awesome-ai-scientists: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

awesome-ai-scientists CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from natnew/awesome-ai-scientists. It costs 1,635 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for maintaining an organised list of AI scientists and related documentation. They define how the main README and the website documentation should stay aligned.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when reviewing changes, triaging issues, updating the list, or synchronising README entries with the website.
Why use it?
They help maintainers add and review entries consistently without expanding the project's scope or letting its two public indexes drift apart.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is natnew/awesome-ai-scientists's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on awesome-ai-scientists 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 awesome-ai-scientists configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to natnew/awesome-ai-scientists. 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/natnew/awesome-ai-scientists/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/natnew/awesome-ai-scientists

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Grade A, and why

awesome-ai-scientists 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 · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Claude-specific operating layer for awesome-ai-scientists, a curated list of resources for building AI Scientist systems. There is no application code: the work is curating Markdown across two surfaces and keeping CI green. AGENTS.md is the full protocol (scope, trust boundary, quality bar, decision matrix, protected areas, comment style). This file does not restate it. Where the two overlap, AGENTS.md wins, with one exception: for entry format, the live files win (see below).

Map

Path Role
README.md Canonical public index, grouped by lifecycle → domain → meta sections. Also checked by awesome-lint.
website/docs/workflows.md, domains.md The only site pages that hold tagged entries, under ### … {#slug} headings.
website/docs/workflows.md, domains.md, resource-types.md Source of truth for the taxonomy slugs. The slug tables in AGENTS.md and CONTRIBUTING.md copy them.
website/docs/start-here.md Tagging convention: primary slug first, multi-value axes.
website/src/, docusaurus.config.ts, sidebars.ts Site infrastructure. Doc order in sidebars.ts must match each doc's sidebar_position.
website/scripts/ link-check.mjs checks README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md and website/docs/*.md; check-sidebar-order.mjs.
CONTRIBUTING.md, .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/*, pull_request_template.md Contributor workflow. Resource additions are issue-first.
skills/, .agent/ Maintainer tooling, not part of the catalogue. Ignore unless asked. feature-spec needs the local-only specs/.

specs/ is gitignored and usually absent. Docs that cite specs/… point to maintainer-local files. Do not create or edit it.

Entry formats (the most common source of errors)

Match the neighbouring entries in the file you edit. Never cross formats.

  • README: - [Name](url) - One neutral sentence. Hyphen separator, no tags.
  • Site (workflows.md, domains.md), as used by 58 of 59 live entries:

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 lines

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awesome-ai-scientists CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository natnew/awesome-ai-scientists (20 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,635 tokens to every session, about $0.0065 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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