What is redactdesk-mac CLAUDE.md?

Repository guidance for RedactDesk, an open-source macOS app that removes personally identifying information from PDF files on the device.

Use it when building, debugging, renaming, or preparing Apple Silicon and Intel macOS releases.

It explains the project's branding, build targets, distribution model, and technical boundaries so changes fit the existing app.

How RedactDesk/redactdesk-mac configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to RedactDesk/redactdesk-mac. 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/RedactDesk/redactdesk-mac/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RedactDesk/redactdesk-mac

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 3,467 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 3,467 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.03467	$0.03467
Opus 5.5	$0.01387	$0.01387
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00693	$0.00693
Haiku 4.5	$0.00347	$0.00347

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5b590dece0d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

redactdesk-mac 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 2mo 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 · 240 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Orientation for Claude Code (and any AI collaborator) working in this repo.

What this project is

RedactDesk is an open-source (MIT) macOS app that redacts PII from PDFs entirely on-device. Text model + PDFKit + SwiftUI. The user name shown in-app and in marketing is "RedactDesk"; the Xcode target + source folders are still named "PII Redactor" from the original template (soft-rename - renaming the folders involves a risky pbxproj shuffle, deferred).

The bundle ID is com.kamban.redactdesk. The display name, bundle ID, and all user-facing copy were renamed from the previous "SafePaste" branding; the on-disk Xcode target and folder names were intentionally left alone.

Distribution: direct download from the team's website, not the Mac App Store. Repo is MIT so anyone can build from source for free; the signed, notarized binary is sold as a separate paid download. Don't propose MAS submission work (StoreKit receipt validation, MAS sandbox quirks, App Store Connect pricing) - it's explicitly off the roadmap.

The underlying ML pipeline is openai/privacy-filter (a token-classification model) running via ONNX Runtime with the CoreML execution provider. Exported PDFs use image-rewrite redaction: each page is rasterized with black boxes burned into the bitmap over the PII rectangles, and that bitmap becomes the new page. The output has no text layer and no original pixels under the boxes.

Build / run commands

# Debug build on Apple Silicon
xcodebuild -project "PII Redactor.xcodeproj" \
  -scheme "PII Redactor" -configuration Debug \
  -destination "platform=macOS,arch=arm64" build

# Universal Release (arm64 + x86_64)
xcodebuild -project "PII Redactor.xcodeproj" \
  -scheme "PII Redactor" -configuration Release \
  -destination "generic/platform=macOS" \
  ARCHS="arm64 x86_64" ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=NO build

# Resolve SPM deps (fixes "failed downloading" cache errors)
xcodebuild -project "PII Redactor.xcodeproj" -resolvePackageDependencies

Read the full file on GitHub · 240 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.

2mo ago Changed · +11 lines · +183 tokens per session 5b590dece0d1
2mo ago First seen · 229 lines · 3,284 tokens per session scan A 0240e542d2ba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

redactdesk-mac CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository RedactDesk/redactdesk-mac (55 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,467 tokens to every session, about $0.0139 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 2026-08-30.

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