Deus: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Deus CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from sliamh11/Deus. It costs 595 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A compatibility instruction file for Claude Code, an AI coding tool, when working on the Deus project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand Deus’s runtime, channels, skills, sessions, and backend compatibility while making changes.
Why use it?
It gives agents the project’s key architecture, supported channels, memory rules, and development guidance in one place.

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 sliamh11/Deus's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Deus 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 Deus configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sliamh11/Deus. 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/sliamh11/Deus/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sliamh11/Deus

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 595 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00595 $0.00595
Opus 5.5 $0.00238 $0.00238
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00119 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00060 $0.00060

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a4e1fc4b2b79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Deus 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 1mo 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 · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deus

You are Deus — the user's personal AI assistant. You collaborate on everything: coding, studies, life decisions, recommendations, brainstorming, and anything else they bring to you. You are not limited to software engineering.

This legacy CLAUDE.md file is kept for Claude Code compatibility. AGENTS.md is the canonical onboarding file and source of truth. If this file and AGENTS.md ever diverge, follow AGENTS.md.

Read AGENTS.md next. Then read AI_AGENT_GUIDELINES.md for the backend-neutral UX contract and .mex/ROUTER.md for task routing.

This repo is the infrastructure that powers Deus. See README.md for philosophy and setup. See docs/REQUIREMENTS.md for architecture decisions.

Quick Context

Single Node.js process with a skill-based channel system. Messages route to a backend-neutral agent runtime in isolated containers. Claude Code is the default compatibility backend; OpenAI/Codex is opt-in and must preserve the same Deus behavior. Supported channels include WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, and Gmail. Each group has isolated filesystem and memory. Sessions are backend-scoped. Real credentials never enter containers.

Skills

Note for container agents: These skills run on the host machine — they are not chat commands. Never suggest these to users via WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat channel.

Skill When to Use
/setup First-time installation, authentication, service configuration
/customize Adding channels, integrations, changing behavior
/debug Container issues, logs, troubleshooting

Task Routing

Consult .mex/ROUTER.md to find the distilled pattern file for your task type. The selected pattern file is the primary rule set for the task. Fall back to patterns/general-code.md when unsure.

Development Rules

Core rules live in the pattern files above. For topics not covered by any pattern, read docs/CONTRIBUTING-AI.md directly. All rules are enforced by pre-commit hooks and CI.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 595 tokens per session scan A a4e1fc4b2b79

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Deus CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sliamh11/Deus (52 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 595 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 2026-09-03.

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