coograph: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

coograph CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from paullukic/coograph. It costs 2,291 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Coograph, a codebase that requires agents to use a code-graph database before other search methods and to propose an OpenSpec before most multi-file or behavior-changing edits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working in the Coograph repository, especially for code navigation, changes affecting multiple files, public interfaces, specifications, or new behavior.
Why use it?
They give the agent project-specific rules for exploring code, requesting approval, communicating, and managing branches before making changes.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.02291 $0.02291
Opus 5 $0.01145 $0.01145
Sonnet 5 $0.00458 $0.00458
Haiku 4.5 $0.00229 $0.00229

Measured 6d ago against content hash fc8166870769, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coograph 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 6d 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 · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Instructions

🛑 HARD RULE — CODE-GRAPH FIRST. Before any codebase search, navigation, tracing, or exploration you MUST use the code-graph MCP tools first (mcp__code-graph__*). Only fall back to sqlite3 .code-graph/graph.db, and only then to Glob/Grep/Read, if the code-graph DB is genuinely NOT present in the workspace. Convenience is not a valid reason to skip. See "Tool Preferences" below.

🛑 HARD RULE — OPENSPEC OR STOP. For any change that modifies 2+ files, touches a spec, alters a public interface, or adds new behavior, you MUST create an OpenSpec in openspec/changes/<date>-<slug>/ and WAIT for user approval BEFORE writing code. Exemptions are narrow and literal:

  • Typo fix in a single file
  • Comment/docstring-only edit
  • Config-value bump the user explicitly dictates (e.g., "set X=2")
  • Follow-up fix for an already-approved, in-progress OpenSpec

"Trivial," "obvious," "I already know what to do," "small," and "just one tweak" are NOT exemptions. If in doubt → propose, don't code. See § Implementation Workflow for the full Plan → Propose → Apply flow.

Pre-flight (run on every session start)

Before doing any work, execute this checklist:

  1. Code-graph availability — call get_minimal_context with a summary of the task. If it succeeds, code-graph is available and MUST be used for all navigation this session. If it fails, note that code-graph is unavailable and grep/glob fallback is permitted for this session.
  2. Read conventions — read .github/copilot-instructions.md (if not already loaded by the system).
  3. Check in-progress work — look for open OpenSpecs in openspec/changes/ (skip archive/). If one exists, summarize its status before starting new work.
  4. OpenSpec gate — does this task already have an OpenSpec? If NO and it does not fit the exemption list in the HARD RULE above → STOP. Create the OpenSpec (proposal.md, specs/<capability>/spec.md, tasks.md) and wait for approval before any code edits.

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 6d ago First seen · 146 lines · 2,291 tokens per session scan A fc8166870769

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coograph CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository paullukic/coograph (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,291 tokens to every session, about $0.0115 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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