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.
npx agentmods add instructions/stratalab/strata-core/claude-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stratalab/strata-coreWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.02900 | $0.02900 |
| Opus 5 | $0.01450 | $0.01450 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00580 | $0.00580 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00290 | $0.00290 |
Grade A, and why
strata-core 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 2d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Strata-Core: Claude Code Instructions
Status
The V1 architecture is the product. main carries the V1 line; the v1 integration branch has been promoted and retired. Pre-V1 code exists only in git history — do not resurrect it.
Workspace version is 1.0.0, inherited from [workspace.package]. Publish names are decided: stratadb (embedded-library facade crate) and strata-cli (the strata binary). All crates remain publish = false until the release train lands.
The V1 line is a clean break. No compatibility shims between old and new code, no migration tooling for pre-V1 databases, no parallel old/new paths held alive indefinitely. Opening a pre-V1 database directory fails with failed_precondition.engine.layout_version.
V1 Stack
core
→ storage
→ engine
→ intelligence → executor / CLI / SDK / Strata AI
→ inference
- core — smallest shared atoms (
BranchId,CommitVersion, timestamp, type-local validation errors). NoValue, noEntityRef, no storage transaction IDs. - storage — generic persistence mechanics, L1-L9 layered. Knows nothing about KV/JSON/event/vector/graph semantics.
- engine — product semantics, data capabilities, branches, time travel, retrieval, IPC classification, clone artifacts, derived-state manifests. Owns adapter traits used by intelligence.
- intelligence — autoembedding, query expansion, reranking, RAG, generation orchestration. Consumes engine surfaces; never imports storage; never speaks provider HTTP.
- inference — provider execution and model artifact resolution.
Generator/Embedder/Rerankertraits. Knows nothing about Strata databases. - executor / CLI / SDK / Strata AI — consume engine and intelligence. Never import storage directly. Never import inference directly.
Where To Read Before Working On A Slice
- Roadmap —
docs/architecture/strata-v1-implementation-roadmap.md - Current milestone plan —
docs/architecture/implementation-plans/m{N}-m{N}t-implementation-plan.md - Layer architecture —
docs/architecture/{layer}-architecture.md - Contracts —
docs/architecture/engine/<contract>.mdordocs/architecture/storage/<layer>.md(docs keep their design-phase names) - Test inventory —
docs/architecture/v1-existing-test-inventory-and-porting-plan.md - Engineering standards —
docs/architecture/v1-engineering-standards.md - Error contract —
docs/architecture/v1-error-and-diagnostics-contract.md - Storage format spec —
docs/spec/strata-storage-format-v1.md - Adding/changing a command —
crates/executor/idl/v1/README.md(the IDL runbook: authored files, regenerate/verify sequence, coverage guards, SDK wiring)
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 243 lines · 2,900 tokens per session scan A 486e5fa30034
strata-core CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository stratalab/strata-core (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,900 tokens to every session, about $0.0145 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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