vv-claude-harness: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

vv-claude-harness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from oeftimie/vv-claude-harness. It costs 575 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for vv-claude-harness, a repository using Claude Code and a long-running agent harness to manage development work. They explain project state, progress tracking, tests, and quality checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when preparing or implementing harness issues, checking feature progress, running smoke or full tests, or working with Claude hooks and repository scope rules.
Why use it?
They tell the agent which context and progress files to read and which checks must pass before work is considered complete.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is oeftimie/vv-claude-harness's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on vv-claude-harness 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 vv-claude-harness configures →

Runs only inside a plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to oeftimie/vv-claude-harness. 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/oeftimie/vv-claude-harness/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oeftimie/vv-claude-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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Opus 5 $0.00287 $0.00287
Sonnet 5 $0.00115 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00057 $0.00057

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2433a4db960e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vv-claude-harness 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 10d 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 · 38 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 38 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@AGENTS.md

Claude Code

This section is Claude-specific overlay only; everything agent-agnostic lives in AGENTS.md above (imported via the documented @path syntax -- see https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory#agentsmd). Do not restate a fact from AGENTS.md here; if a Claude-specific detail and an AGENTS.md fact start to overlap, fix AGENTS.md, don't duplicate it here.

Harness

This project uses the Long-Running Agent Harness (vv-harness plugin) to manage its own v5 upgrade (Linear epic OVI-44). The distribution-content caveat above still applies: templates/, rules/, and skills/ remain plugin source, but .harness/ and .claude/ are live project state for this repo.

  • Feature tracking: .harness/features.json (F001–F021 mirror the OVI-44 sub-issues)
  • Context and decisions: .harness/context_summary.md (READ THIS at session start)
  • Progress handoff: .harness/claude-progress.txt
  • Build/test: .harness/init.sh (smoke_test = shell syntax + manifest JSON checks; full_test = bash test/run-tests.sh)
  • Quality gates: .claude/hooks/ (TaskCompleted, scope, git identity)

Harness Prep: Risk/Lane Self-Classification

When /harness-issue-prep needs lane/risk for a readiness stamp, apply the existing dynamic-override heuristic in rules/parallel-work.md (10+ files, cross-cutting concerns, security-sensitive code, first feature in a new codebase → elevated) without asking. Only ask when the call is genuinely close.

Path Resolution and Hook Testing

Skill/rule/agent content shipped by this plugin references other shipped files via ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/path/to/file, Claude Code's runtime plugin-cache variable -- never a bare repo-relative path, since the installed cache path differs from this checkout. Use the same convention when editing skills/, rules/, or agents/.

Most files under hooks/ and the .sh.template/.py.template files under skills/harness-init/ are Claude Code lifecycle hooks (e.g. SessionStart, SessionEnd, PreToolUse, PostToolUse, TaskCompleted; statusline.sh is not a lifecycle hook). Test one directly the way .claude/settings.json invokes it: echo '{}' | CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR=<project> bash <hook>.sh, matching test/run-tests.sh's own run_hook helper.

Read the full file on GitHub · 38 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. 10d ago First seen · 38 lines · 575 tokens per session scan A 2433a4db960e

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vv-claude-harness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository oeftimie/vv-claude-harness (19 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 575 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 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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