reflex: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

reflex CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from reflex-search/reflex. It costs 12,149 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Reflex, a local Rust code-search engine designed for coding agents. It searches an entire codebase for text and patterns, including code uses and comments, and returns file paths, line numbers, and context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide work on the Reflex project and explain its code-search architecture and components.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a shared understanding of the project's purpose, design, and operating principles before it searches or changes code.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is reflex-search/reflex's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on reflex 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 reflex configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 12,149 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

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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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.12149 $0.12149
Opus 5.5 $0.04860 $0.04860
Sonnet 5.5 $0.02430 $0.02430
Haiku 4.5 $0.01215 $0.01215

Measured yesterday against content hash b861eb4d565f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reflex 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 yesterday.

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 · 894 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 894 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Project Overview

Reflex is a local-first, full-text code search engine written in Rust. It's a fast, deterministic replacement for Sourcegraph Code Search, designed specifically for AI coding workflows and automation.

Reflex uses trigram-based indexing to enable instant full-text search across large codebases (10k+ files). Unlike symbol-only tools, Reflex finds every occurrence of patterns—function calls, variable usage, comments, and more—not just definitions. Results include file paths, line numbers, and surrounding context, with optional symbol-aware filtering.


Core Principles

  1. Local-first: Runs fully offline; all data stays on the developer's machine
  2. Complete coverage: Finds every occurrence, not just symbol definitions
  3. Deterministic results: Same query → same answer; no probabilistic ranking
  4. Instant access: Trigram index + memory-mapping enables instant queries
  5. Agent-oriented: Clean JSON output built for AI coding agents and automation
  6. Regex support: Extract trigrams from patterns for fast regex search

Architecture Overview

Components

Module Description
Trigram Indexer Extracts trigrams from all code files; builds inverted index (trigram → file locations)
Content Store Stores full file contents (memory-mapped); enables context extraction around matches
Query Engine Intersects trigram posting lists; verifies matches; returns line-by-line results with context
Runtime Symbol Parser Uses Tree-sitter to parse candidate files that miss the symbol cache, at query time
Background Symbol Indexer rfx index-symbols-internal, spawned by rfx index; parses every file with a grammar and fills the symbol cache
Symbol Cache zstd-compressed symbol blobs in meta.db (src/symbol_cache.rs); symbol queries read it first
CLI / API Layer Single binary for human and programmatic use (CLI and optional HTTP/MCP)
Incremental updates rfx index and Indexer::update_paths publish a delta over the base instead of rebuilding (src/snapshot.rs, src/indexer.rs)
Auto-update Every command that reads the index updates a stale one first (src/auto_update.rs); --no-update opts out
Watcher (optional) Incrementally updates index on file changes

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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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reflex CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository reflex-search/reflex (76 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 12,149 tokens to every session, about $0.0486 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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