nanoflash: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

nanoflash CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from refactornator/nanoflash. It costs 2,775 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for NanoFlash, a personal Gemini-based agent system that connects messaging channels to an isolated container. A container is a separated environment in which the agent runs with limited files and resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when understanding NanoFlash’s architecture, adding a messaging channel or tool, or locating the files responsible for routing, databases, containers, and inter-process communication.
Why use it?
It explains how messages move through the system and where channels, storage, agent execution, and side effects are handled.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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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 · 261 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NanoFlash

Personal Gemini agent harness. See README.md for philosophy and setup.

Quick Context

Single Node.js process with skill-based channel system. Channels (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Gmail) are skills that self-register at startup. Messages route to a Gemini agent loop running in containers (Linux VMs). Each group has isolated filesystem and memory.

Architecture

User message → Channel (Telegram/WhatsApp/etc.)
  → SQLite (store message)
  → Polling loop (src/index.ts, every 2s)
  → container-runner.ts spawns Apple Container / Docker
    → agent-runner (container/agent-runner/src/index.ts)
      → Gemini API with tool loop
      → stdout: NANOFLASH_OUTPUT_START/END markers
  → Host parses output, sends response via channel
  → IPC files for side-effects (messages, reactions, tasks)

Two-process boundary: The host process (src/) manages channels, DB, IPC, and container lifecycle. The agent process (container/agent-runner/) runs inside a Linux container with only mounted directories visible. These communicate via stdin/stdout (initial prompt + output markers) and filesystem IPC (/workspace/ipc/).

Key Files

File Purpose
src/index.ts Orchestrator: state, message loop, agent invocation
src/container-runner.ts Spawns agent containers, builds mounts and env vars, parses output markers
src/channels/registry.ts Channel registry (self-registration at startup)
src/ipc.ts IPC watcher: processes message/reaction/task files from containers
src/router.ts Formats messages as XML for the agent, strips <internal> tags on output
src/config.ts All configuration: trigger pattern, paths, intervals, Gemini models
src/gemini-media.ts Host-side media analysis — images inline, video/audio via Gemini File API (up to 2 GB)
src/task-scheduler.ts Runs scheduled tasks on cron/interval/once schedules
src/db.ts SQLite operations (messages, sessions, groups, tasks)
src/types.ts Channel interface, RegisteredGroup, NewMessage, etc.
groups/{name}/CLAUDE.md Per-group system instruction (loaded as Gemini systemInstruction)
container/agent-runner/src/index.ts The agent — Gemini tool loop, all tool implementations

Read the full file on GitHub · 261 lines

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nanoflash CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository refactornator/nanoflash (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,775 tokens to every session, about $0.0111 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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