ai-saas-starter: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ai-saas-starter CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from nikandr-surkov/ai-saas-starter. It costs 228 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for an AI SaaS starter built with Next.js, including user accounts, paid subscriptions, usage credits, and AI image generation. It also describes the project’s skills, rules, hooks, and checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding features, AI providers, database migrations, or changes to billing and credit code in this starter.
Why use it?
It highlights the extra review and testing requirements for billing, credits, databases, and authentication, where mistakes can affect money or user access.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is nikandr-surkov/ai-saas-starter's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ai-saas-starter 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 ai-saas-starter configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nikandr-surkov/ai-saas-starter. 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/nikandr-surkov/ai-saas-starter/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nikandr-surkov/ai-saas-starter

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Security scan A 0 findings. 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

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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.

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Opus 5 $0.00114 $0.00114
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00023

Measured 9d ago against content hash 47acb6f3e4de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

ai-saas-starter 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 9d 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 · 17 lines

What it actually says

@AGENTS.md

Claude Code specifics

  • Use plan mode for any change under src/lib/billing/ or src/lib/credits/ — money and ledger code gets a reviewed plan first.
  • Scoped rules load automatically from .claude/rules/ (billing, database, design). Follow them; they restate the invariants that matter most.
  • Skills for common jobs — prefer them over improvising:
    • /add-feature — scaffold a page + server action + test the repo way.
    • /add-ai-provider — implement src/lib/ai/provider.ts for a new provider.
    • /db-migration — schema change → generated migration → review → apply.
  • The code-reviewer agent (.claude/agents/code-reviewer.md) reviews auth/billing/ledger diffs read-only. Run it before committing changes there.
  • Hooks: Prettier runs after every file edit; pnpm typecheck runs when you stop — a type error blocks completion, fix it before finishing.
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. 9d ago First seen · 17 lines · 228 tokens per session scan A 47acb6f3e4de

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ai-saas-starter CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nikandr-surkov/ai-saas-starter (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 228 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 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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