megalinter: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

megalinter CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from oxsecurity/megalinter. It costs 2,792 tokens per session, scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

Claude Code instructions for MegaLinter, a tool that runs many code-quality checks. They describe the repository, development setup, shell commands, and use of rtk, a command-output tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on the MegaLinter repository with Claude Code, especially during setup, development, or command-line testing.
Why use it?
They give the coding agent project-specific rules and commands for making and checking changes.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

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

About the project

MegaLinter is a repository analysis tool that runs linters and related checks across source code, infrastructure-as-code, configuration, scripts, formats, spelling, copy-pastes, and security issues. It is for teams that want automated quality checks in GitHub Actions, other CI systems, or local development. The catalogue add-ons help coding agents use and configure MegaLinter and respond to its findings.

oxsecurity/megalinter · 2,615 stars · on GitHub · megalinter.io

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to oxsecurity/megalinter. 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/oxsecurity/megalinter/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 2,792 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,792 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 unknown 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.02792 $0.02792
Opus 5.5 $0.01117 $0.01117
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00558 $0.00558
Haiku 4.5 $0.00279 $0.00279

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3d064f2262cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

megalinter 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 · 194 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 · +3 lines · +69 tokens per session 3d064f2262cc
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 191 lines · 2,723 tokens per session scan A c812027a1ab2

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megalinter CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository oxsecurity/megalinter (2,615 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 2,792 tokens to every session, about $0.0112 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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