What is epiq CLAUDE.md?

Project-specific instructions for working on epiq, a git-backed issue board with a text interface, a web interface, and an MCP server.

They guide development work on epiq and its agent instructions.

They give an agent the repository's rules for session identity, server setup, and maintaining its bundled skill. This avoids applying generic instructions that could conflict with the project.

How ljtn/epiq configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ljtn/epiq. 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/ljtn/epiq/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ljtn/epiq

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/ljtn/epiq/claude-md/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/ljtn/epiq/claude-md)

Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 162 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 162 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00162	$0.00162
Opus 5.5	$0.00065	$0.00065
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00032	$0.00032
Haiku 4.5	$0.00016	$0.00016

Measured 21d ago against content hash 3a98153da684, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

epiq 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 21d 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 · 8 lines

What it actually says

@AGENTS.md

Claude Code

Take a board identity first: claude/<name>, the name the user gave this session. Say Assuming claude/<name> in your first line.
If this session's epiq MCP server never connected, run your own npx -y -p epiq@latest epiq-mcp over stdio; never borrow another session's. Stop it and its epiq-mcp child when done.
The shipped epiq skill (.claude/skills/epiq) is for anyone using epiq on their own board: keep it terse and free of this repository's rules, and regenerate it with node source/scripts/write-skill.mjs after editing.

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.

21d ago First seen · 8 lines · 162 tokens per session scan A 3a98153da684

Subscribe to this mod's changes

epiq CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ljtn/epiq (581 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 162 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 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 2026-10-16.

Git and workflow Project management git-based issue-tracker kanban offline-first task-manager tui

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epiq: Instructions file for Claude Code