quarry: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

quarry CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from punt-labs/quarry. It costs 8,773 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for Quarry, a local semantic search system that indexes documents and stores searchable vector representations. It explains how queries and document ingestion work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Working on document indexing, local search, embeddings, LanceDB storage, and the MCP service that exposes Quarry.
Why use it?
It helps an agent understand the repository's required setup, search pipeline, and coding standards before making changes.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SubagentStop hook event. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

This is punt-labs/quarry's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on quarry 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 quarry configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Measured yesterday against content hash 84fb8644f4c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quarry 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 yesterday.

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 · 295 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 295 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quarry

Part of Punt Labs. This repo must be checked out inside the punt-labs/ workspace meta-repo so that org-wide configuration loads via Claude Code's ancestor directory walk:

  • punt-labs/CLAUDE.md — org workflow, delegation model, beads issue tracking, tool configuration
  • punt-labs/.claude/rules/python-*.md — 19 Python OO coding rules, scoped via paths: frontmatter (load on-demand when .py files are touched)
  • punt-labs/.envrc — git identity, beads DB connection, API keys from platform keychain
  • punt-kit/standards/ — canonical reference docs

If cloned outside the workspace, these rules and configuration will not be present.

OO Python standards adopted 2026-05-13. The codebase does not yet fully comply. Every commit must improve OO scores (make check-oo), never regress. Do not match existing code patterns that violate the rules — write new code to the standard and improve touched files incrementally.

Local semantic search for AI agents and humans. Indexes 20+ document formats, embeds with a local ONNX model (snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v1.5, 768-dim), stores vectors in LanceDB, and serves via CLI, an MCP stdio server, and an HTTP API — all backed by the quarryd daemon (port 8420).

  • Package: punt-quarry
  • CLI: quarry
  • MCP server: quarry mcp (stdio subcommand → QuarryClient → the quarryd REST daemon); there is no in-daemon /mcp WebSocket route and no quarry-server entry point
  • Python: 3.13+, managed with uv

Mandatory Reading

Source-of-truth documents, @-imported so they stay in context. Read them before writing code.

  • docs/WORKFLOW.md is the authoritative development process: three nested loops (backlog → PR → mission), each with pseudocode for its control flow and a Z schema for its entry/exit doorway conditions. The Development Loop section below is a pointer to it, not a second copy.
  • DESIGN.md is the ADR log (DES-001+); on any conflict about settled architecture, it wins. Read it before proposing changes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 295 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.

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quarry CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository punt-labs/quarry (7 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8,773 tokens to every session, about $0.0351 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 2026-08-31.

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