sd0x-harness: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

sd0x-harness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from sd0xdev/sd0x-harness. It costs 2,694 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of operating rules for Claude Code work, including required checks, automatic work loops, and limits on the changes an agent may make.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing with Claude Code to follow project rules, run required checks, handle stop-hook reminders, and manage automated development loops.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent a defined way to decide what to check, when to continue, and when human input is allowed.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

This is sd0xdev/sd0x-harness's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on sd0x-harness 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 sd0x-harness configures →

Runs only inside a plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sd0xdev/sd0x-harness. 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/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 2,694 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,694 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 $0.02694 $0.02694
Opus 5.5 $0.01078 $0.01078
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00539 $0.00539
Haiku 4.5 $0.00269 $0.00269

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 27b2ed4670a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sd0x-harness 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 · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

sd0x-dev-flow — Harness Engineering for Claude Code

How binding is a line in this file? Three tiers: Anchor (never deviate), Default (the normal call; deviate by stating a [DEVIATION] line that cites a fact signal, then keep working), Guidance (advisory). This file's own baseline is Default and lines above that baseline are marked inline — @rules/discretion.md classifies the plugin-managed rules/*.md, not this file, but its Anchor Register is the authority everywhere: a line here that hits the Register is Anchor no matter how it is worded or where it is restated.

Judgment inside the Default range is the expected behaviour, not a tolerated exception: decide from the change in front of you and continue. Uncertainty alone is not a reason to stop and ask — the human exits are the union of the ones enumerated in @rules/auto-loop.md and, for scope, in the contract @rules/scope-discipline.md points to (skills/codex-code-review/references/scope-contract.md § Human Exits); those two enumerations are the closed list, not this sentence.

Required Checks (Stop Hook reminded)

This table constrains the end state, not your choreography. How you batch edits, how deep you review, and when you run each gate are yours to choose; what is fixed is that every gate a change class requires has passed after the last edit in that class.

Change Type Must Run Can Skip
code files /codex-review-fast -> /precommit -
.md docs /codex-review-doc /codex-review-fast

Comment-only edits get no free pass: comments can carry compiler/lint/build directives (scripts/lib/utils.js:142 proves it), so edits to code files are conservatively classified as code even when only comments changed. Before PR: /pr-review.

The Stop Hook is a reminder, not a gate (hook-lightweighting, 2026-08-13): it prints which gates the reminder state still shows as owed and always exits 0. What binds is the behaviour layer — the terminal completion invariant in @rules/auto-loop.md — with verdicts recorded via node scripts/review-state.js note, digest-bound so an edit re-opens its plane. Details: docs/features/hook-lightweighting/2-tech-spec.md §3.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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.

  1. 1mo ago Changed · +16 lines · +382 tokens per session 27b2ed4670a5
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +90 tokens per session c59053609cfc
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +174 tokens per session 2e581439fc0f
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +48 tokens per session ed71e4d0a718
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 75 lines · 2,000 tokens per session scan A f464621af2ea

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sd0x-harness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sd0xdev/sd0x-harness (194 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,694 tokens to every session, about $0.0108 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 2026-08-30.

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