pith: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

pith CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from SiluPanda/pith. It costs 610 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Pith, an AI-native task-management system organized as a monorepo, meaning one repository containing several related packages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing, testing, migrating the database, seeding data, or navigating the packages in the Pith codebase.
Why use it?
They explain the project's architecture, database, API, web interface, command-line tool, AI integration, and common commands so an agent can work in the correct package and run the right checks.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to SiluPanda/pith. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
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CLAUDE.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — Pith Agent Instructions

This file provides context for AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) working on the Pith codebase.

Project Overview

Pith is an AI-native task management system. Monorepo with 7 packages:

  • packages/core — Shared Zod schemas, types, and constants
  • packages/db — Drizzle ORM schema, migrations, PostgreSQL client
  • packages/server — Fastify API server (all routes, auth, middleware)
  • packages/ai — Vercel AI SDK integration (optional AI features)
  • packages/mcp-server — MCP server (stdio + HTTP transports)
  • packages/cli — Commander.js CLI
  • packages/web — React + Vite web UI

Key Commands

npm install          # Install all dependencies
npm run dev          # Start API server (port 3456)
npm test             # Run all tests (128 tests)
npm run db:migrate   # Run database migrations (from packages/db/)
npm run db:seed      # Seed sample data

Architecture

  • API: Fastify with Zod validation, JWT + API key auth, RBAC
  • Database: PostgreSQL 16+ via Drizzle ORM
  • MCP: @modelcontextprotocol/sdk with stdio and HTTP/SSE transports
  • AI: Vercel AI SDK, provider-agnostic, graceful degradation
  • Testing: Vitest + Fastify inject (no Supertest needed)

Database

Connection via DATABASE_URL env var. Tables: users, projects, tasks, comments, activities, agent_sessions, labels, views, webhooks, webhook_deliveries, task_links, time_entries.

Testing

Tests are in packages/server/src/__tests__/ and packages/mcp-server/src/__tests__/. Run with npm test. Tests use a real PostgreSQL database (no mocks). The cleanDatabase() helper truncates all tables between test groups.

Code Patterns

  • Routes are in packages/server/src/routes/ as Fastify plugins
  • Response format: success(data), paginated(items, total, limit, offset), error(code, message)
  • Auth: authenticate hook + authorize(...roles) for RBAC
  • All list endpoints support pagination via limit and offset query params
  • Activity logging on task mutations (status_changed, priority_changed, assigned, etc.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

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pith CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository SiluPanda/pith (10 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 610 tokens to every session, about $0.0024 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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