Enso: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Enso CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Proxy2021/Enso. It costs 11,646 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Enso, a self-hosted personal AI assistant that uses multiple AI agents and information from a user's digital life. They describe its vision and main development context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding development of Enso's data collection, knowledge system, agent workflows, and related features.
Why use it?
They give coding agents the product purpose and architecture needed to work consistently on Enso.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool; positional $N argument.

This is Proxy2021/Enso's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Enso 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 Enso configures →

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Grade A, and why

Enso CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2mo ago.

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Available methods in executor function bodies: `ctx.callTool(name, params)`, `ctx.listDir(path)`, `ctx.readFile(path)`, `ctx.searchFiles(root, name)`, `ctx.fetch(url, opts?)`, `ctx.search(query, opts?)`, `ctx.ask(prompt,
CLAUDE.md · 589 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 589 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Enso — CLAUDE.md

For detailed app building guides, API references, template rules, and code examples, see CLAUDE-REFERENCE.md.

Vision

Enso is a deeply personal AI assistant that understands who you are, discovers what you care about, and mobilizes a full team of AI agents to help you make real progress on the goals that matter most.

Every installation is self-hosted, open-source, and fully owned by the user — you own the factory, not just the product.

The Arc: Understand → Focus → Execute

Enso follows a three-phase arc that compounds over time:

1. Understand the user deeply — Enso scans the user's digital life across 12 data sources (Kindle library, YouTube subscriptions, browser history, email, projects, Steam games, movies/TV, photos, Twitter/X, QQ Music, system apps). Each scan ingests content into the Knowledge Cortex — an interlinked wiki of 2000+ pages that builds a semantic map of who the user is, what they know, and what they're drawn to. Cross-source synthesis connects a Kindle book on quantitative finance to an AlphaRank project to a YouTube channel on systematic investing. The system sees patterns the user might not.

2. Identify what matters — From the Cortex, Enso infers Focus Areas — concrete, outcome-oriented goals the user is working toward. Not category labels ("Quantitative Finance") but actionable goals ("Develop AlphaRank into a Market-Beating Quant Tool"). Each focus has clarity levels (emerging → developing → clear), a deeper personal WHY, adjacent pursuits, and evidence grounded in the user's actual data. Focus areas are first-class Cortex citizens — their wiki pages accumulate everything: evaluation briefings, conversation insights, sprint results, and cross-references.

3. Iterate: Evaluate → Discuss → Evolve — Each focus area has a three-step iterative workflow:

  • Evaluate: An orchestration-powered deep study. Multiple AI agents (researcher, codebase analyst, synthesizer) work in parallel to gather web research, analyze project code and sprint history, cross-reference Cortex knowledge, and produce a comprehensive briefing. Progress is visible live in the Evolve tab.
  • Discuss: A clean strategic dialogue with the AI (no tool calls, no app cards — just focused thinking). The AI arrives prepared with the evaluation briefing and all Cortex context, acting as a co-strategist to flesh out the problem space, define success criteria, and build a clear vision.
  • Evolve: The full conversation context feeds into an /Evolve orchestration — a multi-agent sprint where a team of AI agents (Project Leader, Architect, Engineer, QA, and domain specialists) execute on the agreed goals. Each agent is a Claude Code session with role-specific prompts, coordinated through a DAG execution engine. This cycle repeats — each sprint's results feed back into the Cortex, refining the focus and informing the next evaluation.

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Enso CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Proxy2021/Enso (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11,646 tokens to every session, about $0.0466 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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