totem: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

totem CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from mmnto-ai/totem. It costs 138 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A short entry guide for Totem that directs AI coding agents to the project’s main AGENTS.md file. AGENTS.md is a shared instruction file describing how agents should work in a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting work in Totem and finding the repository rules that apply to Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and other AI coding tools.
Why use it?
It prevents agents from following incomplete or outdated instructions by pointing them to the project’s single source of truth.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is mmnto-ai/totem's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on totem 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 totem configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 138 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 138 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00138 $0.00138
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.00069
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00014

Measured 10d ago against content hash 672f2f0893d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

totem 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 10d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

CLAUDE.md · 8 lines

What it actually says

Totem: Claude Code Entry Point

The canonical agent instructions for this repository live in AGENTS.md.

Per Totem ADR-038 "AGENTS.md Standard Adoption", mmnto-ai/totem uses a single AGENTS.md as the source of truth for how all AI coding agents (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, etc.) should behave here. This file exists only so Claude Code finds its way to AGENTS.md.

Read AGENTS.md before doing anything else.

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. 10d ago First seen · 8 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A 672f2f0893d9

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totem CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mmnto-ai/totem (17 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 138 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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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