interlinked-cli: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

interlinked-cli CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from QuentinCody/interlinked-cli. It costs 33,188 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Interlinked, a system that checks code written by agents for quality and security. They explain the project's purpose, workflow, and the consequences of its checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them before modifying Interlinked's quality gates, security checks, thresholds, scope rules, or agent-tool-call handling.
Why use it?
They prevent contributors from changing checks, limits, or other safeguards without understanding what those changes affect.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is QuentinCody/interlinked-cli's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on interlinked-cli 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 interlinked-cli configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Grade C, and why

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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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

interlinked harness test "rm -rf /" # Test command against rules

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- `src/harness/__tests__/evaluator.test.ts` — destructive command blocking, sleep detection, protected files, curl-to-MCP, auto-reservations, safe command allowlist
CLAUDE.md · 1,788 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,788 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What this is for (read before changing any check, gate, or threshold)

Interlinked is a portable, per-tool-call quality and security standard for agent-written code. A local daemon sits in front of an agent's tool calls and judges each one — ideally before it reaches disk. Four goals, in priority order:

  1. Judge agent-written code at the moment it is written, in ANY codebase. This repo is one instance, and an unrepresentative one: single language, agent-hardened, no human legacy. Portability is the product; this tree is the test fixture.
  2. Ratchet the quality and security of whatever codebase it runs in. Default scope is the DIFF — the edited region of this tool call, not the file. Opt-in wider scopes: whole-file ("fix the file you touched") and whole-codebase ("bring this repo up to standard": tests, types, coverage, low complexity).
  3. Catch problems at the earliest point the evidence exists. PreToolUse when the proposed content is enough; PostToolUse when the file on disk or a compiler is required; trajectory when the pattern spans several calls; Stop when the only observable is "they finished without doing X". A check should declare the earliest phase its evidence supports, and sit there.
  4. Double as a step-level training signal for other coding agents, especially small/local ones. An agent that clears the strictest per-tool-call gates is demonstrably good — closer to rewarding every step than rewarding the final diff.

The consequence that reverses the obvious reading

A check that never fires in this repo is not dead weight, and must not be retired or demoted for being quiet. It is the part of the standard this particular (strong) agent already clears. Point it at a 7B local model or at human-written legacy code and it earns its keep.

Fire rate measures the AGENT, not the check.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,788 lines

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What this file has done since we first saw it

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interlinked-cli CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository QuentinCody/interlinked-cli (180 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33,188 tokens to every session, about $0.1328 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, 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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