semiotic: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

semiotic CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from nteract/semiotic. It costs 129 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of project instructions for working on nteract and Semiotic, including where to find chart and API guidance and which rules to follow for blog posts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing Semiotic code, chart or public API behavior, generated documentation, release materials, or blog posts.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent the project’s conventions and tells it when to load more detailed documentation, reducing inconsistent changes and unnecessary context.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

About the project

Semiotic is a React library for building data visualizations such as charts, network graphs, streaming displays, and coordinated dashboards. It is used by developers who need to render data-driven interfaces, including with AI coding assistants. Its schemas and MCP server support the catalogue's add-ons for generating chart code.

nteract/semiotic · 2,717 stars · on GitHub · semiotic.nteract.io

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nteract/semiotic. 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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nteract/semiotic

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 129 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.
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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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00129 $0.00129
Opus 5.5 $0.00052 $0.00052
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00026
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00013

Measured 2mo ago against content hash df63f29dffed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

semiotic 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 · 14 lines

What it actually says

Semiotic Claude Code instructions

@AGENTS.md

Claude Code notes

  • The complete product reference is intentionally not loaded into every coding session. Read ai/system-prompt.md for compact chart/API guidance and only the relevant section of ai/reference.md when deeper detail is necessary.
  • For new blog posts, release summaries, chart explainers, and case studies, read and follow .agents/skills/blog-post/SKILL.md.
  • Use plan mode for broad public-API changes, cross-renderer changes, or work spanning source, schemas, generated documentation, and release surfaces.
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. 2mo ago First seen · 14 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A df63f29dffed

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semiotic CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nteract/semiotic (2,717 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 129 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 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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