headlights: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

headlights CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from mbadran/headlights. It costs 30 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository instruction file for headlights that points agents to AGENTS.md for the complete architecture notes, coding conventions, and task guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as the starting point for development work in the headlights repository.
Why use it?
It directs the agent to the project’s main instructions before it changes code.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00030 $0.00030
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00012
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00006
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00003

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 207755cf2284, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

headlights 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 2mo 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 · 4 lines

What it actually says

Claude Instructions

Read AGENTS.md for complete context, architecture notes, coding conventions, and task guidance before making changes to this repository.

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.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 4 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 207755cf2284

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headlights CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mbadran/headlights (87 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session, about $0.0001 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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