEVER edit backlog/tasks/*.md files directly — use backlog task edit CLI only.
  • All commits require DCO sign-off: git commit -s -m "...".
  • Run formatter + linter + tests after every change set before declaring done.

Stack

Layer Detail
Language Python 3.11+ (requires-python = ">=3.11" in pyproject.toml)
Package manager uv — uv sync to install, uv tool install . --force to install CLI
Formatter ruff format
Linter ruff check
Test framework pytest — run with uv run pytest tests/ -x -q
CLI framework Typer + Rich (src/flowspec_cli/__init__.py — 10K-line monolith, decompose carefully)
HTTP client httpx with truststore for SSL
Config pyproject.toml, flowspec_workflow.yml

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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flowspec CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jpoley/flowspec (50 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,118 tokens to every session, about $0.0045 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 2026-10-09.

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