absolute: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

absolute CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from maddhruv/absolute. It costs 786 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for Absolute, a development workflow with separate skills for planning, building, improving, and auditing software projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when maintaining Absolute's skills, documentation, project configuration, or engineering-health workflows.
Why use it?
It helps an agent follow the repository's structure and use the appropriate workflow for each kind of development task.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to maddhruv/absolute. 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/maddhruv/absolute/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maddhruv/absolute

Made for: Claude Code.

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absolute 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.

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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 · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Absolute

A focused development workflow engine for AI coding agents: eleven separate skills, each invoked directly — a one-time setup (absolute-init), a build loop (absolute-work, absolute-spec, absolute-ui, absolute-simplify, absolute-docs) and an engineering-health family (absolute-upgrade, absolute-audit, absolute-prune, absolute-debt, absolute-deflake).

Project Structure

skills/
  absolute-init/              # One-time setup: interview + detect → config
    SKILL.md                  # Skill definition (frontmatter + full flow)
    README.md                 # Skill landing page
  absolute-work/              # End-to-end SDLC
    SKILL.md
    README.md
    references/               # Deep-dive guides (intake-playbook, spec-writing, execution-model, etc.)
  absolute-spec/              # Lightweight standalone spec
    SKILL.md
    README.md
  absolute-ui/                # Polished UI design
    SKILL.md
    README.md
    references/               # 25 topic guides (typography, color, forms, etc.)
  absolute-simplify/          # Diff-scoped code simplification
    SKILL.md
    README.md
    references/               # Language guides (golang, javascript, react, python, css, sql, tests, catalog)
  absolute-docs/              # Diátaxis-driven documentation
    SKILL.md
    README.md
    references/               # Doc-type guides (tutorials, how-tos, reference, etc.)
  absolute-upgrade/           # Dependency upgrades
    SKILL.md
    README.md
    references/health-engine.md
  absolute-audit/             # Vulnerability & security scan
    SKILL.md
    README.md
    references/health-engine.md
  absolute-prune/             # Dead code & dependency cleanup
    SKILL.md
    README.md
    references/health-engine.md
  absolute-debt/              # Lint & typecheck debt paydown
    SKILL.md
    README.md
    references/health-engine.md
  absolute-deflake/           # Flaky test fixes
    SKILL.md
    README.md
    references/health-engine.md
CONTRIBUTING.md               # Full contribution guide

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

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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. 1mo ago First seen · 75 lines · 786 tokens per session scan A a572c5834d39

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absolute CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository maddhruv/absolute (223 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 786 tokens to every session, about $0.0031 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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