claude-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Smirnov-Labs/claude-skills. It costs 1,872 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A Claude Code project instruction file that uses a memory bank to preserve project context between coding sessions. It lists the memory files to read and sets expectations for planning and code quality.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize Claude Code sessions, read the project’s stored context, follow its development conventions, and review non-trivial changes.
Why use it?
It helps the agent recover the project’s goals, architecture, technical setup, current work, and progress instead of starting without context.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is Smirnov-Labs/claude-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-skills 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 claude-skills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Smirnov-Labs/claude-skills. 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/Smirnov-Labs/claude-skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Smirnov-Labs/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.01872 $0.01872
Opus 5 $0.00936 $0.00936
Sonnet 5 $0.00374 $0.00374
Haiku 4.5 $0.00187 $0.00187

Measured 11d ago against content hash a531e3d30fa8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-skills 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 11d 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 · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Configuration

This file contains project-specific intelligence and configuration for Claude Code sessions.

Memory Bank System

This project uses a Memory Bank system to maintain context across sessions. All memory files are stored in .claude/memory-bank/ and should be read at the start of every conversation.

Core Memory Files (Read these in order):

  1. memory-rules.md - System documentation
  2. projectbrief.md - Foundation document
  3. productContext.md - Product vision
  4. systemPatterns.md - Architecture patterns
  5. techContext.md - Technical setup
  6. activeContext.md - Current work focus
  7. progress.md - Status tracking

Elegance Demand

For non-trivial changes, pause and ask yourself: is there a more elegant solution? If your plan feels hacky, step back and rebuild it properly. Elegant code is simple, clear, and does not fight the architecture.

If you encounter pre-existing issues in code you're touching, be a good citizen and clean them up too. Leave the codebase better than you found it.

Instructions for Claude

On Every Session Start:

  1. Read all core memory bank files in the order listed above
  2. Verify understanding of current context
  3. Check activeContext.md for immediate priorities
  4. Review progress.md to understand what's complete and what's pending

When User Says "update memory bank":

  1. Review ALL memory bank files (mandatory - don't skip any)
  2. Update files that need changes based on recent work
  3. Pay special attention to activeContext.md and progress.md
  4. Document any new patterns discovered
  5. Update project intelligence in this file if needed

Planning Mode (via /plan command):

  1. Read Memory Bank (automatic)
  2. Verify context completeness
  3. Ask 4-6 clarifying questions based on findings
  4. Draft comprehensive plan
  5. Get user approval
  6. Implement systematically

Project Intelligence

This section grows as patterns and preferences are discovered during work on this project.

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 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. 11d ago First seen · 195 lines · 1,872 tokens per session scan A a531e3d30fa8

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claude-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Smirnov-Labs/claude-skills (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,872 tokens to every session, about $0.0094 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 2026-08-31.

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