What is claudekit-cli CLAUDE.md?

A guide to ClaudeKit CLI, a command-line tool that installs and explains kits for AI-assisted coding and marketing work.

It guides the Engineer kit for coding workflows, the Marketing kit for content tasks, or installation of both.

It defines how the CLI should help people understand their options and reach a working setup with clear next steps.

How mrgoonie/claudekit-cli configures Claude Code

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When invoked 4,002 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

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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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.04002	$0.04002
Opus 5.5	$0.01601	$0.01601
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00800	$0.00800
Haiku 4.5	$0.00400	$0.00400

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f34f932e467a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

claudekit-cli 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 · 313 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 313 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ClaudeKit CLI

🎯 Core Mission

This CLI is the front door to ClaudeKit. Every command, prompt, and message serves one purpose: empower users to understand and adopt the CK stack.

The Two Imperatives

Educate — Users must understand what ClaudeKit is, what each kit offers, and why it matters to their workflow. No blind installation. Informed adoption.
Install — Zero friction from discovery to working setup. Whether Engineer, Marketing, or both — the path must be clear, fast, and successful.

Design Philosophy

Show, don't tell — Feature previews over marketing copy
Guide, don't gatekeep — Sensible defaults, optional depth
Succeed, don't abandon — Every install ends with working config + clear next steps
Respect time — Fast paths for experts, guided paths for newcomers

The Kits

Kit	Purpose	Audience
Engineer	AI-powered coding: skills, hooks, multi-agent workflows	Developers building with Claude
Marketing	Content automation: campaigns, social, analytics	Marketers leveraging AI

Both kits share the ClaudeKit foundation. Users can install one or both.

CLI tool (ck) for bootstrapping/updating ClaudeKit projects from GitHub releases.

🎯 Core Principle

User experience is paramount. The CLI is users' first touchpoint with ClaudeKit. Prioritize clarity over cleverness: intuitive commands, helpful errors, minimal friction from install to daily use.

CRITICAL: Quality Gate

MUST pass before ANY commit/PR. No exceptions.

bun run ci:local

bun run ci:local is the single source of truth for what passing CI means. It runs the exact same 7 steps as the Test job in .github/workflows/ci.yml, in the same order, with the same env vars. If ci:local passes, the CI Test job will pass — modulo network/env quirks.

The pre-push git hook calls into the same script, so hook ↔ CI parity can never silently drift. AI sessions MUST run bun run ci:local before pushing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 313 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.

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claudekit-cli CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mrgoonie/claudekit-cli (116 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,002 tokens to every session, about $0.0160 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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