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Herdforge: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Herdforge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Kampe/Herdforge. It costs 933 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project-specific instructions for Claude Code in Herdforge, including build commands, repository rules, and checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to build Herdforge, run its tests and preflight checks, launch its interactive shell, and follow its branching, error-handling, and file-path conventions.
Why use it?
They help the assistant follow the project’s required workflow and catch errors before changes are considered ready.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Opus 5.5 $0.00373 $0.00373
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00187 $0.00187
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Grade A, and why

Herdforge 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.

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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 · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md - Build Bootstrap & Routing Protocol

This document serves as the build bootstrap and routing specification for Claude and peer AI agents operating over Herdforge.

1. Quick Invariants (Hard Rules)

  1. Origin Main is Truth: Development occurs in worktrees or feature branches; main is always clean and green.
  2. Fail-Closed Execution: Subcommands and API wrappers MUST exit non-zero on error. HTTP 200 responses containing {"error": ...} JSON bodies are hard errors.
  3. No Absolute Paths: Absolutely NO absolute paths in code, configs, or markdown. Use ./ or $HERD_ROOT.
  4. Deterministic Sorting: Candidate task queues MUST be sorted by $(\text{Priority DESC}, \text{Ticket Ref ASC})$.
  5. No AI Trailers in Commits: Never add Co-Authored-By, Signed-off-by, or AI attribution trailers to git commits.

2. Fast Commands

# Build binary
make build

# Run preflight, unit tests, and build
make all

# Run self-test suite against active repository
make self-test

# Run unit tests across all packages
make test-unit

# Run preflight workspace boundary check
make preflight

# Launch interactive REPL shell
./bin/herd sh

# Execute pulse task claim sweep
./bin/herd pulse --role worker

3. Topic Routing Matrix

Topic Reference Document
Agent Skill & Integration Guide SKILL.md / .herd/skills/herd.md
Agent Prompts & Contracts .herd/prompts/
Agent Governance & Invariants AGENTS.md
Architecture & API Specs docs/architecture/AGENT-IMPLEMENTATION-GUIDE.md
System RFC & Design docs/rfcs/RFC-001-HERD-DAEMON.md

Code intelligence: code-review-graph CLI

IMPORTANT: This project has a knowledge graph. ALWAYS use the code-review-graph CLI BEFORE using Grep/Glob/Read to explore the codebase. The graph is faster, cheaper (fewer tokens), and gives you structural context (callers, dependents, test coverage) that file scanning cannot.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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Herdforge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Kampe/Herdforge (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 933 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 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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