sift-gateway: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

sift-gateway CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from lourencomaciel/sift-gateway. It costs 1,640 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project-specific instructions for Sift Gateway, a Python command-line tool and service for managing configurations, databases, files, and upstream connections. They document its layout, coding style, and commands for building, testing, checking, and running it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when editing Sift Gateway, running its unit or integration tests, checking types and documentation, or managing its configured packages and transports.
Why use it?
They give an AI coding agent the repository’s working rules and exact commands, reducing guesswork when changing the code.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is lourencomaciel/sift-gateway's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on sift-gateway 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 sift-gateway configures →

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Grade A, and why

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CLAUDE.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sift

Build & Test

  • uv run python -m pytest tests/unit/ -q — run unit tests
  • uv run python -m ruff check src tests — lint
  • uv run python -m ruff format src tests — auto-format
  • uv run python -m mypy src — strict type checking
  • PYTHONPATH=src uv run python scripts/check_docs_consistency.py — enforce docs/runtime contract
  • Integration tests: uv run python -m pytest tests/integration/ -q
  • Build system: uv_build via pyproject.toml
  • Always run full test suite after changes: tests must stay green

CLI

  • sift-gateway --check — validate config/DB/FS and upstream config validity
  • sift-gateway init --from <file> — import mcpServers config (SQLite backend)
  • sift-gateway upstream add <json> — add upstream to existing config
  • sift-gateway install <packages...> / sift-gateway uninstall <packages...> — manage code-query packages
  • --dry-run and --revert flags on init; --data-dir works globally
  • Transport modes: --transport stdio (default), sse, streamable-http

Project Structure

  • Source: src/sift_gateway/
  • main.py — CLI entrypoint (argparse, subcommands)
  • app.py — Composition root (config -> db -> fs -> upstreams -> MCP server)
  • lifecycle.py — Startup checks (CheckResult)
  • constants.py — Version strings, WORKSPACE_ID = "local", ID prefixes (art_, bin_), reserved keys
  • config/ — Pydantic settings (GatewayConfig, UpstreamConfig), init/sync/secrets
  • db/ — SQLite backend, repos, migrations
  • mcp/GatewayServer, upstream connections, tool mirroring, handlers
  • mcp/handlers/ — consolidated artifact routing (query_kind=code, next_page) plus mirrored tool handling
  • envelope/Envelope frozen dataclass, ContentPart union, ErrorBlock, normalize/serialize
  • artifacts/ — artifact creation pipeline (persist_artifact)
  • mapping/ — full (in-memory) + partial (streaming) schema discovery
  • retrieval/ — output budget truncation for retrieval responses
  • query/ — JSONPath, select paths, structured filters, SQL compilation
  • pagination/ — auto-pagination loop, metadata extraction
  • cursor/ — Unsigned cursor tokens (cur1.<payload_b64u>), TTL enforcement
  • canon/ — RFC 8785 canonical JSON and compression helpers (gzip/none)
  • codegen/ — code query execution in subprocess with AST safety guards
  • obs/ — structlog setup (LogEvents constants), Prometheus metrics (GatewayMetrics)
  • jobs/ — quota enforcement, soft/hard delete, FS reconciliation
  • Tests: tests/unit/ (~97 files), tests/integration/
  • Docs: docs/ — README.md, quickstart.md, config.md, api_contracts.md, deployment.md, errors.md, observability.md, recipes.md, architecture.md
  • Local dev: local/ — gitignored; place ad-hoc validation scripts, scratch files, and test data here (not in scripts/ which is tracked)

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Changes

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sift-gateway CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository lourencomaciel/sift-gateway (31 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,640 tokens to every session, about $0.0082 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 2026-08-30.

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