continuous-improvement: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

continuous-improvement CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement. It costs 1,703 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for a continuous-improvement package, which is a Claude Code plugin and GitHub Action transcript checker. They require planning, test-driven development, and verification after changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when modifying the package, its plugins, workflows, build pipeline, tests, or release-related files.
Why use it?
They set quality and safety rules for changing a project that checks coding-agent transcripts and includes several plugin components.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is naimkatiman/continuous-improvement's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on continuous-improvement 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 continuous-improvement configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

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CLAUDE.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — continuous-improvement

Project-local rules for AI coding agents. Global rules live in ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md. This file only adds what is specific to this repo.

Repository

  • npm package continuous-improvement (Claude Code plugin + GitHub Action transcript linter)
  • Marketplace at .claude-plugin/marketplace.json ships 5 plugins: 1 native + 4 vendored companions (Obra superpowers, addy/agent-skills, ruflo-swarm, oh-my-claudecode). pm-skills is out-of-band per docs/THIRD_PARTY.md.
  • Source layout: skills/, commands/, hooks/, agents/, bin/, lib/, templates/, instinct-packs/, synthetic-checks/, third-party/, plugins/continuous-improvement/.

Think Before Acting

  • For any non-trivial request, produce a short plan before editing files. Under the 7 Laws this is Law 2.
  • When the user references prior work (PR #X, last session's fix), verify it exists with gh pr view X or git log before acting on the assumption.
  • Use TDD for new features: failing test → code → verify. The native tdd-workflow skill enforces RED-GREEN-REFACTOR strictly — pre-test code is deleted.

Verification Discipline

  • After any code change, run npm run verify:all (18 content invariants + typecheck: skill-mirror, skill-tiers, skill-law-tag, skill-count, skill-count-prose, command-count, test-count, invariant-count, docs-substrings, everything-mirror, routing-targets, doc-runtime-claims, test-imports-only, landing-version, scripts-citation-drift, third-party-shape, tool-count, reconcile-parity, typecheck). Anything below that is incomplete.
  • For doc-only or template-only changes, npm run typecheck is the floor.
  • Run all commands from repo root. Verify CWD with pwd if a previous step may have changed it.
  • Never claim "verified" or "done" without the passing output. Silence is not a pass.

Build pipeline (CRITICAL)

  • .mts files under src/ are the source. .mjs files in bin/, lib/, test/ are generated by tsc.
  • Direct edits to .mjs files are wiped on next npm run build and fail CI's git diff --exit-code -- bin test lib plugins invariant. PR #66 was rejected for exactly this; PRs #73/#74 shipped the fix.
  • After editing .mts: npm run build regenerates the .mjs. Commit both.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  2. 1mo ago Changed · -27 lines · -2,015 tokens per session ec5e467b95fd
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 102 lines · 3,712 tokens per session scan A 0fd86f5d6963

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continuous-improvement CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository naimkatiman/continuous-improvement (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,703 tokens to every session, about $0.0068 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 2026-08-31.

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