claude-bouncer: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-bouncer CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from karlkfi/claude-bouncer. It costs 2,032 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for maintaining five Claude Code guard plugins in one marketplace. It explains shared parser files, plugin-specific rules, the common backlog, tests, synchronization, and release work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing the shared parser, syncing it into plugins, checking repository rules, managing the backlog, running tests, or following the release process.
Why use it?
It prevents changes from being made to generated parser copies that will later be overwritten. It also keeps all plugins interpreting commands consistently.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is karlkfi/claude-bouncer's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-bouncer 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 claude-bouncer configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 2,032 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.02032 $0.02032
Opus 5 $0.01016 $0.01016
Sonnet 5 $0.00406 $0.00406
Haiku 4.5 $0.00203 $0.00203

Measured 6d ago against content hash 04118d07f584, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-bouncer 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 6d 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 · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Working in claude-bouncer

Five Claude Code guard plugins in one marketplace. Each plugin under plugins/<name>/ is self-contained and has its own CLAUDE.md covering its rules. Read that one for plugin work. This file covers what is true of the repo as a whole. Releasing is one of those things: it moves the root manifest and the root README, so the runbook is docs/development/release-process.md and there is no per-plugin one. The backlog is another — one store for all five, below.

Never edit a vendored library copy

lib/ holds the shared modules: bouncer_parse.py, the shell parser, and bouncer_grants.py, the session-grant store. Every plugin carries a copy of each at plugins/<name>/lib/, written by scripts/sync-lib.py, which syncs every module named in its MODULES tuple. Adding a module there is what makes it shared — a file dropped in lib/ and not named is vendored nowhere.

Edit the root copy, then run make sync. A vendored copy is overwritten without warning, so an edit made there is lost at the next sync, and until then the guards disagree about what a command means. make sync-check is a CI gate and runs before the tests: a plugin suite passing against a stale copy is the failure it exists to catch.

The copies exist because Claude Code copies a plugin into ~/.claude/plugins/cache/<marketplace>/<plugin>/<version>/ at install time and a path climbing out of the plugin root does not resolve there. Symlinks to a marketplace sibling are dereferenced for a git-hosted install but skipped for --plugin-dir and local-path installs, which is how this repo gets tested, so vendoring is the only form that behaves the same everywhere.

What belongs in the shared parser

A primitive belongs in lib/ when the guards must agree on it. Tokenizing a command is one. Segmentation is not: foreground-guard needs to know which segment was backgrounded, exit-status-guard needs the operator that joined two commands, and prod-guard judges an unterminated heredoc that bash treats as data. Forcing one answer onto another guard's question is how five copies of one lexer drifted apart in the first place.

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 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.

  1. 6d ago Changed · +11 lines · +186 tokens per session 04118d07f584
  2. 10d ago First seen · 148 lines · 1,846 tokens per session scan A 6bd834869554

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claude-bouncer CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository karlkfi/claude-bouncer (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 2,032 tokens to every session, about $0.0102 per session on Opus 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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