skillsmith: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

skillsmith CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from smith-horn/skillsmith. It costs 37,586 tokens per session, scanned C, original, no licence file.

A Claude Code instruction file for developing and maintaining the Skillsmith project.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding Claude Code through Skillsmith configuration, documentation, Docker-based development, continuous-integration checks, and project conventions.
Why use it?
It records project rules and working guidance so agents can follow the repository's expected setup, checks, and development process.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is smith-horn/skillsmith's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on skillsmith 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 skillsmith configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 37,586 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 37,586 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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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 $0.37586 $0.37586
Opus 5.5 $0.15034 $0.15034
Sonnet 5.5 $0.07517 $0.07517
Haiku 4.5 $0.03759 $0.03759

Measured today against content hash ae97cdb68904, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

skillsmith CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 2 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 today.

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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

| `npm run build`/`astro check` fails inside a worktree container with "Turborepo did not find the correct binary for your platform" or "Cannot find native binding"/"Cannot find module '@rolldown/binding-...'" for a buil

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| `ovhcifugwqnzoebwfuku` | Staging | Low-cadence — data lags prod; never curl this when verifying a prod deploy |
CLAUDE.md · 513 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

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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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skillsmith CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository smith-horn/skillsmith (77 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 37,586 tokens to every session, about $0.1503 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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