karakeep: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

karakeep CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from karakeep-app/karakeep. It costs 3 tokens per session, scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

Command-line instructions for Karakeep, a self-hosted app for saving bookmarks, notes, and images. It can automatically tag saved items and search their full text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing, debugging, or reviewing changes to Karakeep's bookmark saving, tagging, image, note, or search features.
Why use it?
They give an agent project-specific rules for making changes in the Karakeep codebase, reducing the chance of breaking its expected behavior.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is karakeep-app/karakeep's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on karakeep 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 karakeep configures →

About the project

Karakeep is a self-hosted app for saving links, notes, images, and PDFs in one searchable collection, with automatic tagging and summaries from language models. It is for people who archive and organize online content, and its catalogue add-ons support agent workflows around the app.

karakeep-app/karakeep · 30,325 stars · on GitHub · karakeep.com

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 3 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 3 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 unknown 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
Fable 5.1 $0.00003 $0.00003
Opus 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00001
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00001
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00000

Measured 2mo ago against content hash a54ff182c7e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

karakeep 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.

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 · 1 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 1 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A a54ff182c7e8

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karakeep CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository karakeep-app/karakeep (30,325 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 3 tokens to every session, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.

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