prism: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

prism CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Shailesh200/prism. It costs 514 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for agents working on Prism, a local-first software intelligence tool that maps code, dependencies, impact, and health. They describe required documents, branches, scope, verification, and approval steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking project plans and architecture, selecting the active milestone, following Prism's development workflow, running verification, and preparing changes for owner review.
Why use it?
They give coding agents the project rules they must follow before changing Prism, helping prevent work on the wrong branch, milestone, or architecture.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is Shailesh200/prism's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on prism 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 prism configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Shailesh200/prism. 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/Shailesh200/prism/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Shailesh200/prism

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Grade A, and why

prism 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 7d 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 · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — Claude / Agent Notes for Prism

Companion to AGENTS.md. Follow both.

Project

Prism — local context and change checks for coding agents, exposed via Core, MCP, CLI, and IDE extensions.

Before writing code

  1. Confirm Master Plan status is APPROVED (plans/00_MASTER_DEVELOPMENT_PLAN.md).
  2. Confirm M-000 Architecture Documentation is Verified (HLD/LLD/tech docs under plans/architecture/).
  3. Confirm exactly one milestone is In Progress in plans/PROGRESS.md.
  4. Work only on milestone/M-XXX-… branch created from latest main.
  5. Implement only that milestone’s In Scope items.
    First code milestone is M-001 (after M-000).

Do not

  • Develop on main
  • Stack milestone branches
  • Create git commits before the owner explicitly approves (keep work in the working tree until then)
  • Push remotes unless the human owner explicitly requests it
  • Bypass @repo-prism/core from MCP/CLI/extensions
  • Add cloud/network dependencies to Core analysis paths
  • Expand milestone scope silently

Preferred workflow

Read milestone doc → implement (no commits) → bun run verify:milestone → fix → request owner review → owner approves → commit on milestone branch → owner approves merge → merge locally to main → mark Verified → share short “what changed” snippet with owner → next branch from main

Packages (mental model)

Package Role
shared contracts
analyzer / indexer / graph-engine engine internals
intelligence / impact / navigation domain engines
checks receipt checks
plugin Claude Code plugin pack, skills and hooks
daemon one local process that keeps each repo's index fresh and answers over loopback (ADR-0063)
core public SDK (analysis)
mcp-server / cli surfaces
ui components for the docs website

MCP

Tools call Core and return JSON-serializable DTOs from @repo-prism/shared. Nine tools are registered by default; opt-in tools come from ~/.prism/config.json extraTools[].

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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.

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  2. 1mo ago Changed · +3 tokens per session 8fc64574f38d
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 522 tokens per session scan A 4cf34b51230f

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prism CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Shailesh200/prism (10 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 514 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 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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