What is claude-code-bible CLAUDE.md?

Editing instructions for a Markdown book about Claude Code, an AI coding tool. They describe its numbered chapters, table of contents, writing conventions, and how changes are published.

Use them when changing chapters, updating the contents list, adding cross-links, or reviewing documentation changes.

They keep chapter order, links, and the book’s structure correct when contributors edit or add content.

How sebyx07/claude-code-bible configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sebyx07/claude-code-bible. 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/sebyx07/claude-code-bible/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sebyx07/claude-code-bible

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 858 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 858 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	$0.00858	$0.00858
Opus 5.5	$0.00343	$0.00343
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00172	$0.00172
Haiku 4.5	$0.00086	$0.00086

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 7e8c2a3d0b37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-code-bible 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 · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What this repo is

A prose book — "The Claude Code Bible" — distributed as Markdown. No source code, no build, no tests, no CI. Edits ship by committing .md files.

README.md — landing page and chapter index (TOC table, quick wins, license).
docs/NN-<slug>.md — numbered chapters, 01 through 12. Read top-to-bottom as a book.
LICENSE — MIT.
.gitignore ignores .claude/, so local agent config here is never committed.

Default branch: main. Remote: origin. No tags, no release process — readers consume from GitHub directly.

Chapter layout

Chapters are numbered so the TOC order in README.md matches filename order. Adding a new chapter means:

Create docs/NN-<slug>.md with the next number.
Add a row to the TOC table in README.md (keep columns aligned: #, Chapter link, "What it covers").
Cross-links between chapters use relative paths like [ch. 11](docs/11-compressed-config.md) from the README, or [ch. 11](11-compressed-config.md) from inside docs/.

Renumbering = renaming files and rewriting every inter-chapter link. Avoid unless necessary.

Writing conventions (this repo eats its own dog food)

The rules in docs/11-compressed-config.md govern this repo's own prose. When editing any .md here, follow them:

Lead with the rule, not the reason. Fragments over sentences where natural.
Tables for any ≥3-row structured data (see README TOC, ch. 11 cost table).
Code blocks, shell commands, file paths, URLs, and version strings stay verbatim — compress the prose around them, not these.
No meta-framing ("This section covers…"), no rhetoric ("this is critical"), no trailing summary paragraphs.
One rule per line in rule lists; imperative voice.
Size budgets per file type (from ch. 11): CLAUDE.md <600 lines · SKILL.md <80 · agent <50 · command <30. Chapters themselves aren't capped but aim for high info density — current chapters run ~100–400 lines.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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 · 61 lines · 858 tokens per session scan A 7e8c2a3d0b37

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-code-bible CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sebyx07/claude-code-bible (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 858 tokens to every session, about $0.0034 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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