What is Dystil CLAUDE.md?

Claude-specific repository instructions for Dystil, a local desktop app that finds repeated work and turns it into reusable instructions. They add rules for keeping shared agent guidance and documentation accurate.

Use them when changing docs, the README, or marketing copy in Dystil, and when checking claims against the code and shared AGENTS.md file.

They reduce conflicts between Claude's instructions and the repository's main guidance, especially when editing documentation or marketing text.

How Second-Order-Systems/Dystil configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Second-Order-Systems/Dystil. 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/Second-Order-Systems/Dystil/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Second-Order-Systems/Dystil

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

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/second-order-systems/dystil/claude-md/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/second-order-systems/dystil/claude-md)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/second-order-systems/dystil/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/second-order-systems/dystil/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/second-order-systems/dystil/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/second-order-systems/dystil/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 124 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 124 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	$0.00124	$0.00124
Opus 5.5	$0.00050	$0.00050
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00025	$0.00025
Haiku 4.5	$0.00012	$0.00012

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8c039e62f56a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Dystil 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 · 13 lines

What it actually says

@AGENTS.md

Claude Code

The imported AGENTS.md above is the shared instruction set for every coding agent in this repo. Keep project instructions there, not here, so tools that read AGENTS.md stay in sync. This file is only for Claude-specific additions.

Before writing or editing anything in docs/, re-read the "Source of truth" section of AGENTS.md. Documents in this repo have been confidently wrong before.
When a task touches the README or marketing copy, verify claims against the code first and cite what you checked.

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 · 13 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A 8c039e62f56a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Dystil CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Second-Order-Systems/Dystil (27 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 124 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 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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Dystil: Instructions file for Claude Code