founder-stack: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

founder-stack CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from rajconnects/founder-stack. It costs 363 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of repository instructions for a framework used by non-technical founders. It requires generic terminology, documented interfaces, backward compatibility, and testing changes in a clean project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing the framework’s workflows, skills, templates, commands, agents, or hooks.
Why use it?
It helps keep shared workflow files safe to reuse across different projects and prevents changes from breaking existing installations.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is rajconnects/founder-stack's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on founder-stack 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 founder-stack configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to rajconnects/founder-stack. 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/rajconnects/founder-stack/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rajconnects/founder-stack

Made for: Claude Code.

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Opus 5.5 $0.00145 $0.00145
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00073 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00036 $0.00036

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 806fa1d67861, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

founder-stack 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 1mo 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 · 26 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md — Founder Stack Framework Repo

This is the framework's own working file. When editing in this repo, behave according to the rules below.

What this repo is

A published workflow framework for non-technical founders. Every file in workflow/, skills/, and templates/ ends up symlinked into someone else's project. Treat each command, agent, and hook as a public interface.

Editing rules

  1. Generic only. No project-specific terminology, file paths, or domain references. Use {{paths.*}} placeholders that resolve from workflow/project.example.json.
  2. Test in a clean repo. Before merging changes to commands/agents/hooks, install into a throwaway target and run them.
  3. Document the contract. Each command has a header explaining inputs, outputs, and gate behavior.
  4. Backwards compatible. Don't rename commands or change argument shapes without a deprecation window — installs are symlinks; breaking changes break user projects.

Open work

  • Genericize workflow/Engineering-Playbook.md — currently a verbatim copy from the source project; needs Alignmink references stripped and replaced with {{paths.*}} placeholders.
  • Audit workflow/commands/*.md and workflow/agents/*.md for hardcoded paths.
  • Write the examples/ reference project so users can see a working install.
  • Decide: ship npx founder-stack init wrapper or keep bash-only.

Source repo

Extracted from the Alignmink Executive CoPilot project on 2026-05-01. The original .claude/ tree there remains the canonical source until divergence is recorded here.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 26 lines · 363 tokens per session scan A 806fa1d67861

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founder-stack CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rajconnects/founder-stack (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 363 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 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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