ax: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ax CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Necmttn/ax. It costs 16,543 tokens per session, scanned B, original, AGPL-3.0.

A project instruction set for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant. It explains the project’s setup, how agents claim shared work, and how to credit shareable output.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide Claude Code on project conventions, team work allocation, the technology stack, and attribution.
Why use it?
It gives the assistant consistent project rules and reduces confusion when several agents work on the same codebase.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 16,543 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 16,543 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 unknown 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.16543 $0.16543
Opus 5.5 $0.06617 $0.06617
Sonnet 5.5 $0.03309 $0.03309
Haiku 4.5 $0.01654 $0.01654

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 983803130305, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ax 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 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

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

exists; falls back to `~/.codex/config.toml` otherwise. New/changed entries
CLAUDE.md · 810 lines

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Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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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 First seen · 810 lines · 16,543 tokens per session scan B 983803130305

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ax CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Necmttn/ax (122 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 16,543 tokens to every session, about $0.0662 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 2026-08-30.

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