SHAFT_ENGINE CLAUDE.md

SHAFT_ENGINE CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE. It costs 285 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for SHAFT_ENGINE that tells agents to use ChaosEngine and a code knowledge graph. A knowledge graph maps relationships between code files and concepts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps agents query relationships, trace how concepts connect across the codebase, navigate project documentation, and refresh the code graph after edits.
Why use it?
It provides a required startup workflow and a focused way to investigate codebase questions without reading unrelated files. It also keeps the graph updated after code changes.

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/shafthq/shaft_engine/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE

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README.md
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Per session 285 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 285 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00285 $0.00285
Opus 5 $0.00143 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00057 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00028

Measured 4d ago against content hash a6a5cfabff15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

SHAFT_ENGINE 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 · 20 lines

What it actually says

Claude adapter

@AGENTS.md

Load ChaosEngine before every task. AGENTS.md and its canonical entrypoint own policy; this file adds none.

Before every task, follow the canonical ChaosEngine. Use .chaos-engine/tool.py for the project-local Memory, MemPalace, and Graphify tools.

graphify

This project has a knowledge graph at graphify-out/ with god nodes, community structure, and cross-file relationships.

Rules:

  • For codebase questions, first run graphify query "<question>" when graphify-out/graph.json exists. Use graphify path "<A>" "<B>" for relationships and graphify explain "<concept>" for focused concepts. These return a scoped subgraph, usually much smaller than GRAPH_REPORT.md or raw grep output.
  • If graphify-out/wiki/index.md exists, use it for broad navigation instead of raw source browsing.
  • Read graphify-out/GRAPH_REPORT.md only for broad architecture review or when query/path/explain do not surface enough context.
  • After modifying code, run graphify update . to keep the graph current (AST-only, no API cost).
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 · 20 lines · 285 tokens per session scan A a6a5cfabff15

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SHAFT_ENGINE CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE (407 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 285 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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.