Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to LukasZhao/memory-inheritance. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LukasZhao/memory-inheritance/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LukasZhao/memory-inheritanceWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/lukaszhao/memory-inheritance/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/lukaszhao/memory-inheritance/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/lukaszhao/memory-inheritance/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/lukaszhao/memory-inheritance/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/lukaszhao/memory-inheritance/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00310 | $0.00310 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00124 | $0.00124 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00062 | $0.00062 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00031 | $0.00031 |
Grade A, and why
memory-inheritance 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 1mo 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.
What it actually says
CLAUDE.md
This repository uses Memory Inheritance.
Required Context
Before editing this repository, read:
PROJECT_MEMORY.md
PROJECT_MEMORY.md is the compact canonical project memory for this codebase.
Token-aware Reading Rule
Do not load all files under .memory/ by default.
Use .memory/index.json as a reference index. Read detailed memory files only when they are directly relevant to the current task.
Prioritize references with higher criticality scores when context is limited.
Examples:
- Editing CLI command behavior -> read
.memory/modules/cli.md - Editing safe sync logic -> read
.memory/modules/markdown-sync.md - Editing memory file templates -> read
.memory/modules/templates.md - Editing test coverage -> read
.memory/modules/testing.md - Understanding recent project changes -> read
.memory/modules/git-memory.md
Claude Code Instructions
- Preserve manual notes in
PROJECT_MEMORY.md. - Follow existing project architecture unless the user explicitly requests a change.
- Keep edits focused and incremental.
- If the task changes the project structure, run:
npx mem-extract sync
- If the task changes project intent or architecture, update the relevant manual section in
PROJECT_MEMORY.md.
Do Not
- Do not overwrite human-written memory sections.
- Do not convert the project into a different architecture without asking.
- Do not delete memory files unless explicitly requested.
- Do not read every
.memory/file unless the user explicitly asks for full context.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 310 tokens per session scan A 5632c2e43284
memory-inheritance CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository LukasZhao/memory-inheritance (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 310 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-31.
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