claude-code.el CLAUDE.md

A development guide for the `claude-code.el` Emacs package, including build commands, tests, naming rules, documentation, and project structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Compiling and linting Emacs Lisp, following the package’s coding style, and handling its dependencies and documentation.
Why use it?
It gives contributors consistent instructions for checking and maintaining the package.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/stevemolitor/claude-code.el/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stevemolitor/claude-code.el
Per session 377 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 377 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00377 $0.00377
Opus 5 $0.00188 $0.00188
Sonnet 5 $0.00075 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00038 $0.00038

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7d755f8eb7ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-code.el 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 3d 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 · 32 lines

What it actually says

Claude Code Development Guide

Build and Test Commands

  • Install package: M-x package-install-file RET /path/to/claude-code.el
  • Use project Makefile targets (preferred methods):
    • Byte compile: make compile
    • Lint with checkdoc: make checkdoc
    • Run both checkdoc and compile: make all
  • Alternative direct commands:
    • Byte compile: emacs -Q --batch -f batch-byte-compile claude-code.el
    • Check package: emacs -Q --batch -l package-lint.el -f package-lint-batch-and-exit claude-code.el
    • Lint with checkdoc: emacs -Q --batch -l checkdoc -f checkdoc-file claude-code.el

Code Style Guidelines

  • Prefix all functions/variables with claude-code- (public) or claude-code-- (private)
  • Follow standard Emacs Lisp naming conventions (kebab-case)
  • Use lexical binding (include lexical-binding: t in header)
  • Organize with section headers: ;;;; Section Name
  • Maintain proper package headers and autoload declarations
  • Docstring for all functions and variables
    • Add a blank line after the first line of docstrings for multi-line descriptions
    • First line should be a complete sentence ending with a period
  • Maintain dependency requirements: Emacs 30.1+, transient 0.4.0+, eat 0.8+

Error Handling

  • Use if-let for conditional execution with potential null values
  • Provide clear error messages with error function
  • Check for running Claude instance before sending commands

Project Structure

  • Single file package with clear module organization
  • Licensed under Apache License 2.0
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. 3d ago First seen · 32 lines · 377 tokens per session scan A 7d755f8eb7ea

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claude-code.el CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository stevemolitor/claude-code.el (743 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 377 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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 2026-08-30.

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