ccswarm: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ccswarm CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from nwiizo/ccswarm. It costs 1,830 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project guide for ccswarm, a tool that coordinates coding agents through a repeatable workflow from task planning to implementation, review, and pull request creation. It explains commands, approvals, run records, and provider checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when running ccswarm interactively or automatically, adding tasks from GitHub issues, reviewing past runs, checking available agent providers, or approving a commit or pull request.
Why use it?
It gives an agent the rules for running coding tasks consistently and for stopping before commits or pull requests when approval is required. A pull request is a proposed code change submitted for review.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; runs codex exec.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nwiizo/ccswarm. 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/nwiizo/ccswarm

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Opus 5.5 $0.00732 $0.00732
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00366 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00183 $0.00183

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0161397fda36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

ccswarm 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 · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

What ccswarm does

ccswarm turns coding tasks into reviewable changes through a repeatable flow. Sangha is the product core: shared criteria, separate assessments, evidence, objection resolution, and a recorded decision. The current implementation provides quorum voting; the stricter target and its gaps are documented in Sangha Product Core.

  • Provider-neutral workflow: Claude Code (default) and Codex execute code; GitHub Copilot CLI is probed only for migration diagnostics.
  • Repeatable process: declarative flow YAML defines stages and routing; it does not guarantee identical output or quality.
  • Traceable: NDJSON events + summaries in .ccswarm/runs/<id>/.

Daily usage

ccswarm                              # interactive — ccswarm asks what to build
ccswarm pipeline --task "..."        # single-shot: plan → implement → review
ccswarm queue add "..."              # accumulate tasks during the day
ccswarm queue add --from-issue 42    # ingest a GitHub issue as a task
ccswarm queue drain                  # run all pending, y/n at commit+PR time
ccswarm auto --require-approval      # unattended; pauses before commit until
                                     #   `ccswarm approve commit --id <run-id>`
ccswarm doctor                       # probe all providers (claude/codex/gh copilot)

After a run

ccswarm run list                    # recent runs
ccswarm tail                         # follow events of the current run, tail-like
ccswarm cost <run-id>                # duration + token breakdown
ccswarm run view <run-id>            # full event log
ccswarm run diff <a> <b>             # compare two runs' timelines
ccswarm replay <run-id>              # re-execute the recorded task
ccswarm undo <run-id>                # advisory: show commits since run started

Authoring flows

ccswarm flow list                   # builtin + custom flows
ccswarm flow new <name>             # scaffold a new flow (minimal|faceted)
ccswarm flow render <name>          # preview composed prompts per stage
ccswarm flow check <name>           # validate flow YAML
ccswarm flow eject <name>           # copy builtin to .ccswarm/flows/
ccswarm facets [personas|policies|knowledge]  # list facet library

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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.

  1. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines · +45 tokens per session 0161397fda36
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 163 lines · 1,785 tokens per session scan A 7f81086c5fab

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ccswarm CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nwiizo/ccswarm (153 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,830 tokens to every session, about $0.0073 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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