maestro: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

maestro CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from pjasielski/maestro. It costs 343 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Maestro, a development framework that uses Markdown commands and TOML configuration. They explain the repository’s setup, workflow, naming rules, and how to save command results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on Maestro’s framework code, commands, configuration, documentation, or saved session artifacts.
Why use it?
They give an AI coding assistant the project context and operating rules it needs to work consistently in the Maestro repository.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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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 $0.00343 $0.00343
Opus 5 $0.00171 $0.00171
Sonnet 5 $0.00069 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00034 $0.00034

Measured 8d ago against content hash bbae501e1dbd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maestro 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 8d 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 · 29 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md — Maestro Framework (Dev Repo)

Framework Instructions

See MAESTRO.md for all delivery framework behavior, commands, output standards, and conventions. MAESTRO.md is the canonical framework reference.

Artifact capture: commands save their artifact as a numbered session file; direct chat queries are answered in chat only (if an answer is extensive, ask whether to save it). /md saves a response on demand. When a file is produced, chat output = brief summary only.

Project

  • Framework: Maestro (command prefix: mae-, aliases: mex/mpoc/mrq/mds/mpl/mdo/mrv)
  • What this repo is: The Maestro framework itself (bootstrapping — building the framework using itself)
  • Current phase: bootstrap → packaging
  • Config: maestro.toml (TOML format — Python native, no indent bugs)
  • Stack: Markdown-first commands, TOML config, future Python CLI (FastAPI, Pydantic AI, Typer)
  • Language: Code and documentation in English

Project-Specific Notes

  • This repo IS the framework — not a project using the framework
  • Canonical commands in .maestro/commands/ with mae- prefix
  • Claude Code wrappers + aliases in .claude/commands/
  • Cursor adapters in .cursor/rules/
  • Delivery artifacts in this repo describe the framework's own design

Active Context

  • Session folder: .sessions/010-roadmap-plan-consolidation/
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. 8d ago First seen · 29 lines · 343 tokens per session scan A bbae501e1dbd

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maestro CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository pjasielski/maestro (4 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 343 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 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 2026-08-31.

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