maias: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

maias CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from MAIAS-project/maias. It costs 1,509 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project-specific instruction set for MAIAS, an open format for describing the information architecture of mobile apps. It defines the project’s terms, file locations, and change rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on MAIAS documents, such as renaming navigation items or updating the app’s information architecture. It guides the agent toward the right specifications and files.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent the project context needed to make consistent changes. It also helps prevent edits that bypass the authoritative schema or leave the app and navigation out of sync.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is MAIAS-project/maias's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on maias 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 maias configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to MAIAS-project/maias. 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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MAIAS-project/maias

Made for: Claude Code.

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CLAUDE.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Conventions

This repo is MAIAS (Mobile App Information Architecture Schema): an open standard plus tooling, generalised from an earlier working prototype. The authoritative definition of MAIAS documents is the spec at docs/spec/ (condensed agent reference: docs/spec/llms.txt) and schema/maias.schema.json — the IA Schema section below is a convenience summary and defers to the spec wherever they disagree.

Terminology

  • "IA" refers to the MAIAS document being worked on — one of the examples/*/maias.yaml documents or a user-supplied file (spec 0.3 shape: a maias: version header, elements: lists, neutral element type names — see docs/spec/05-elements.md)
  • "Primary" refers to the primary navigation elements present at the 'root' of the app IA
  • "Secondary" refers to the secondary navigation elements, usually these change depending upon context and lead to other screens in the app
  • "Actions" refer to interactive elements which don't lead anywhere

Changes

  • Any changes must be made to the IA first, and then rendered automatically in the app and quick nav
  • If I ask for any changes to be made the IA items, such as renaming, always ensure that the corresponding paths and references in the flows and navigation are also updated
  • Validate IA changes with ./node_modules/.bin/maias validate <file> and format with maias fmt <file> --write (built from packages/cli)
  • Quality gate before any commit: npm run typecheck (workspaces) + npx vitest run at the repo root + npx tsc --noEmit in MAIAS_browser/

IA Schema

Navigation

Top-level navigation defines which screens are accessible globally.

navigation:
  primary:
    label: <string>              # Display label for the nav group
    screens:                     # Screens shown in the persistent tab bar
      - <screen_id>
  secondary:
    label: <string>
    screens:                     # All non-primary screens in the app
      - <screen_id>
  • Primary screens appear in the tab bar and are always accessible
  • Secondary screens are all other screens, listed here as a registry
  • Every screen in the app must appear in either primary.screens or secondary.screens

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

Changes

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maias CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository MAIAS-project/maias (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,509 tokens to every session, about $0.0075 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 2026-08-31.

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