claude.md-boilerplate: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude.md-boilerplate CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from leighstillard/claude.md-boilerplate. It costs 1,816 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A ready-made CLAUDE.md instruction file for Claude Code, the coding agent, covering coding standards, commits, branches, pull requests, and tool use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a starting point for configuring coding-agent behaviour in a project.
Why use it?
It gives the agent shared project rules so its work follows the repository's expected process.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 1,816 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,816 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 unknown 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 $0.01816 $0.01816
Opus 5 $0.00908 $0.00908
Sonnet 5 $0.00363 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00182 $0.00182

Measured 11d ago against content hash a68fb13057c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude.md-boilerplate 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 11d 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 · 186 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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. 11d ago First seen · 186 lines · 1,816 tokens per session scan A a68fb13057c1

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claude.md-boilerplate CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository leighstillard/claude.md-boilerplate (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 1,816 tokens to every session, about $0.0091 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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