stepwise-dev: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

stepwise-dev CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from nikeyes/stepwise-dev. It costs 5 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Instructions for a Claude Code workflow project that organizes development into research, planning, implementation, and validation. It includes reusable skills, specialized agents, shell scripts, and a local thoughts/ directory for persistent notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Researching a codebase, creating and updating plans, implementing and validating changes, managing project thoughts, reviewing pull-request comments, and applying test-driven development (TDD), where tests guide the implementation.
Why use it?
It gives Claude Code a repeatable process for working on software instead of treating every task as an unstructured coding session. The repository is split into separate plugins so workflow, Git, and related tools can be maintained independently.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is nikeyes/stepwise-dev's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on stepwise-dev 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 stepwise-dev configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Opus 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00002
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Grade A, and why

stepwise-dev 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 · 2 lines

What it actually says

@AGENTS.md

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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stepwise-dev CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nikeyes/stepwise-dev (24 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 5 tokens to every session, about $0.0000 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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