notarize: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

notarize CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from sandeep-alluru/notarize. It costs 210 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A Claude Code session guide for notarize, an open protocol for cleaning, hashing, publishing, and verifying AI-agent execution records. It records the project's current decisions, next step, technology stack, and planned first version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when asking Claude to design the trace format or plan the Python library, command-line tool, server, or LangSmith import.
Why use it?
It gives Claude the background needed to continue work without losing the project's research context or intended design.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is sandeep-alluru/notarize's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on notarize 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 notarize configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 210 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 210 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 $0.00210 $0.00210
Opus 5.5 $0.00084 $0.00084
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00021

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d445121e7aad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notarize 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 1mo 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 · 22 lines

What it actually says

notarize — Session Anchor

Research spec: ../tech-research/02-Verification-Provenance-and-Audit/notarize-the-open-protocol-and-marketplace-for-verifi/README.md
One-liner: Open protocol for verified agentic execution traces — canonicalize, scrub, hash, publish
Phase: backlog
Stack: Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, hashlib (stdlib)

Key decisions

Next step

Read the research spec, then design the canonical trace JSON schema.

MVP definition

  • pip install notarize works
  • JSON schema for canonical agent trace format
  • Python library: trace normalization + privacy scrubbing + content-hash generation
  • CLI: notarize submit trace.json, notarize verify <hash>
  • FastAPI reference server (SQLite backend)
  • Adapter: ingest a LangSmith export → Notarize format
  • README with schema diagram and quickstart
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. 1mo ago First seen · 22 lines · 210 tokens per session scan A d445121e7aad

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notarize CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sandeep-alluru/notarize (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 210 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-01.

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