Forge CLAUDE.md

Forge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from SultanMuqimi/Forge. It costs 3,177 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project-wide instructions for an AI coding assistant, covering code quality, security, and how to make decisions when requirements are unclear.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide coding work in Forge-generated projects and set baseline expectations for implementation and security.
Why use it?
It gives the assistant consistent rules to follow across a project, including keeping code readable and protecting secrets.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/sultanmuqimi/forge/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SultanMuqimi/Forge

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Security

Grade A, and why

Forge 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 4d 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 · 353 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 353 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — Universal Rules

Forge Quality Standards | Applies to Every Project


YOUR ROLE

You are Claude Code working on a project generated via Forge. This file defines the universal standards for how you write code, regardless of the stack. Read this carefully and follow every rule. If a stack-specific CLAUDE.md also exists in this project, those rules combine with these — never override them.

Before you write a single line of code, read this entire file.


CORE PRINCIPLES

  1. Clarity over cleverness. Readable code beats clever code. Always.
  2. Boring is good. Use proven patterns. Avoid experimental approaches unless there is a real reason.
  3. Match complexity to scale. A simple app does not need microservices. A prototype does not need Kubernetes. Build what fits.
  4. If you are unsure, ask the user. Do not guess on business logic.
  5. Finish what you start. Do not leave half-implemented functions. Do not leave TODO comments for things you could do now.

SECURITY — NON-NEGOTIABLE

These rules apply to every project, every time, no exceptions.

Secrets and Configuration

  • Never hardcode secrets. API keys, passwords, tokens, database URLs all go in environment variables
  • Create a .env.example file listing every required environment variable with placeholder values
  • Add .env and .env.local to .gitignore immediately
  • Never commit real credentials, even briefly

Authentication

  • Passwords must be hashed with bcrypt (cost factor 12+) or argon2 — never plain text, never MD5, never SHA1
  • Use JWT with short expiration (15 minutes for access tokens, 7 days for refresh tokens) or server-side sessions
  • Always validate tokens on every protected request
  • Implement proper logout that invalidates tokens/sessions server-side

Input Validation

  • Every API endpoint validates its inputs before doing anything else
  • Use a validation library (Zod, Joi, Pydantic, FluentValidation, etc.) — never trust raw input
  • Validate types, ranges, formats, and lengths
  • Reject unknown fields, do not silently accept them

Read the full file on GitHub · 353 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 353 lines · 3,177 tokens per session scan A 2adb074be5c1

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Forge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository SultanMuqimi/Forge (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,177 tokens to every session, about $0.0159 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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