polaroid: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

polaroid CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from sandeep-alluru/polaroid. It costs 240 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for polaroid that summarize its purpose, current phase, technology choices and minimum first release. The project is planned as a Python library for shared spatial memory, sensor data and natural-language queries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when evaluating the scene-graph backend, implementing the library and sensor adapter, defining the query interface, or checking the minimum viable release.
Why use it?
They give coding agents a concise record of the intended design and the next decision, reducing guesswork during early development.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

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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

polaroid — Session Anchor

Research spec: ../tech-research/12-Embodied-and-Physical-World/polaroid-a-persistent-shared-spatial-semantic-memory-la/README.md
One-liner: SQLite-moment for physical-world memory — embeddable CRDT scene graph + universal sensor broker
Phase: backlog
Stack: Python, automerge-py (or py-crdt), paho-mqtt

Key decisions

Next step

Read the research spec, then evaluate automerge-py vs py-crdt for the scene graph backend.

MVP definition

  • pip install polaroid-ai works
  • Embeddable spatiotemporal scene graph (nodes = physical entities, edges = spatial relationships)
  • CRDT-merged across multiple writers (no coordination overhead)
  • MQTT sensor adapter (paho-mqtt)
  • NL query interface: polaroid.query("what's near the door?")
  • Demo: two concurrent Python processes write conflicting entity positions → merge without error
  • README with warehouse/robotics example
Changes

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  1. 8d ago First seen · 22 lines · 240 tokens per session scan A c4899a18b4af

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polaroid CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sandeep-alluru/polaroid (0 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 240 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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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