claude-code-best-practice is a repository of agents, commands, skills, hooks, plugins, and configuration guidance for Claude Code. It helps developers organize repeatable workflows and apply agentic engineering practices, including in monorepos. The catalogue entries are its reusable Claude Code workflow components.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practiceWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.01896 | $0.01896 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00758 | $0.00758 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00379 | $0.00379 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00190 | $0.00190 |
Grade B, and why
claude-code-best-practice CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 12d 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.
Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping
.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.
5. `~/.claude/settings.json`: Global personal defaults Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- claude-code-best-practice-zh CLAUDE.md — 100% identical, 2 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 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.
Repository Overview
This is a best practices repository for Claude Code configuration, demonstrating patterns for skills, subagents, hooks, and commands. It serves as a reference implementation rather than an application codebase.
Key Components
Weather System (Example Workflow)
A demonstration of two distinct skill patterns via the Command → Agent → Skill architecture:
/weather-orchestratorcommand (.claude/commands/weather-orchestrator.md): Entry point — asks user for C/F, invokes agent, then invokes SVG skillweather-agentagent (.claude/agents/weather-agent.md): Fetches temperature using its preloadedweather-fetcherskill (agent skill pattern)weather-fetcherskill (.claude/skills/weather-fetcher/SKILL.md): Preloaded into agent — instructions for fetching temperature from Open-Meteoweather-svg-creatorskill (.claude/skills/weather-svg-creator/SKILL.md): Skill — creates SVG weather card, writesorchestration-workflow/weather.svgandorchestration-workflow/output.md
Two skill patterns: agent skills (preloaded via skills: field) vs skills (invoked via Skill tool). See orchestration-workflow/orchestration-workflow.md for the complete flow diagram.
Skill Definition Structure
Skills in .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md use YAML frontmatter:
name: Display name and/slash-command(defaults to directory name)description: When to invoke (recommended for auto-discovery)argument-hint: Autocomplete hint (e.g.,[issue-number])disable-model-invocation: Settrueto prevent automatic invocationuser-invocable: Setfalseto hide from/menu (background knowledge only)allowed-tools: Tools allowed without permission prompts when skill is activemodel: Model to use when skill is activecontext: Set toforkto run in isolated subagent contextagent: Subagent type forcontext: fork(default:general-purpose)hooks: Lifecycle hooks scoped to this skill
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.
- 12d ago Changed · +66 tokens per session 174486558584
- 1mo ago First seen · 127 lines · 1,830 tokens per session scan B 9f9a7f3e400b
claude-code-best-practice CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice (68,074 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,896 tokens to every session, about $0.0076 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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