autonomous-ai-agency: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

autonomous-ai-agency CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from strikersam/autonomous-ai-agency. It costs 4,241 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project operating manual for coding agents working on the autonomous-ai-agency repository. It contains binding rules, architecture guidance, security requirements, and instructions for using the project's knowledge graph.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides repository exploration, code changes, knowledge-graph queries, security checks, and the placement of project components.
Why use it?
It tells agents what they must check and obey before changing code, reducing unsafe edits and misunderstandings about the system.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to strikersam/autonomous-ai-agency. 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/strikersam/autonomous-ai-agency/master/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/strikersam/autonomous-ai-agency

Made for: Claude Code.

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Grade A, and why

autonomous-ai-agency 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 7d 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 · 299 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 299 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — Operating Manual

§1 and §2 are the binding ruleset for every AI agent working in this repository — Claude, Codex, Cursor, Aider, or anything else. Read them before changing code. §1 is repo-specific wiring; §2 is agent discipline, extracted verbatim into the production prompts of this repo's own agents. Everything after §2 is reference: facts about the system, not instructions.

The rules live here and nowhere else. AGENTS.md and ENGINEERING_STANDARDS.md hold reference material and point back to this section rather than restating it. If you find a rule duplicated somewhere, delete the copy — duplicated rules drift, and this repo has the scars to prove it (.claude/rules-archive/CONFLICTS.md). The one deliberate exception is rule 49 (independent verification): the operator asked for it in every agent's instruction file, so it is mirrored verbatim and a parity check (scripts/check_verification_rule.py) keeps the copies identical.

Before opening a source file, query the knowledge graph — it costs a fraction of a Read/Grep pass:

graphify query "how does model routing work"
graphify explain "AgentRunner"
graphify path "OnboardingScreen" "CompanyGraphStore"
cat graphify-out/GRAPH_REPORT.md     # free overview: god nodes, communities
graphify update .                    # refresh after you change things

If graphify is missing: python -m pip install graphifyy && graphify install && graphify update .


1. The Rules

44 rules. They survive because an agent that had never read them would get this repo wrong. Generally-good engineering practice is deliberately absent — it is assumed, not legislated. See .claude/rules-archive/ for the audit that produced this list and the 308 statements it replaced.

A. Prime directive

  1. Do not change user-visible behaviour that was not requested. If a refactor could alter an output, capture the before/after and revert on any difference.

B. Wiring — where things must go

Read the full file on GitHub · 299 lines

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autonomous-ai-agency CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository strikersam/autonomous-ai-agency (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 4,241 tokens to every session, about $0.0170 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 2026-09-03.

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