native-php-matrix: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

native-php-matrix CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from lisachenko/native-php-matrix. It costs 5,033 tokens per session, scanned B, original, MIT.

Project instructions for a PHP extension that provides a Matrix class with arithmetic operators such as addition, multiplication, powers, and comparison. It explains how the extension connects PHP’s engine to the class through FFI, a way for code to call low-level native interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing native-php-matrix, running its tests, working with .phpt test files, or checking PHP and z-engine compatibility.
Why use it?
It highlights the strict PHP-version and memory-layout requirements that prevent subtle or unsafe failures when developing or testing the extension.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is lisachenko/native-php-matrix's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on native-php-matrix 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 native-php-matrix configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to lisachenko/native-php-matrix. 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/lisachenko/native-php-matrix/master/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lisachenko/native-php-matrix

Made for: Claude Code.

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Opus 5.5 $0.02013 $0.02013
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01007 $0.01007
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Grade B, and why

native-php-matrix CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 10d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

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CLAUDE.md · 361 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 361 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Working on native-php-matrix

This library gives PHP a Matrix class with real operator overloading — +, -, *, /, ** and == are dispatched by the Zend Engine itself, not emulated in userland. It does that by using z-engine to install create_object, do_operation and compare handlers directly onto the Matrix class entry through PHP FFI. The matrix arithmetic underneath is ordinary, readable PHP; the only unusual part is how the engine is convinced to call it.

The one rule that is non-negotiable: PHP minor and z-engine line move together

composer.json requires php: ^8.4, and PHP 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6 are supported in parallel — each minor riding its own z-engine line. z-engine reads engine structures (zend_class_entry, zval, zend_object_handlers) by byte offset, and those offsets change on every PHP minor release. Running against the wrong minor does not throw a nice exception; it reads and writes the wrong memory.

That is why z-engine is required as ~8.4.2 || ~8.5.0 || 8.6.x-dev: Composer resolves the line matching the running PHP (8.4.x on PHP 8.4, 8.5.x on PHP 8.5, z-engine master — branch-aliased 8.6.x-dev — on PHP 8.6). Each line declares its own ~8.4.0/~8.5.0/~8.6.0 platform requirement, so only one line can ever satisfy a given runtime. 8.4 and 8.5 are stable tags; 8.6 rides the development line until z-engine tags it. ZEngine\Core::init() (called from bootstrap.php) enforces the exact match and aborts with a clear message. Never "fix" an initialization failure by loosening the constraints past the minors z-engine has definitions for, skipping Core::init(), or defeating the guard. If the environment's PHP does not satisfy ^8.4 (8.4, 8.5 or 8.6), the environment is wrong — say so and stop.

Running tests

composer test

The suite is PHPUnit 12 driving .phpt files in tests/Functional/. Two INI settings must hold in both the parent PHPUnit process and every .phpt child process it spawns:

Read the full file on GitHub · 361 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. 10d ago Changed · +150 lines · +2,595 tokens per session scan A → B 7d640fbec4d8
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 211 lines · 2,438 tokens per session scan A 8b5135b31ae6

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native-php-matrix CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository lisachenko/native-php-matrix (43 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,033 tokens to every session, about $0.0201 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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