beadle: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

beadle CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from punt-labs/beadle. It costs 2,344 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Beadle, an autonomous agent daemon with cryptographic control and an email component for communicating through Proton Bridge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing or maintaining Beadle and its beadle-email MCP server, which lets an agent receive email under defined trust levels.
Why use it?
They give coding agents the project’s identity, trust rules, and standards when working in the 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 punt-labs/beadle's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on beadle 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 beadle configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.02344 $0.02344
Opus 5 $0.01172 $0.01172
Sonnet 5 $0.00469 $0.00469
Haiku 4.5 $0.00234 $0.00234

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5d4b4d784cd4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

beadle 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 6d 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 · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

beadle

Autonomous agent daemon with cryptographic owner control. GPG-signed instructions, declared permissions, tamperproof audit trail. Runs on the owner's machine as a background daemon. Written in Go.

The shipping component is beadle-email — an MCP server for email communication via Proton Bridge with a four-level PGP trust model.

What Beadle Is

Beadle gives an AI agent its own email address and mailbox — it is not a tool for managing a human's personal inbox. Once an agent has a mailbox, email becomes a channel other parties can use to instruct it, with no live session required. Everything in the trust model exists to answer one question for that channel: who is allowed to direct this agent, and how much authority does a given message actually carry.

Two independent mechanisms decide that. There is no privileged "owner" role sitting above them — do not model one when reasoning about this system:

  1. Message verification — the four-level trust classification (trusted/verified/untrusted/unverified, see docs/ARCHITECTURE.md's "Trust Model" section), proving how hard a given message would be to forge. verifyTrust itself only classifies; the one place that result is actually enforced as a hard requirement is internal/daemon/handler.go's OnNewMail call site (if trust != channel.Verified && trust != channel.Trusted { continue }) — no mission is created below that bar. Elsewhere, beadle-email's list_messages/read_message/check_trust compute and show the same classification, and reply_message still checks only permission before sending — nothing in any of these tools refuses to act because a message sits on a lower trust rung; it's a signal for the agent's own judgment.
  2. Per-contact permission grants (rwx) — set independently per sender, per identity (internal/contacts.CheckPermission). This is the check that's enforced everywhere it applies: internal/mcp/tools.go's perm.Read/enforceWritePermission gate reading and replying, internal/daemon/handler.go's perm.Execute gates mission creation. Any number of different people or systems can each hold their own combination; nobody is special by default, and a perfectly verified message from an ungranted sender still unlocks nothing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 6d ago First seen · 98 lines · 2,344 tokens per session scan A 5d4b4d784cd4

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beadle CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository punt-labs/beadle (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,344 tokens to every session, about $0.0117 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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