What is starboard CLAUDE.md?

Repository-specific instructions for Claude Code working on the Starboard Swift app. They document commands, code style, architecture, and decisions that may not be obvious from the source code.

Use them when building, running, or modifying Starboard, including its menu-bar behavior, settings panels, themes, and Dock integration.

They give coding agents the project rules and practical context needed to make changes that fit the existing codebase.

How palamim/starboard configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to palamim/starboard. 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/palamim/starboard/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/palamim/starboard

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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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.

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Per session 1,983 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,983 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.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01983	$0.01983
Opus 5.5	$0.00793	$0.00793
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00397	$0.00397
Haiku 4.5	$0.00198	$0.00198

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1d212a9c6367, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

starboard 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 · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Guidance for Claude Code working in this repo.

Commands

Build: swift build
Run: .build/debug/Starboard, backgrounded (swift run blocks the terminal on stdout/stderr)
No tests, linters, or CI beyond .github/workflows/build.yml.

Code style

Zero comments in Sources/Starboard/, by design — this file is the only place rationale lives. If you add non-obvious logic, document the why here, not inline.

Architecture

Plain SPM executable, no Xcode project, no Info.plist — main.swift sets .accessory activation policy directly instead. AppDelegate's behavior is split across AppDelegate+*.swift extensions by concern (the invisible main menu bar, the clickable popup panel menu, Dock-tracking state machine, Dock-relative geometry, screen resolution, Dock Accessibility reads, debug logging, theme switching, panel appearance settings, the Accessibility fallback hint); DockPresence, PanelBuilder, TerminalTheme, PanelSettings, Theme, ThemePickerView, SettingsPanelView, TerminalLayout, ShellEnvironment, FallbackHintPanel, and Mascot are standalone. Read the code for how it works — it's small and the names are literal.

Panel corner radius, background tint opacity, and terminal font are all user-adjustable at runtime via the "Settings…" panel menu item (SettingsPanelView/AppDelegate+Settings.swift), persisted in UserDefaults through PanelSettings. Corner radius always has a concrete value (defaults to TerminalTheme.defaultCornerRadius until overridden); tint opacity is nil until the user touches the slider, so switching themes still shows each theme's own baked-in alpha rather than silently forcing one opacity on every theme; font name likewise falls back to TerminalTheme.defaultFontName (the first installed preferred Nerd Font, else the system monospace font) until overridden. The font picker enumerates installed fonts, keeps those marked monospaced by AppKit, and presents one regular-preferred face per family while storing its PostScript name. Font size (issue #10) is a settings slider clamped to 9–20pt, plus Cmd+= / Cmd+- / Cmd+0 key equivalents on the invisible main menu bar (they work for the same reason Cmd+E/T/Q do — see the gotcha below). Panel width was deliberately left out of this — the whole product idea is gluing to the Dock's tray width, so that one stays a hardcoded constant in TerminalLayout.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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.

1mo ago Changed · +3 lines · +61 tokens per session 1d212a9c6367
2mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +30 tokens per session e3ccd3c232b1
2mo ago First seen · 137 lines · 1,892 tokens per session scan A 9aeb8c745e96

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starboard CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository palamim/starboard (378 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,983 tokens to every session, about $0.0079 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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