gusset: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

gusset CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from latchkey-dev/gusset. It costs 638 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

A development guide for Gusset, a code-analysis tool that maps how changes affect a project. It also documents the project's required testing and review workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check a symbol's blast radius, run tests, verify the project on a clean machine, and understand the automated review and self-healing workflow.
Why use it?
It helps developers find affected code before editing and catch dependency, caching, and clean-environment problems before pushing changes.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is latchkey-dev/gusset's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on gusset 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 gusset configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 638 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 638 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00638 $0.00638
Opus 5.5 $0.00255 $0.00255
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00128 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00064 $0.00064

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 817d8fab2926, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

gusset CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 2 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

latchkey run --timeout 900 'curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh >/dev/null 2>&1; export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH; uv sync -q; uv run pytest -q'

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

latchkey run --timeout 900 'curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh >/dev/null 2>&1; export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH; uv sync -q; uv run pytest -q'
CLAUDE.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gusset — development guide

Gusset develops Gusset. This repo is its own first customer: the custodian runs on our PRs (see gusset.toml), and the dev loop below is mandatory for humans and agents alike — every workflow pain point found here is a product bug worth fixing.

The dev loop

  1. Before changing shared code, ask Gusset for the blast radius:
    gusset index . --db .gusset/graph.db
    gusset impact --symbol <qualname> --db .gusset/graph.db --yes
    # or after editing:  gusset impact --diff HEAD --db .gusset/graph.db --yes
    
    Use the verified impact list as the checklist of call sites to update.
  2. Test locally: uv run pytest -q — no green, no commit.
  3. Verify on a clean machine (catches deps/caching assumptions your working tree hides) before pushing anything substantial:
    latchkey run --timeout 900 'curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh >/dev/null 2>&1; export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH; uv sync -q; uv run pytest -q'
    
  4. Push and let the custodian review: the Gusset Action comments the blast radius on the PR; CI runs on Latchkey runners (latchkey-small).
  5. If CI fails and self-heal couldn't fix it: the Latchkey MCP server (setup: docs/howto/autonomous-stack.md) exposes list_failed_runs / get_failure_bundle for triage, dispatch_workflow to re-fire, and run_job for ad-hoc clean-runner commands.

House rules

  • The graph is the oracle: never let a workflow treat model output as truth. New workflows follow docs/howto/write-a-workflow.md and the 8-point checklist in docs/explanation/graph-engineering.md.
  • probe/ is the only module allowed to import pandaprobe; everything degrades to off without credentials.
  • No LLM code in oracle/ or graph/, ever.
  • evals/ results are append-only history — rerun, don't rewrite.
  • Every friction point in this loop goes in DOGFOOD.md — it is the product backlog the tool earns by being used, and it is public: write entries as honestly as if a stranger will read them, because one will.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 2mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 638 tokens per session scan C 817d8fab2926

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gusset CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository latchkey-dev/gusset (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 638 tokens to every session, about $0.0026 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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