Kyoko: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Kyoko CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from kayba-ai/Kyoko. It costs 1,165 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for Kyoko, a local tool that records agent activity, proposes repairs, checks them, replays them, and applies approved changes. They explain the product structure, current names, key documents, and setup commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
For understanding Kyoko's architecture, installing it in editable mode, and finding the relevant specifications, fixtures, development notes, and validation commands.
Why use it?
They give coding agents the context needed to change Kyoko without renaming established components or overlooking its documented scope and safety boundaries.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is kayba-ai/Kyoko's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Kyoko 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 Kyoko configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security

Grade A, and why

Kyoko 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 8d 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 · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file gives coding agents the repo-specific context needed to work on Kyoko without re-learning the project from scratch.

Product Shape

Kyoko is a local repair loop for AI agent workflows:

telemetry -> issue -> proposal -> check -> replay -> gated apply

It is a single-user, local-first tool. The shipped runtime is a Python CLI, loopback dashboard/API, SQLite database, blob store, bundled dashboard assets, MCP server, telemetry SDKs, source/replay scaffolds, and conservative autonomy gate.

Read these first when the task touches product behavior:

  • README.md for the public overview.
  • docs/SCOPE.md for v0 boundaries and non-goals.
  • docs/ARCHITECTURE.md for the runtime model and safety boundary.
  • docs/DEVELOPMENT.md for tests, dashboard builds, and release smoke.
  • docs/specs/ and docs/fixtures/ for contract-level behavior.

Current Names

The current package, module, and CLI are still named kyoko. Do not rename the package, command, import path, docs, or release metadata unless the user explicitly asks for that change.

Commands

# Local editable install
python3 -m pip install -e .

# Validate specs, schemas, fixtures, and bundled asset mirrors
python3 scripts/validate_gate_artifacts.py
python3 -m kyoko validate-gates

# Full Python test suite
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests

# First-run/safe local smoke
python3 -m kyoko doctor --safe-smokes --json

# Package install smoke
python3 -m kyoko release-smoke --artifact both --install-deps --json

There is no separate lint/format config. Match surrounding style.

Frontend

The dashboard source lives in frontend/. Vite builds into kyoko/assets/web/ so the Python package can serve the dashboard after installation.

cd frontend
npm install
npm run build

For frontend development:

python3 -m kyoko serve --db /tmp/kyoko.db
cd frontend
npm run dev

The dev server proxies API requests to kyoko serve. Push updates use Server-Sent Events, not WebSockets.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. 8d ago First seen · 143 lines · 1,165 tokens per session scan A 235876720912

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Kyoko CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kayba-ai/Kyoko (97 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,165 tokens to every session, about $0.0058 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 2026-08-30.

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