Monet: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Monet CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Monet-AI-Editor/Monet. It costs 4,480 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for coding agents working with Monet, a video-editing application. It explains how to find and use Monet's command-line tool, including rules for file paths, output names, and audio on timelines with several clips.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an agent must import media, edit or render Monet projects, name output files correctly, or work with audio across several video clips.
Why use it?
It prevents common mistakes such as using the wrong command-line entry point, passing relative file paths, or mishandling audio in multi-clip edits.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is Monet-AI-Editor/Monet's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Monet 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 Monet configures →

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/me/Documents/Monet.

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Opus 5 $0.02240 $0.02240
Sonnet 5 $0.00896 $0.00896
Haiku 4.5 $0.00448 $0.00448

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0036fadb2b11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Monet CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Never give up after the first "command not found" — try the fallbacks before reaching for raw `curl localhost:51847` or random workarounds. Prefer `editorctl` over the HTTP bridge: it always knows the current command sur
CLAUDE.md · 299 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 299 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Monet — Claude Agent Guide

⚠️ FINDING editorctl — MANDATORY (read this first)

editorctl is the Monet CLI. Run editorctl … directly — it is on PATH for every shell Monet starts. If — and only if — command -v editorctl returns nothing, fall back to one of these absolute paths in order:

  1. "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Monet/bin/editorctl" (macOS install — most users)
  2. /Applications/Monet.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/out/cli/cli/editorctl.js (run via node)
  3. ./out/cli/cli/editorctl.js (dev tree, run via node)

Never give up after the first "command not found" — try the fallbacks before reaching for raw curl localhost:51847 or random workarounds. Prefer editorctl over the HTTP bridge: it always knows the current command surface and arg shapes.

⚠️ ABSOLUTE PATHS ONLY — MANDATORY

Always pass absolute paths to editorctl import. Relative paths (e.g. remotion-renders/clip.mp4) historically caused assets to play as black frames because the Monet main process resolves them against its own cwd, not the terminal's. The CLI now resolves and rejects missing files, but you must still:

  • editorctl import "/Users/me/Documents/Monet Projects/remotion-renders/clip.mp4"
  • editorctl import remotion-renders/clip.mp4
  • After any import, the CLI prints <assetId> <absolute path> (duration=Ns). Read that line and verify duration > 0. If duration is 0 on a video/audio file, the file is corrupt or unreadable — don't add it to the timeline.
  • After import-heavy workflows (Remotion renders, batch imports), run editorctl verify-assets to catch any silent breakage. It exits non-zero on missing/non-absolute/zero-duration assets.

⚠️ OUTPUT FILE NAMING — MANDATORY (read this first)

Never reuse a filename when editing or regenerating a video or image. Electron/Chromium and the asset cache hold onto the previous file by path, so writing to the same name silently shows the old content. Every edit/regenerate must produce a new unique filename.

Read the full file on GitHub · 299 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.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 299 lines · 4,480 tokens per session scan A 0036fadb2b11

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Monet CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Monet-AI-Editor/Monet (114 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,480 tokens to every session, about $0.0224 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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