solofounder: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

solofounder CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from solofounder-ai/solofounder. It costs 354 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Contributor instructions for SoloFounder, a project organized into agent skills, reusable capabilities, platform hooks, and documentation. They describe project rules, architecture decisions, and how contributors should work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when modifying SoloFounder skills, capabilities, hooks, agents, plugins, or project documentation.
Why use it?
They help changes follow the project's strict standards, including no silent fallbacks, clear failures, zero dependencies, and verification.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

This is solofounder-ai/solofounder's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on solofounder 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 solofounder configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to solofounder-ai/solofounder. 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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CLAUDE.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

SoloFounder — Contributor Guidelines

Project Structure

skills/           Meta-skills that orchestrate (the brain)
capabilities/     Battle-tested disciplines and tools (the toolbox)
hooks/            Platform integration (session start context injection)
.claude-plugin/   Claude Code plugin manifest
.cursor-plugin/   Cursor plugin manifest
docs/             Specs and plans

The Five Iron Laws

All contributions must respect:

  1. No fallbacks. No silent failures. No temp solutions.
  2. One correct path. If it fails, STOP.
  3. Every exception is actionable.
  4. Implementation costs nothing. Never trade quality for speed.
  5. Everything is reviewed and verified.

Key Decisions

  • Zero dependencies. No npm packages. Node.js built-ins only for the mockup server.
  • Skills are markdown. No custom runtime. The LLM is the orchestrator.
  • Dynamic over static. Flows, stages, and roles are generated per-request, not hardcoded.
  • Capabilities are battle-tested. TDD, debugging, verification — these are proven and should not be casually modified.
  • solofounder: namespace. All skills and capabilities use the solofounder: prefix.
  • Clarify before acting. Every request starts with clarifying questions (with options and a recommended path) before any flow is designed. Never assume — ask.
  • Unlimited dev resources. Development time and compute are unlimited. Never trade quality for speed. Only optimize for runtime performance — what end users experience.

Spec

Full product design: docs/solofounder/specs/2026-04-01-solofounder-design.md

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. 10d ago First seen · 37 lines · 354 tokens per session scan A eaa8dc629916

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solofounder CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository solofounder-ai/solofounder (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 354 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 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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