claude-conductor: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-conductor CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from superbasicstudio/claude-conductor. It costs 2,156 tokens per session, scanned A, original, BSD-2-Clause.

A documentation guide for Claude Conductor, a modular set of Markdown files that helps Claude Code work consistently on a project. It describes the main documentation file and planned areas such as architecture, configuration, APIs, builds, and testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when Claude Code needs to understand or extend the project's documentation system, architecture, development setup, or contribution guidance.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent a shared project map and important rules, including preserving and summarising journal history instead of deleting it.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is superbasicstudio/claude-conductor's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-conductor 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 claude-conductor configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to superbasicstudio/claude-conductor. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/superbasicstudio/claude-conductor

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CLAUDE.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Critical Context (Read First)

  • Tech Stack: Documentation framework (Markdown)
  • Main File: CONDUCTOR.md (437 lines)
  • Core Mechanic: Modular documentation system for AI-assisted development
  • Key Integration: Claude Code AI assistant
  • Platform Support: Any project using Claude Code
  • DO NOT: Delete raw history from JOURNAL.md - only move & summarize

Project Architecture

This is a documentation framework designed to work with Claude Code AI assistant. The system provides:

Core Component

  • CONDUCTOR.md (CONDUCTOR.md:1-437) - Master template that defines the entire documentation system

Planned Documentation Modules

The framework defines 13 interconnected documentation files:

  1. ARCHITECTURE.md - Tech stack and system design
  2. DESIGN.md - Visual design system
  3. UIUX.md - User interaction patterns
  4. CONFIG.md - Runtime configuration
  5. DATA_MODEL.md - Database schema
  6. API.md - API documentation
  7. BUILD.md - Build and deployment
  8. TEST.md - Testing strategies
  9. CONTRIBUTING.md - Contributor guidelines
  10. PLAYBOOKS/DEPLOY.md - Operational procedures
  11. ERRORS.md - Critical error tracking
  12. JOURNAL.md - Development changelog

Development Workflow

Since this is a documentation framework, the typical workflow is:

  1. Start with CONDUCTOR.md - Review the template structure
  2. Create project-specific CLAUDE.md - Adapt this template for target project
  3. Implement documentation modules - Create the 13 files as needed
  4. Set up journaling system - Begin tracking changes in JOURNAL.md
  5. Maintain cross-links - Keep documentation interconnected
  6. Archive when needed - Move old journal entries when exceeding 500 lines

Key Features

Line Number Anchors (CONDUCTOR.md:278-284)

  • Documents require exact line numbers for code references
  • Format: **Class Name (Lines 100-200)**
  • HTML anchors: <!-- #class-name -->

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 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. 2mo ago First seen · 209 lines · 2,156 tokens per session scan A 5dbefc95dba6

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claude-conductor CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository superbasicstudio/claude-conductor (381 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed BSD-2-Clause. It adds 2,156 tokens to every session, about $0.0086 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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