What is iris CLAUDE.md?

A set of Claude Code instructions for Iris, a self-hosted personal life-management assistant. Iris works through Telegram and connects to Google Calendar and Todoist to manage plans, reminders, and competing commitments.

Use it when developing or maintaining Iris, especially for build and test work, deployment, security checks, calendar tasks, and task-management features.

It gives the coding agent project context, including the purpose, architecture, expected commands, and current implementation status. That helps the agent work on the project without repeatedly rediscovering its design.

How rux-eth/iris configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to rux-eth/iris. 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/rux-eth/iris/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rux-eth/iris

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 1,373 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,373 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	$0.01373	$0.01373
Opus 5.5	$0.00549	$0.00549
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00275	$0.00275
Haiku 4.5	$0.00137	$0.00137

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9fa4fe255153, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iris 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 · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

What Is This Project

Iris — a self-hosted, chat-based personal life-management assistant for a single user (the owner), built on OpenClaw and driven by Claude. (Named for the Greek messenger goddess; persona lives in the workspace SOUL.md/IDENTITY.md, established PR-017.) The user talks to it over Telegram; it owns their Google Calendar, manages tasks in Todoist, produces a priority-ranked daily plan, surfaces reminders, and keeps competing demands (classes/assignments, work shifts, social plans, health, errands) in balance. It both advises and acts — cautiously at first, with autonomy expanding over time as trust is earned. Runs in Docker on the user's always-on Ubuntu desktop, reachable only over Tailscale. A partner may be added later (architecture supports it).

Build & Test Commands

Stack is Node.js + TypeScript (OpenClaw + our custom MCP server). Commands will be established by PR-001/PR-007 (no code exists yet). Expected shape:

Lint/typecheck/test: standard npm scripts (defined when the MCP server lands).
Deploy + smoke test: see docs/DEPLOYMENT.md.
Operate OpenClaw: openclaw security audit, openclaw secrets audit --check, OPENCLAW_CACHE_TRACE=1 for cache diagnostics.

Architecture

Hybrid "own the brain, rent the surfaces": an owned Markdown brain (GOALS.md/PRIORITIES.md) + custom owned-core MCP server is the source of truth; Google Calendar and Todoist are projected engagement surfaces. Full reference: docs/ARCHITECTURE.md.

Implementation Status

v0.1.0 shipped (2026-06-24) and is live on the box (Iris — persona, owned-core brain/memory/planner, calendar + task read/write, confirmation + verify + quarantine + egress gates, web research). v0.2.0 shipped (2026-07-04) — reliability + persona (D1–D5: live-state grounding, memory re-arch + gated sensitive store, reconciliation-in-code, personality dials, cost slimming). v0.2.1 (2026-07-18) is the cost-and-polish patch line (default Haiku 4.5 + owner /model switch, PDF ingestion, time-grounding + task-hygiene fixes, extended-thinking re-enabled, model-eval harness). The cost-reduction initiative continues on the pr-030 branch (bound session history, live on box, close-out pending). See docs/0.2/ROADMAP.md for the ordered plan; full PR descriptions in prs/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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 First seen · 86 lines · 1,373 tokens per session scan A 9fa4fe255153

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iris CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rux-eth/iris (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,373 tokens to every session, about $0.0055 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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