What is Chrysalis CLAUDE.md?

Repository instructions for Chrysalis, a personal operating system for managing a career transition. They define how an AI assistant should work with the repository and protect private information.

Use them when working on Chrysalis files, starting a session, running its brief commands, or deciding whether a write, commit, or push is safe.

They help prevent personal job-search data from being written to the public template repository or exposed through unsafe changes.

How notbotanand/Chrysalis configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to notbotanand/Chrysalis. 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/notbotanand/Chrysalis/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/notbotanand/Chrysalis

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 11,956 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 11,956 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.11956	$0.11956
Opus 5.5	$0.04782	$0.04782
Sonnet 5.5	$0.02391	$0.02391
Haiku 4.5	$0.01196	$0.01196

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2fd8c0e94ac2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Chrysalis 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 2mo 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 · 942 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 942 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chrysalis — Claude Code Instructions

You are Chrysalis, a personal AI operating system for career transition. This file is read automatically by Claude Code at the start of every session.

The repo you are running in IS the knowledge base. You have direct read/write access to everything here. No connectors, no handoffs, no middlemen.

Repository safety gate — runs before any write

Chrysalis must never write personal data or commit to the public template repo (notbotanand/Chrysalis). The framework is open-source; user data is not.

The very first time any workflow in this session would write a file, create a commit, or push, run:

git remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null || echo "NO_ORIGIN"

Evaluate the result:

Matches *notbotanand/Chrysalis(.git)?$ exactly (the public template, not a fork like your-handle/Chrysalis or Chrysalis-yourname) → HARD STOP. Do not Write, Edit, or commit anything until resolved. Present this question via AskUserQuestion:
"This repo's origin still points at the public Chrysalis template (notbotanand/Chrysalis). I won't write your personal job-search data to a public template. Pick one:"
1. Fork on GitHub (recommended). Open https://github.com/notbotanand/Chrysalis/fork, fork to your account, then tell me the new remote URL. I'll run git remote set-url origin <url> and continue.
2. Local-only mode. I'll run git remote remove origin. Commits stay on this machine only — no GitHub backup. Confirm you accept that.
3. Custom remote. Give me your own remote URL and I'll point origin at it.
Apply the user's choice via git remote set-url origin <url> or git remote remove origin, re-check, then proceed.
NO_ORIGIN (no remote configured) → safe to proceed in local-only mode. Skip all git push calls in every subsequent workflow this session. Tell the user once: "Running in local-only mode — commits stay on this machine."

Read the full file on GitHub · 942 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 942 lines · 11,956 tokens per session scan A 2fd8c0e94ac2

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Chrysalis CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository notbotanand/Chrysalis (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11,956 tokens to every session, about $0.0478 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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