hplan: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

hplan CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from kimsanguine/hplan. It costs 1,379 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for hplan, a system that adds planning rules, checks, and staged agent work to an AI-assisted software project. They are loaded automatically into Claude Code sessions through a CLAUDE.md file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to guide project discovery, architecture, delivery, operations, and automated gate checks in an hplan-based repository.
Why use it?
They make the agent state assumptions, follow project disciplines, and pass required checks instead of jumping straight into uncertain implementation.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 1,379 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,379 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 $0.01379 $0.01379
Opus 5.5 $0.00552 $0.00552
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00276 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00138 $0.00138

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 99f13eb539c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hplan 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 1mo 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 · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — hplan Project Rules (ADK L1: Memory)

ADK Layer 1 — Memory: This file is loaded into every Claude Code session automatically. It encodes the 9 behavioral disciplines that prevent the most common AI-assisted PM failures. Clone this repo and these rules apply immediately — no manual setup required.

Customize the hplan Context section below for your project. Keep the 9 Rules as-is.


hplan Context

This project uses hplan — the Product Build Gate for AI Agents.

Layer What File
L1 Memory Project rules (this file) CLAUDE.md
L2 Skills Auto-invoked PM disciplines hplan/, discover/, architect/, deliver/, operate/
L3 Hooks Gate enforcement at tool time hooks/ → .claude/settings.json
L4 Subagents Task-sequential subagent dispatch + gates deliver/skills/conductor/
L5 Plugins Marketplace distribution hplan/PLUGIN.md

Active harness directory: harness/ Gate status: Run /harness-doctor to verify hook installation.


9 Behavioral Rules

Rule 1 — Think Before Coding

State assumptions explicitly in words. Stop and ask rather than guessing if ambiguous. If there are two or more interpretations, show both and let the user choose. Before adding new keys/fields to external systems (settings.json · API · DB), verify the official schema first — never guess key names.

Check: Are assumptions/interpretations stated at the top of the response? Did I proceed despite remaining ambiguity? If yes → violation.

Rule 2 — Simplicity First

Write the minimum code that solves the request. No speculative features. No abstractions for one-off code. No try/except for scenarios that can't happen.

Check: Did I add branches that won't be called? Did I build the next task in advance? If yes → violation.

Rule 3 — Surgical Changes

Touch only what's needed. No "improving" adjacent code, comments, or formatting. No refactoring things that aren't broken. Preserve existing style.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 1mo ago First seen · 125 lines · 1,379 tokens per session scan A 99f13eb539c2

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hplan CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kimsanguine/hplan (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,379 tokens to every session, about $0.0055 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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