xbrain: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

xbrain CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from mrboups/xbrain. It costs 5,300 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file that tells Claude Code about the repository, its current state, planning documents, and required development workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps Claude Code understand where services, planning files, deployment setup, and workflow commands belong.
Why use it?
It keeps the coding agent aligned with project rules and authoritative information instead of relying on outdated assumptions.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.05300 $0.05300
Opus 5.5 $0.02120 $0.02120
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01060 $0.01060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00530 $0.00530

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 29efc789e12a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xbrain 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 1mo 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 · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project status

In production. 27 phases have shipped (Phase 1 on 2026-05-03 through Phase 27 on 2026-08-01), deployed on a GCP VM via Docker Compose. Concretely, as of 2026-08-13:

  • apps/ holds 19 services plus one spike; infrastructure/docker-compose.yml defines 34 services across four opt-in profiles.
  • apps/memory-api is the single write path — FastAPI + SQLAlchemy, alembic head 0034_team_message_private_lane.
  • .planning/phases/ carries 28 directories — 01 → 27, plus the inserted 03.5.

Vision (one line): xbrain is a collective persistent-memory system for humans + agents organised by team — not a chatbot workspace. Differentiator is the memory + truth-level + team-scope layer, not the frontend.

.planning/PROJECT.md, REQUIREMENTS.md, ROADMAP.md, and STATE.md are the authoritative planning sources — prefer them over this file. When they disagree with the code, the code wins and the planning file is stale; say so rather than working from it.

Workflow: GSD is the build system

Development flows through GSD slash commands, not ad-hoc edits. The hooks in .claude/settings.json (workflow guard, phase boundary, commit validation, read-before-edit guard) enforce this — they fire on Write/Edit/Bash tool calls. Bypassing them defeats the point.

Entry points (run in order on a fresh project):

  1. /gsd:new-project — initialises .planning/ (PROJECT.md, REQUIREMENTS.md, ROADMAP.md, STATE.md). Use --auto @docs/idea.md to skip the wizard when the brief is already written.
  2. /gsd:plan-phase <N> — produces a sub-plan for phase N before any code is touched.
  3. /gsd:execute-phase <N> — runs the sub-plan with verification gates and atomic commits per task.

/gsd:help lists the full 65-command surface. Common adjuncts: /gsd:resume-work, /gsd:progress, /gsd:debug, /gsd:review, /gsd:undo.

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 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. 1mo ago First seen · 218 lines · 5,300 tokens per session scan A 29efc789e12a

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xbrain CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mrboups/xbrain (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,300 tokens to every session, about $0.0212 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 2026-09-03.

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