claude_code_helpers: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude_code_helpers CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from phobologic/claude_code_helpers. It costs 4,885 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Setup instructions for a repository that stores personal Claude Code configuration, including skills, helper agents, language rules, tool rules, and shared instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on the repository, adding or updating Claude Code skills and rules, or running its installation script to configure the local ~/.claude directory.
Why use it?
It explains the repository’s purpose and structure so changes are made in the right place and the configuration is installed correctly.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PostToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

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CLAUDE.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Repository Purpose

This repository is the source of truth for ~/.claude/ — personal Claude Code dotfiles. It provides global skills, sub-agents for multi-agent code review, a global CLAUDE.md with working style rules, language plugins for auto-formatting, and tool rules for deployment and database conventions.

Repository Structure

skills/         Global skills (review, multi-review, implement-ticket, use-railway, …)
agents/         Sub-agents for code review, agent-team execution, and the run-tickets workflow
workflows/      Saved Claude Code workflow scripts (run-tickets)
languages/      Per-language Claude Code plugins (go, python) — hooks + rules
mods/           Claude Code mods (workflow-monitor), installed from their own marketplace
tools/          Per-tool rules files (railway, sqlalchemy) — loaded via .claude/rules/ symlinks
bin/            Utility scripts (tk plugins, etc.)
tests/          Tests for the run-tickets workflow script and planner (plain node / python3)
docs/           Documentation and migration guides
CLAUDE.global.md  Global CLAUDE.md — symlinked to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md
install.sh      Sets up ~/.claude/ symlinks from scratch

Installation

Run ./install.sh to configure ~/.claude/:

  • ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md → CLAUDE.global.md
  • ~/.claude/skills/ → skills/
  • ~/.claude/agents/ → agents/
  • ~/.claude/workflows/ → workflows/
  • ~/.claude/rules/go.md → languages/go/rules/CLAUDE.md
  • ~/.claude/rules/python.md → languages/python/rules/CLAUDE.md

To add language auto-formatting hooks to a project:

# Step 1 — add the marketplace once per machine:
/plugin marketplace add ~/git/claude_code/languages

# Step 2 — install in your project:
/plugin install claude-go@claude-languages
/plugin install claude-python@claude-languages

Architecture

Skills

  • Skills are stored in the skills/ directory, one subdirectory per skill with a SKILL.md
  • Invoked with /skill-name or automatically by Claude when context matches the description
  • Skills with disable-model-invocation: true are user-only (for side-effect workflows)
  • See the Claude Code skills docs for format details

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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claude_code_helpers CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository phobologic/claude_code_helpers (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,885 tokens to every session, about $0.0195 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 2026-08-31.

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