graph-engineer: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

graph-engineer CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Ranteck/graph-engineer. It costs 2,365 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of graph-engineer AGENTS.md, MIT.

A contributor guide for the graph-engineer repository, which contains a single AI-agent skill package rather than application code. It explains the project structure, terminology, design rules, and supporting reference files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Orienting contributors, locating skill and reference files, applying the graph-engineer workflow, and preserving its core design rules.
Why use it?
It gives agents the repository context needed to edit the skill consistently. It also identifies which documents must remain aligned and describes the project’s central workflow.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

This is Ranteck/graph-engineer's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on graph-engineer 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 graph-engineer configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Ranteck/graph-engineer. 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/Ranteck/graph-engineer/develop/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ranteck/graph-engineer

Made for: Claude Code.

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Grade A, and why

graph-engineer 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to graph-engineer AGENTS.md — 68 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

CLAUDE.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 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 repository is

This repo is a single Claude Code skill package named graph-engineer (plus its README/LICENSE). There is no application code, no build step, no test suite, and no package manifest — the repo's only artifact is the skill definition itself:

skills/graph-engineer/
├── SKILL.md                       # the skill's instructions (source of truth)
└── references/
    ├── goal-templates.md              # ready-to-use /goal templates per scenario
    ├── quality-gate-detection.md      # generic quality-gate command resolver algorithm
    ├── elevated-assurance.md          # optional opt-in multi-lens CRITIQUE variant
    ├── backend-selection.md           # opt-in per-cycle writer/reviewer routing
    ├── context-lifecycle.md            # scoped feature context, round history, and archival
    └── sources.md                     # provenance: what's official Anthropic/OpenAI vs. not

README.md at the repo root is the human-facing explanation of the same skill and must stay consistent with skills/graph-engineer/SKILL.md — they describe the same 8-node cycle from two angles (marketing/usage vs. operational instructions). When editing one, check whether the other needs a matching update (e.g. node numbering, flag names, the anti-loop cutoff wording). Their section order is deliberately different, though: README.md is ordered for reading (what is this → what does the cycle look like → how do I use it → what can go wrong), while SKILL.md is ordered for execution (node 0 through node 7 in sequence). Don't treat a reordering of one as something that needs mirroring in the other — only the claims need to match, not the layout.

Working in this repo

There is nothing to build, lint, or test. "Development" here means editing Markdown (SKILL.md, README.md, the reference files) and keeping the following consistent across all of them:

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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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graph-engineer CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Ranteck/graph-engineer (105 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,365 tokens to every session, about $0.0095 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to graph-engineer AGENTS.md, differing in 68 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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