prpm: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

prpm CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from pr-pm/prpm. It costs 4,685 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Claude Code instructions for coordinating development with dependency-aware task planning, an AI sidecar, agent messaging, and searchable agent history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on PRPM with multiple agents, planning dependent tasks, finding blockers, or searching previous agent work.
Why use it?
They help agents follow the project’s coordination tools and avoid inconsistent task management.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is pr-pm/prpm's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on prpm 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 prpm configures β†’

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.04685 $0.04685
Opus 5 $0.02343 $0.02343
Sonnet 5 $0.00937 $0.00937
Haiku 4.5 $0.00468 $0.00468

Measured 2d ago against content hash aee3de28e055, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prpm CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories β€” prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency β€” measured 2d 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 Β· 485 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing β€” 485 lines β€” stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

  • Use the bd tool instead of markdown to coordinate all work and tasks.
  • NEVER commit changes unless the user explicitly asks you to.

Using bv as an AI sidecar

bv is a fast terminal UI for Beads projects (.beads/beads.jsonl). It renders lists/details and precomputes dependency metrics (PageRank, critical path, cycles, etc.) so you instantly see blockers and execution order. For agents, it’s a graph sidecar: instead of parsing JSONL or risking hallucinated traversal, call the robot flags to get deterministic, dependency-aware outputs.

IMPORTANT: As an agent, you must ONLY use bv with the robot flags, otherwise you'll get stuck in the interactive TUI that's intended for human usage only!

  • bv --robot-help β€” shows all AI-facing commands.
  • bv --robot-insights β€” JSON graph metrics (PageRank, betweenness, HITS, critical path, cycles) with top-N summaries for quick triage.
  • bv --robot-plan β€” JSON execution plan: parallel tracks, items per track, and unblocks lists showing what each item frees up.
  • bv --robot-priority β€” JSON priority recommendations with reasoning and confidence.
  • bv --robot-recipes β€” list recipes (default, actionable, blocked, etc.); apply via bv --recipe to pre-filter/sort before other flags.
  • bv --robot-diff --diff-since <commit|date> β€” JSON diff of issue changes, new/closed items, and cycles introduced/resolved.

Use these commands instead of hand-rolling graph logic; bv already computes the hard parts so agents can act safely and quickly.

MCP Agent Mail: coordination for multi-agent workflows

What it is

  • A mail-like layer that lets coding agents coordinate asynchronously via MCP tools and resources.
  • Provides identities, inbox/outbox, searchable threads, and advisory file reservations, with human-auditable artifacts in Git.

Why it's useful

  • Prevents agents from stepping on each other with explicit file reservations (leases) for files/globs.
  • Keeps communication out of your token budget by storing messages in a per-project archive.
  • Offers quick reads (resource://inbox/..., resource://thread/...) and macros that bundle common flows.

Read the full file on GitHub Β· 485 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. 2d ago First seen Β· 485 lines Β· 4,685 tokens per session scan A aee3de28e055

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prpm CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository pr-pm/prpm (120 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,685 tokens to every session, about $0.0234 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 2026-09-03.

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