claudeman CLAUDE.md

claudeman CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from scottrigby/claudeman. It costs 381 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project guide for Claude sessions in the Claudeman codebase. It explains where documentation belongs, how tests are grouped, and how to run the command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing Claudeman, updating its README, architecture notes, roadmap, or workflow instructions, and when running unit, integration, or end-to-end tests.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents consistent project rules and helps developers choose the right checks without guessing about network or container requirements.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/scottrigby/claudeman/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/scottrigby/claudeman

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Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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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 $0.00381 $0.00381
Opus 5 $0.00191 $0.00191
Sonnet 5 $0.00076 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00038 $0.00038

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0ccb7f3fb589, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claudeman 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 4d 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 · 54 lines

What it actually says

Claudeman Development

Documentation Files

  • README.md — user-facing install, usage, and migration reference
  • ARCHITECTURE.md — design decisions, data flows, and "why" explanations for non-obvious choices
  • ROADMAP.md — future enhancement ideas organized by category; uses - [ ] checkboxes for actionable items
  • CLAUDE.md (this file) — dev workflow instructions for Claude sessions (testing, git policy)

Testing

If developing from inside a container (e.g., via claudeman itself), run npm install first — native modules like vitest's rolldown binding are platform-specific and need to be rebuilt for the container's architecture.

Tests are split into three tiers:

npm test                  # unit — fast, offline, runs in containers
npm run test:integration  # integration — needs network (containers.dev API)
npm run test:e2e          # e2e — needs container runtime (podman/docker) + network
npm run test:all          # all tiers

File naming convention:

  • *.test.js — unit tests
  • *.integration.test.js — network-dependent tests
  • *.e2e.test.js — container runtime tests (future)

For a quick smoke test of the CLI:

./claudeman help
./claudeman feature search go
./claudeman profile list
./claudeman migrate --help

To test notifications manually (requires two terminals on host):

# Terminal 1
./claudeman listen

# Terminal 2
node lib/notify.js complete "test"

Git Policy

  • Read-only git commands are allowed
  • Any git command that modifies the Git state requires explicit user permission
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. 4d ago First seen · 54 lines · 381 tokens per session scan A 0ccb7f3fb589

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claudeman CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository scottrigby/claudeman (20 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 381 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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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