What is garrys-count CLAUDE.md?

Instructions for Garry's Count, a parody tool that counts lines of code written by Claude Code and shows the total in its status bar. It also provides daily files and a report command.

Use them to install or modify the line-counting hooks, configure counting behavior, inspect daily totals, or generate reports by file type.

They explain how counting, storage, status display, configuration, and reporting fit together so the tool can be installed or changed correctly.

How mrieck/garrys-count configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mrieck/garrys-count. 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/mrieck/garrys-count/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrieck/garrys-count

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 458 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 458 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00458	$0.00458
Opus 5.5	$0.00183	$0.00183
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00092	$0.00092
Haiku 4.5	$0.00046	$0.00046

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 6809a168c896, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

garrys-count CLAUDE.md scanned grade B 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 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- `install.sh` copies scripts to `~/.claude/garryscount/`, adds hooks and statusLine to `~/.claude/settings.json`, installs `/garryscount` skill to `~/.claude/skills/garryscount/`

CLAUDE.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Garry's Count

A parody project that tracks how many lines of code Claude Code writes per day, displayed in the Claude Code status bar.

How it works

PostToolUse hook (scripts/count-hook.sh) fires after every Write/Edit/MultiEdit tool call, counts lines in the new content, and appends to a daily tally file at ~/.claude/garryscount/YYYY-MM-DD.json
Status line (scripts/statusline.sh) reads the tally file and displays Garry's Count: X loc in the status bar
Report skill (skills/garryscount/SKILL.md) — type /garryscount to get a breakdown report by file type with 7-day history

Architecture

Hook receives JSON on stdin with tool_name and tool_input (file_path, content/new_string/old_string)
Daily tally files stored as JSON: {"date":"...","total_lines":N,"count_mode":"...","last_updated":"...","by_extension":{".py":N,...}}
Report script (scripts/report.sh) aggregates daily tally files into a JSON report for the skill
Config at ~/.claude/garryscount/config.json with reset_hour (default 5), count_mode ("default" or "yc-mode"), and show_directory (true/false, default false — shows current directory in orange on the status line)
Day boundary is at reset_hour (5am default), not midnight
Atomic file writes via temp + mv for concurrent session safety

Two counting modes

"default": net new lines only. For Edit, counts new_string lines minus old_string lines.
"yc-mode": every line Claude writes counts, even rewrites. Inflated numbers are the point.

Installation

install.sh copies scripts to ~/.claude/garryscount/, adds hooks and statusLine to ~/.claude/settings.json, installs /garryscount skill to ~/.claude/skills/garryscount/

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.

2mo ago First seen · 28 lines · 458 tokens per session scan B 6809a168c896

Subscribe to this mod's changes

garrys-count CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mrieck/garrys-count (4 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 458 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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