trustable-ai: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

trustable-ai CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from keychain-io/trustable-ai. It costs 4,180 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Trustable AI, a software framework that makes AI coding work more reliable by requiring checks before work is marked complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing Trustable AI, following its setup steps, or checking work against external systems and required workflow gates.
Why use it?
They help prevent an AI agent from claiming a task is finished without verifying that the work exists and works.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

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CLAUDE.md · 476 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 476 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trustable AI Development Workbench

⚠️ CRITICAL: For AI Agents Working On This Project

VISION.md describes PROBLEMS TO SOLVE, not behaviors to emulate.

When VISION.md says "AI agents routinely claim completion without doing work" or "skip verification steps" - those are ANTI-PATTERNS this framework prevents. As an AI agent working ON this project:

  • ✅ DO: Verify all work is complete before marking tasks done
  • ✅ DO: Query external sources of truth (Azure DevOps, file system) to verify work exists
  • ✅ DO: Follow workflow verification gates explicitly - never skip them
  • ✅ DO: Implement the SOLUTIONS described in VISION.md (verification gates, state persistence)
  • ❌ DO NOT: Skip verification steps described in workflow templates
  • ❌ DO NOT: Claim work is complete without external verification
  • ❌ DO NOT: Reproduce the anti-patterns VISION.md describes

You are building the solution to AI unreliability. Execute workflows with complete, programmatic verification.


Overview

Trustable AI is an AI-assisted software lifecycle framework that solves the fundamental unreliability of AI coding agents (VISION.md). Generic AI agents fail software development tasks by claiming completion without doing work, skipping verification steps, and losing progress when sessions crash.

This framework doesn't make AI smarter - it makes AI failures visible and recoverable through structured SDLC processes that catch errors early.

Project Overview

Trustable AI is an AI-assisted software lifecycle framework featuring multi-agent orchestration, state management, and work tracking integration. It enables reliable software development with Claude Code through specialized agents, re-entrant workflows, and hierarchical context management.

Current State (v1.2.0):

  • ✅ Configuration system with Pydantic validation
  • ✅ Agent template rendering with project context injection (12 agents)
  • ✅ Workflow template rendering (7 workflows)
  • ✅ Work tracking platform adapters (Azure DevOps, file-based, extensible to Jira/GitHub)
  • ✅ CLI (trustable-ai) for initialization, configuration, and management
  • ✅ State management with re-entrancy support
  • ✅ Profiling and analytics
  • ✅ Skills system for reusable capabilities
  • ✅ Learnings capture system

Read the full file on GitHub · 476 lines

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