What is overseer CLAUDE.md?

A project instruction document for Overseer, a desktop app for using local AI coding agents, viewing repositories, chatting with an agent, and working in a terminal.

Use it when developing or reviewing Overseer, especially changes involving agent backends, privacy, performance, or the desktop interface.

It gives contributors the project’s design rules, architecture guidance, commands, and review checklist in one place.

overseer CLAUDE.md — Instructions file for coding agents by marcinbunsch: A project instruction document for Overseer, a desktop app…

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add instructions/marcinbunsch/overseer/claude-md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcinbunsch/overseer

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 1,615 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,615 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

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	$0.01615	$0.01615
Opus 5	$0.00807	$0.00807
Sonnet 5	$0.00323	$0.00323
Haiku 4.5	$0.00161	$0.00161

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8253263ea529, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

overseer 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 5d 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 · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 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.

What is Overseer

Overseer is a desktop GUI frontend for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode). Built with Tauri v2, it provides a three-pane interface: repository/workspace management (left), chat with Claude (middle), and an integrated terminal with changed-files view (right).

For full architecture, component map, data models, and feature documentation, see docs/OVERSEER.md.

Design Principles

These principles must guide all code changes:

Private: No telemetry, no API keys, no cloud integrations. Overseer talks to CLI tools the user installs locally. Never add analytics, tracking, or external service calls.
Performant: No idle polling, no background refreshes, no wasted cycles. Everything is event-driven and reactive. Minimize resource usage — don't add timers, intervals, or periodic fetches.
Extensible: The agent abstraction (AgentService interface in services/types.ts) is designed so new agent backends can be added without modifying existing code. Keep this boundary clean.

Development Commands

pnpm dev          # Full Tauri dev mode (frontend + Rust backend with hot reload)
pnpm build        # Production build (runs tsc + vite build + tauri build)
pnpm vite-dev     # Frontend-only dev server (no Tauri shell)
pnpm vite-build   # TypeScript check + Vite production build
pnpm test         # Run tests (vitest)
pnpm test:watch   # Run tests in watch mode
pnpm checks       # All checks: format + lint + typecheck + rustcheck
pnpm checks:ui    # UI-only checks: format + lint + typecheck
pnpm lint         # ESLint
pnpm format       # Prettier (write)
pnpm format:check # Prettier (check only)

Package manager is pnpm (v10.17.1).

Pre-commit Checklist

Always run before committing:

pnpm checks       # Full check (UI + Rust)
pnpm checks:ui    # UI-only changes (no Rust check)

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Changes

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.

5d ago First seen · 115 lines · 1,615 tokens per session scan A 8253263ea529

Subscribe to this mod's changes

overseer CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository marcinbunsch/overseer (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,615 tokens to every session, about $0.0081 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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