codexbar: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

codexbar CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from mryll/codexbar. It costs 857 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Codexbar, a small Bash-based desktop status tool with no build step or external dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing the Bash script, its desktop panel, installation behavior, fallback logic, or related tests.
Why use it?
They document edge cases around command detection, bundled fallbacks, URL decoding, and the fixed data format that connects its parts.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; positional $N argument; reads ~/.codex paths.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mryll/codexbar. 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/mryll/codexbar/master/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mryll/codexbar

Made for: Claude Code.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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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 $0.00857 $0.00857
Opus 5.5 $0.00343 $0.00343
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00171 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00086 $0.00086

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 83d4b3ee3457, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codexbar 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 · 27 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 27 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Tooling

  • Single bash script (codexbar) — no build step, no dependencies to install
  • Install: make install PREFIX=~/.local

Non-Obvious Rules

  • The CLI always runs through /bin/sh -c 'exec "$0" "$@"', never direct. Handing Quickshell 0.3.1 a nonexistent binary can ABORT the whole shell inside the failed start (claudebar#6) — before any QML signal fires, so no handler can catch it. sh always starts; a failed exec is sh exiting 127 (not found) or 126 (not executable). The failed-start discriminator is therefore !sawExit || exitCode === 126 || exitCode === 127 on empty output: !sawExit stays as the belt for a Quickshell that emits neither started nor exited, and 126/127 is a deliberate approximation — a foreign broken codexbar exiting 126/127 empty lands there too, and the bundled fallback is the right move for it as well (the script itself always exits 0). An exited run with empty output and any other code is an operational failure, never "not installed".

  • The bundled-script fallback fires ONLY on a failed start. The plugin clone carries the script, so the panel switches resolvedBin to the clone's copy when PATH cannot start it. PATH first, always: the AUR release wins when it exists. Never fall back on operational errors. A later yay -S applies on the next shell restart.

  • URL→path decodes each segment (mirror of Util.fileUrl). The naive scheme strip is banned; test_bundled_fallback.sh pins it. A bad % degrades to PATH-only.

  • schema_version is pinned to 2 on both sides. A schema bump must change script, panel and tests in one commit.

  • installCmd is the one constant — the message shows it and the button copies it (Util.execArgv(["wl-copy", ...]), no shell line, no trailing newline). The button gates on notInstalled, never on error text.

  • A tooltip meter is PARKED, not rendered in place. The bar has to reach the tooltip's right edge, and that edge is the widest TEXT line — which does not exist yet while the lines are being collected. So a meter pushes METER:<i> into lines plus one entry in the parallel meter_* arrays, and the width pass resolves it. The width pass MUST skip METER: lines, or the measurement is circular. Every meter in one tooltip gets the SAME bar length: they stack, so a reader compares them against each other.

Read the full file on GitHub · 27 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 Changed · -6 lines · +8 tokens per session 83d4b3ee3457
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 33 lines · 849 tokens per session scan A b5e25a8600f9

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codexbar CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mryll/codexbar (18 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 857 tokens to every session, about $0.0034 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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