vc: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

vc CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from steveyegge/vc. It costs 5,866 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

Project instructions for AI agents working on the vc codebase. They describe how to begin a session, prepare the environment, and install the local beads command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when starting work on vc, checking what to do next, or setting up its required local tools.
Why use it?
They provide repository-specific setup and workflow details that an agent would not know from the code alone.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is steveyegge/vc's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on vc 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 vc configures โ†’

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 5,866 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 5,866 The same file โ€” it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file โ€” not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.05866 $0.05866
Opus 5.5 $0.02346 $0.02346
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01173 $0.01173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00587 $0.00587

Measured 2mo ago against content hash cd18b3f1ed09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vc CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories โ€” prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency โ€” measured 2mo 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 ยท 782 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2mo ago First seen ยท 782 lines ยท 5,866 tokens per session scan A cd18b3f1ed09

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vc CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository steveyegge/vc (343 stars, last pushed 11mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 5,866 tokens to every session, about $0.0235 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 2026-08-30.

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