sideboard: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

sideboard CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from mmyslin/sideboard. It costs 893 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Sideboard, a tool that manages roadmaps through GitHub Issues, which are GitHub's trackable work items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when creating, editing, closing, ordering, or sequencing Sideboard roadmap issues with the GitHub command-line tool.
Why use it?
They explain where roadmap data lives and prevent developers from treating the project like one that uses local roadmap files.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions Claude Code.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.00893 $0.00893
Opus 5.5 $0.00357 $0.00357
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00179 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00089 $0.00089

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8746cc779f35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sideboard 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 · 51 lines

What it actually says

Sideboard — working notes for Claude

Sideboard's own roadmap lives in GitHub Issues (mmyslin/sideboard). The project is GitHub-only — there is no roadmap.json / local-file mode.

  • Manage roadmap items via gh — gh issue create / edit / close / reopen. Swimlane (backlog vs in_progress) + card order live in .sideboard/meta.json (committed sidecar); done = a closed issue; a card's #N is its GitHub issue number. The sidecar is reconciled automatically by the router from the issues + your drag/reorder — don't hand-edit it.
  • Sequences — ordered dependency chains of ≥2 issues (in .sideboard/meta.json), managed via the /sideboard:roadmap-sequence command + the router's /api/seq/*. Honor them when working: starting a sequenced issue with an unfinished predecessor → check in first; closing one → suggest the next. See skills/sideboard/SKILL.md → "Acting on a sequenced issue".
  • Repo layout is the plugin layout (#12): commands/ (the sideboard: slash commands), skills/sideboard/SKILL.md, scripts/ (router + shell scripts), hooks/hooks.json, and .claude-plugin/{plugin,marketplace}.json. install.sh is the legacy installer; it copies out of skills/+scripts/.
  • Releasing (version-bump convention): once listed in the community marketplace, Anthropic's CI auto-advances the catalog's commit-SHA pin on every push — but users only receive an update when version in .claude-plugin/plugin.json changes. So push freely (docs, refactors, WIP); bump version (semver) only when you want users to get the change — that bump is the deliberate "ship it" lever. Keep the marketplace entry free of a version field so plugin.json stays the single source of truth. No re-submission is needed for updates (whether each push is re-screened is undocumented).
  • Run the board: scripts/sideboard-up.sh — starts the router (scripts/sideboard_router.py) on :7777, which follows the active project and serves its board. Then open the pane once per project (or use /sideboard:roadmap). Under the plugin the SessionStart hook launches it for you.
  • Multi-project / auto-follow (#35): one router serves ALL projects. A global Claude Code hook (scripts/sideboard-active.sh, on SessionStart + UserPromptSubmit) POSTs the session TITLE to the router, which maps title→project dir (~/.claude/sideboard-projects.json, token-matched, editable) and switches the served board. cwd is useless here (always $HOME) — title is the only signal. The preview pane is per-session, so open it once per project with /sideboard:roadmap; thereafter switching projects (send a message) makes each project's pane show its own roadmap.
  • Discovery keys off .sideboard/meta.json: a project is only picked up once that sidecar exists. Bootstrap a new repo with mkdir -p .sideboard && printf '{"schema": 2}\n' > .sideboard/meta.json (commit it); the router reconciles it from the issues on first sync.
  • Design + phases: docs/github-sync-design.md (#15). Distribution: shipped as a Claude Code plugin (#12) — community-marketplace submission is the remaining discoverability step. Naming decision: #39.

The global sideboard skill (skills/sideboard/SKILL.md) documents this same GitHub-only model — this file is just the repo-specific pointer.

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 · 51 lines · 893 tokens per session scan A 8746cc779f35

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sideboard CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mmyslin/sideboard (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 893 tokens to every session, about $0.0036 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 2026-08-31.

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