Vela: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Vela CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from PimpinPumpkin/Vela. It costs 9,499 tokens per session, scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A repository instruction file for Claude Code, covering maintainer rules and how project documentation is written. It also records that documentation changes belong in the same commit as related code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide maintenance work, documentation edits, commit contents, and attribution practices in the Vela project.
Why use it?
It gives an AI coding assistant project-specific working rules instead of relying on general assumptions.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

About the project

Vela is an Android maps and navigation app that combines open map data with optional Google web lookups for places, routes, traffic, and other details, without requiring Google Play Services or an account. It is intended for people using degoogled phones as well as stock Android devices. The catalogue instruction relates to operating or customizing this navigation app.

PimpinPumpkin/Vela · 2,467 stars · on GitHub · velamaps.org

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 9,499 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 9,499 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 $0.09499 $0.09499
Opus 5.5 $0.03800 $0.03800
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01900 $0.01900
Haiku 4.5 $0.00950 $0.00950

Measured 17d ago against content hash fd1feeb9ff64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Vela 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 17d 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 · 597 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-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. 17d ago Changed · +4 tokens per session fd1feeb9ff64
  2. 21d ago Changed · +12 lines · +210 tokens per session f9679b186f21
  3. 25d ago Changed · +23 lines · +426 tokens per session c8ab4187ad54
  4. 27d ago Changed · +37 lines · +683 tokens per session 3a991ea5ab9f
  5. 28d ago Changed · +18 lines · +375 tokens per session 731c540c4974
  6. 29d ago Changed · +36 lines · +726 tokens per session 91040d745fe4
  7. 1mo ago First seen · 471 lines · 7,075 tokens per session scan A a5078b5aac70

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Vela CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository PimpinPumpkin/Vela (2,467 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 9,499 tokens to every session, about $0.0380 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 2026-10-08.

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