OpenIPC is open-source replacement firmware for popular IP cameras, built for camera processors from several manufacturers. It is used by an open community to run and develop firmware for supported IP camera hardware.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to OpenIPC/firmware. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenIPC/firmware/master/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenIPC/firmwareWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/openipc/firmware/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/openipc/firmware/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/openipc/firmware/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/openipc/firmware/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/openipc/firmware/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.05659 | $0.05659 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.02264 | $0.02264 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01132 | $0.01132 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00566 | $0.00566 |
Grade C, and why
firmware CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 15d 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.
Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation
SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.
`general/overlay/etc/shadow` gives root an **empty hash field**, not a password. A password How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 381 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md
Orientation for anyone — human or AI coding assistant — about to change this repository.
AGENTS.md is a symlink to this file, so Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot and the rest read
the same text.
This file tells you where things are and what will get a pull request closed. It does not replace
the review contract: best_practices.md holds the judgement calls, each one traced to a pull
request that was actually closed, and pr_compliance_checklist.yaml holds the binary gates. Read
best_practices.md before changing anything under general/.
What this is
OpenIPC firmware is a Buildroot external tree that builds images for IP cameras across 13
SoC-vendor trees. Buildroot itself is not vendored — make downloads the version pinned in
BR_VER at the top of the Makefile into $(TARGET)/buildroot-$(BR_VER)/. When you need
Buildroot's own package/, linux/ or toolchain/ logic, read it there; it is not in this repo.
make list prints every board configuration. Do not trust a board count written down anywhere,
including here — the list moves.
One consequence drives every rule below. general/overlay/ and general/package/ are shared, so
a single file there reaches every camera of a family. Those cameras sit in places nobody can
physically reach, there is no staged rollout, and a bad change is discovered only after
sysupgrade has already written it to flash. Weight a change by how many cameras the file you
touched reaches, not by how many lines you changed.
Before you start: is this the right repository?
The most common reason a well-made pull request gets closed here is that it belongs somewhere else. Check this first — it costs a minute and can save an evening.
| What you are changing | Where it goes |
|---|---|
| Kernel source and kernel patches | [OpenIPC/linux][linux] |
| Support for one specific retail camera model | [OpenIPC/builder][builder] |
| Probing, identification, bring-up tooling | [OpenIPC/ipctool][ipctool] |
| HiSilicon sensor drivers and open SDK code | [OpenIPC/openhisilicon][openhisilicon] |
| Sigmastar sensor drivers | [OpenIPC/sensors][sensors] |
| A bug in the video stream itself | majestic's maintainers, not a shim here |
| Documentation, device notes, how-tos | [OpenIPC/wiki][wiki], [docs][docs] |
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.
- 15d ago Changed · +1 lines · +24 tokens per session ea8dda443eea
- 21d ago Changed · +1 lines · +20 tokens per session 4825985b93c8
- 24d ago Changed · +9 lines · +102 tokens per session e8292f97a154
- 25d ago Changed · +1 lines · +18 tokens per session 0a8492647bfb
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +21 tokens per session da4d77a8ba20
- 1mo ago Changed · +23 lines · +509 tokens per session 510347b9faf2
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +17 tokens per session 401a24796033
- 2mo ago Changed · +52 lines · +909 tokens per session scan A → C 8c688fb2b9a8
- 2mo ago First seen · 292 lines · 4,039 tokens per session scan A 67c17fa41cec
firmware CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository OpenIPC/firmware (2,268 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 5,659 tokens to every session, about $0.0226 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
firmware CLAUDE.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| firmware CLAUDE.mdOpenIPC/firmware | Instructions file | 2.3k | yesterday | MIT | C | 5,659 | Claude Code |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |