claudia: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claudia CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from reganomalley/claudia. It costs 1,050 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for Claudia, a Claude Code plugin that acts as a technology mentor, security adviser, and prompt coach. It describes the plugin's knowledge areas, commands, and automatic checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for help with databases, security, infrastructure, frontend work, APIs, testing, performance, DevOps, and data tasks, as well as suggestions for prompts and next steps.
Why use it?
It gives developers guidance while they work and can flag issues such as exposed secrets, accessibility problems, unsafe practices, and poor repository hygiene.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

This is reganomalley/claudia's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claudia 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 claudia configures →

Runs only inside a plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it.

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.01050 $0.01050
Opus 5 $0.00525 $0.00525
Sonnet 5 $0.00210 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00105 $0.00105

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0151099f18fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claudia 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 8d 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 · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claudia - Proactive Mentor Plugin

What This Is

Claude Code plugin: technology mentor, security advisor, prompt coach. 10 knowledge domains, 15 hooks, 11 commands. MIT licensed. npm: claudia-mentor. Web: askclaudia.dev.

Architecture

  • Skills (model-invocable): claudia-mentor (core brain/router), claudia-databases, claudia-security, claudia-infrastructure, claudia-frontend, claudia-api, claudia-testing, claudia-performance, claudia-devops, claudia-data
  • Hooks (PreToolUse, 8): check-secrets.py (blocks), check-practices.py, check-deps.py, check-dockerfile.py, check-git-hygiene.py (blocks .env + conflicts), check-accessibility.py, check-license.py, check-css.py
  • Hooks (proactive, 7): claudia-teach.py (Stop — keyword teaching + progressive command reveal), claudia-compact-tip.py (PreCompact — Esc+Esc tip), claudia-session-tips.py (SessionStart — rotating tips, beginner-simplified greeting), claudia-prompt-coach.py (UserPromptSubmit — stuck detection + vague prompt coaching), claudia-run-suggest.py (Stop — how to run created files), claudia-next-steps.py (Stop — contextual next actions), claudia-milestones.py (Stop — persistent milestone celebrations)
  • Commands (11): ask, explain, review, why, health, wtf, where, resume, setup, start, shortcuts
  • Shared config: hooks/scripts/claudia_config.py — project resolution, user config, project-scoped context
  • Config: defaults.json for personality/proactivity, user override via ~/.claude/claudia.json
  • Context persistence: Per-project files at ~/.claude/claudia-projects/{key}.json, registry at ~/.claude/claudia-projects.json, fallback to ~/.claude/claudia-context.json

Key Files

  • skills/claudia-mentor/SKILL.md -- personality, routing, greeting, learning mode, context persistence
  • hooks/hooks.json -- hook registration (14 hooks across 5 event types)
  • hooks/scripts/claudia_config.py -- shared config module (project resolution, load_user_config, load_project_context)
  • commands/ask.md -- main question entry point
  • commands/explain.md -- code/concept/technology explanation
  • commands/review.md -- "almost right" bug catcher
  • commands/why.md -- stack decision explainer
  • commands/health.md -- health audit command
  • commands/wtf.md -- error explainer (What/Why/Fix)
  • commands/where.md -- project structure tour
  • commands/resume.md -- session pickup + multi-project dashboard
  • commands/setup.md -- first-time onboarding (7 steps)
  • commands/start.md -- project creation from scratch
  • commands/shortcuts.md -- keyboard shortcut reference
  • config/defaults.json -- default personality + proactivity + project scoping

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 46 lines · 1,050 tokens per session scan A 0151099f18fa

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claudia CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository reganomalley/claudia (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,050 tokens to every session, about $0.0052 per session on Opus 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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