What is kaddo CLAUDE.md?

A project instruction file for the Kaddo repository, defining its languages, work-item folders, and delivery lifecycle. A work item is a tracked piece of planned work that moves from a draft through review, implementation, evidence, and completion.

Use it to guide Kaddo work-item creation, refinement, approval, implementation handoff, evidence collection, and verification.

It gives the coding agent consistent repository rules instead of leaving it to guess where work belongs or which command to use at each stage.

How Kaddo-kdd/kaddo configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Kaddo-kdd/kaddo. 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/Kaddo-kdd/kaddo/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kaddo-kdd/kaddo

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 691 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 691 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00691	$0.00691
Opus 5.5	$0.00276	$0.00276
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00138	$0.00138
Haiku 4.5	$0.00069	$0.00069

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 74f438047c67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kaddo 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 1mo 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 · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kaddo — Project Rules

Project Language

Knowledge artifacts, documentation, learnings: Spanish
Code, filenames, keys, identifiers, commit messages: English

Build Contract — Kaddo-Native Lifecycle

All changes follow the Kaddo Work Item lifecycle (Build Contract). No OpenSpec.

Captured Intent (draft) → Refinement → Human Review → Ready →
Implementation Handoff → Implementation → Evidence → Verification →
Human Review → Completed

Work Item Directories

Work Items physically move between directories as they progress:

knowledge/delivery/work-items/draft/ — captured intent and refined drafts
knowledge/delivery/work-items/ready/ — human-approved, ready for implementation
knowledge/delivery/work-items/in-progress/ — actively being implemented
knowledge/delivery/work-items/completed/ — done, with learning section

Lifecycle Tools

Stage	CLI	MCP Tool
Create	`kaddo create`	`kaddo_work_item_import`
Refine	work-item-refinement skill	`kaddo_get_skill`
Ready	`kaddo ready <ID>`	`kaddo_mark_work_item_ready`
Handoff	implementation-planning skill	`kaddo_implementation_handoff`
Evidence	`kaddo verify <ID>`	`kaddo_collect_evidence`
Verify	`kaddo verify <ID>`	`kaddo_verify_work_item`
Complete	`kaddo learn <ID>`	—

Key Skills

work-item-refinement — enrich draft WIs with ACs, scope confidence, validation
implementation-planning — design deliberation + implementation plan
evidence-verification — structured evidence collection and AC verification
learning-capture — retrospective learning on completed WIs

Key Agents

work-item-agent — WI refinement and lifecycle
implementation-agent — implementation handoff and execution
backlog-agent — backlog management and prioritization
ownership-agent — code ownership and responsibility
architecture-agent — technical architecture decisions

Versioning

All 5 workspace packages share the same version: cli, admin, admin-server, mcp, integrations
After completing a feature: bump all 5 package.json versions, commit, push, create+push tag

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

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.

1mo ago First seen · 76 lines · 691 tokens per session scan A 74f438047c67

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kaddo CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Kaddo-kdd/kaddo (67 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 691 tokens to every session, about $0.0028 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 2026-09-30.

Project management

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