Vocello: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Vocello CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from PowerBeef/Vocello. It costs 4,189 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for Vocello, a local-first speech app with macOS, iOS, command-line, automation, and web parts. It explains which source files and contracts take priority when making changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as the working guide when changing Vocello code, configuration, documentation, or release-related files.
Why use it?
It helps coding agents resolve conflicting documentation and follow the project’s rules about architecture, assets, releases, and product facts.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security

Grade A, and why

Vocello 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 today.

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 · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Claude Code is the lead engineer on the existing local main checkout: it owns implementation, verification and integration. Carry authorized work through to a reviewable result, make routine engineering decisions, use the smallest meaningful checks, fix failures and commit scoped changes. Pushes require an explicit request, including commits already waiting to be pushed. Preserve unrelated edits and prior commits; stage explicit paths, never stash or broadly stage.

Start here

  1. The SessionStart hook prints branch/dirty state, open agent worktrees, scripts/dev.sh status, cache health and the Resume now head of docs/development-progress.md. Without it, run git status --short --branch, git rev-parse HEAD, python3 scripts/roadmap.py status and read Resume now. Reconcile overlapping changes before editing.
  2. Domain rules load on demand: .claude/rules/native.md (Swift, packages, tests, project.yml) and .claude/rules/tooling.md (scripts, CI, config, evidence) are symlinks to docs/reference/native-engineering.md and docs/reference/tooling-and-evidence.md. website/CLAUDE.md loads for website work. The daily loop, CI, agents, hooks, permissions and tool routing are in docs/reference/development-workflow.md.
  3. Inspect source and tests. Load relevant Axiom skills for Apple domains and the swift-mlx skills for runtime changes; load only what applies.
  4. Implement, verify, review the actual diff and commit the assigned files on main. Substantive Swift changes get the vocello-swift-review agent; hooks, security, persistence and release changes get a focused review (/code-review, /security-review). Record larger unrelated work in the roadmap.
  5. Report results, evidence and real limitations. Update the roadmap and checkpoint when status changes; do not create another task ledger.

Product and authority

Vocello is local-first Qwen3-TTS on MLX in Swift 6. macOS and iOS host the runtime in-process; the repository also owns the vocello CLI, Python tooling and the React/Vite website. No bundled weights and no cloud inference. iOS is compile-safe only on main; the iOS app is iPhone-only.

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 lines

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What this file has done since we first saw it

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Vocello CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository PowerBeef/Vocello (386 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 4,189 tokens to every session, about $0.0168 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 2026-09-12.

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