slayer: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

slayer CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from MotleyAI/slayer. It costs 1,405 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project guide for SLayer, a semantic layer that lets AI agents request data in plain terms and generates database queries instead of requiring raw SQL.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or operating SLayer, its APIs and protocols, query engine, storage, memory, search, or MCP server.
Why use it?
It explains the system’s parts, commands, and where to find the authoritative documentation for query behavior.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to MotleyAI/slayer. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MotleyAI/slayer

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Grade A, and why

slayer 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 16d 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 · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Guidance for Claude Code when working in this repository.

What is SLayer?

SLayer (Semantic Layer) is a lightweight, open-source (MIT) semantic layer for AI agents, built by MotleyAI. Instead of writing raw SQL, agents describe what data they want — measures, dimensions, filters — and SLayer generates and executes the query.

When writing SLayer query examples or answering questions about syntax, capabilities, or feature behaviour, read docs/ first — docs/concepts/ (queries, models, formulas, references), docs/examples/, docs/cube/cube_import.md, docs/database-support.md, docs/configuration/, docs/reference/.

Structure

The package map and per-node docs live in architecture/: package→node claims in the node metadata of the LikeC4 model architecture/model.c4 (enforced by la-arch-check from MotleyAI/living-architecture), repo-wide settings in architecture/index.yaml, node descriptions in architecture/*.arc42.md, cross-cutting principles in architecture/system.arc42.md §3, and the enforcement-bundle commands in §4.

architecture/**/*.arc42.md and architecture/**/*.c4 are normative harnesses, like tests: NEVER create, modify, or delete one without explicit per-change user approval — present the exact edit and wait for the OK, even when a broader plan already mentioned it.

Common Commands

poetry install -E all                                # install with all extras
poetry run pytest -m "not integration"               # unit tests (excludes integration)
poetry run pytest tests/ -m "integration and not metabase_e2e" -n logical --dist loadscope \
  --ignore=tests/integration/test_integration_mysql.py \
  --ignore=tests/integration/test_integration_clickhouse.py \
  --ignore=tests/integration/test_integration_sqlserver.py \
  --ignore=tests/integration/test_integration_trino.py      # integration tests (CI settings — see Testing)
poetry run pytest tests/test_sql_generator.py -v     # one file
poetry run slayer serve                              # REST API server
poetry run slayer mcp                                # MCP server
poetry run ruff check slayer/ tests/                 # lint
poetry run la-arch-check                             # architecture check (as CI runs it)
poetry run la-arch-diagrams                          # regenerate arc42 diagrams

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slayer CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository MotleyAI/slayer (313 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,405 tokens to every session, about $0.0056 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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