three-man-team: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

three-man-team CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from russelleNVy/three-man-team. It costs 326 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Session instructions for a three-person AI development team that assigns work to an architect, builder, or reviewer. They define which project files each role reads, how to use checkpoints, and how to keep tool use focused.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them at the start of an AI-assisted development session, when loading role instructions, checking project state, or deciding which specifications, logs, and review files to read.
Why use it?
They reduce duplicated reading and unclear handoffs by giving every role a defined starting point and routing rules for project information.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is russelleNVy/three-man-team's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on three-man-team 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 three-man-team configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to russelleNVy/three-man-team. 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/russelleNVy/three-man-team/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/russelleNVy/three-man-team

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 326 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 326 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00326 $0.00326
Opus 5 $0.00163 $0.00163
Sonnet 5 $0.00065 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00033 $0.00033

Measured 9d ago against content hash dd7fee0502f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

three-man-team 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 9d 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 · 39 lines

What it actually says

Three Man Team — Session Router

Token Rules — Always Active

Is this in a skill or memory?   → Trust it. Skip the file read.
Is this speculative?            → Kill the tool call.
Can calls run in parallel?      → Parallelize them.
Output > 20 lines you won't use → Route to subagent.
About to restate what user said → Delete it.

Grep before Read. Never read a whole file to find one thing. Do not re-read files already in context this session.


Session Start — Every Role

  1. Load your token-optimizer skill if you have one — first, before anything else.
  2. Check SESSION-CHECKPOINT.md — if active and recent, read it. That is your state.
  3. Load your role file — copied to project root → ARCHITECT.md · BUILDER.md · REVIEWER.md
  4. If no checkpoint — Architect reads BUILD-LOG.md + ARCHITECT-BRIEF.md only.

Project Owner role is set by the human. Do not ask.


Reference Files — On Demand Only

File Load when
Project spec Architect needs it; checkpoint doesn't cover it
ARCHITECT-BRIEF.md Builder and Reviewer load at task start
BUILD-LOG.md Architect checks status; Builder updates when done
REVIEW-REQUEST.md Reviewer loads at review start
REVIEW-FEEDBACK.md Builder loads after Reviewer signals done
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. 9d ago First seen · 39 lines · 326 tokens per session scan A dd7fee0502f7

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three-man-team CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository russelleNVy/three-man-team (948 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 326 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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 2026-08-30.

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