SiftMarks: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

SiftMarks CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Lling0000/SiftMarks. It costs 2,337 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository-specific instructions for Claude Code, covering a TypeScript monorepo whose command-line tools, web dashboard, and MCP server share one database. They also describe build, checking, and project-layer rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when installing dependencies, building packages or the web app, running the dashboard or command-line tools, type-checking, linting, or working across the monorepo's shared database and packages.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent the project's structure and safe commands, including the fact that no test runner is configured. This helps avoid incorrect assumptions when changing or checking the code.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is Lling0000/SiftMarks's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on SiftMarks 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 SiftMarks configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Lling0000/SiftMarks. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Grade A, and why

SiftMarks 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 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.

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 · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Commands

  • Install: npm install
  • Build TS packages + CLI + MCP server (skips Next build): npm run build:packages
  • Build everything (packages + web): npm run build
  • Run the local dashboard at http://localhost:4399: npm run dev
  • Typecheck the workspace via project references: npm run typecheck (builds tsconfig.json references; the web app is not listed, so this passes even when Next would fail — see Caveats)
  • Lint: npm run lint (root config is minimal; the web app uses its own eslint.config.mjs via npm run lint -w apps/web)
  • Run the CLI after build:packages: npm run cli -- <command> (e.g. init, stats, doctor, search "...", rescue, index --limit 100, import ./bookmarks.html, export out.json, mcp)
  • Start MCP server directly: node apps/mcp-server/dist/index.js
  • There is no test runner configured — no npm test, no test files. Don't claim tests pass; verify by running CLI commands or hitting API routes.

Per-workspace builds use tsc (or next build for apps/web); workspaces are wired via npm workspaces. Build order matters: shared → db → ai → core → indexer → cli → mcp-server → web. npm run build:packages enforces this order — if you build a single workspace, build its deps first.

For experiments that should not touch the user's real bookmark library at ~/.siftmarks/, set SIFTMARKS_HOME=/tmp/siftmarks-test (read by getDataDir() in packages/db/src/database.ts).

Architecture

SiftMarks is a local-first TypeScript monorepo that turns browser bookmarks into a searchable, AI-augmented memory library. Everything runs on the user's machine; no account, no telemetry. The app data lives in a single SQLite file at ~/.siftmarks/siftmarks.sqlite (overridable via SIFTMARKS_HOME).

The four entry points share one database

All four apps open the same SQLite file via new SiftMarksDB() and call .initialize() on startup. database.ts is the single source of truth for SQL — neither the web routes nor the MCP tools issue raw SQL. Schema (packages/db/src/schema.ts) is idempotent (CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS), so any entry point can boot a fresh DB.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 2mo ago First seen · 99 lines · 2,337 tokens per session scan A 14916fddaa0e

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SiftMarks CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Lling0000/SiftMarks (27 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,337 tokens to every session, about $0.0093 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 2026-08-30.

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