What is dotfiles CLAUDE.md?

A repository guide for a dotfiles project, which stores shell settings, utility scripts, agent skills, rules, and installation automation. It also explains the separate private repository used for sensitive files.

It is for understanding the repository structure, installing its configuration, and finding common development commands.

It gives a coding agent the project layout and the commands needed to work safely in the repository.

How surajssd/dotfiles configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to surajssd/dotfiles. 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/surajssd/dotfiles/master/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/surajssd/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 7,578 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 7,578 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.07578	$0.07578
Opus 5.5	$0.03031	$0.03031
Sonnet 5.5	$0.01516	$0.01516
Haiku 4.5	$0.00758	$0.00758

Measured 13d ago against content hash a459413b7256, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotfiles 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 13d 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 · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 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.

Repository Overview

This is a dotfiles repository containing personal shell configurations, custom utility scripts, and installation automation. The repository manages both public and private dotfiles through a dual-repository structure.

Repository Structure

The repository follows a two-tier architecture:

Public repository (./): Contains shareable configurations and scripts
Private repository (./dotfilesprivate/): Separate git clone (not a submodule) containing private/sensitive scripts and configs. It is .gitignore'd and cloned via make clone-private

Both repositories mirror the same structure:

configs/ - Shell configurations, git configs, and tool settings
local-bin/ - Custom utility scripts
skills/ - Agent skills in SKILL.md format (symlinked to ~/.claude/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/)
rules/ - Agent rule .md files (symlinked to ~/.claude/rules/)
tools/planner/ - Go module for the planner command (public repo only, installed with go install)
tools/asana/ - Go module for the asana task-creation command (public repo only, installed with go install)
tools/yt-playlist-creator/ - Go module for private YouTube playlists, with its agent skill in skill/ (public repo only, installed with go install)
installers/ - Installation automation scripts (public repo only)

Common Commands

Installation

# Install all configs, scripts, skills, rules, and Go commands
make install-all

# Install only scripts to ~/.local/bin
make install-local-bin

# Install only config files
make install-configs

# Install only agent skills to ~/.claude/skills and ~/.agents/skills
make install-skills

# Install only agent rules to ~/.claude/rules
make install-rules

# Build and install the planner Go command (skipped when go is absent)
make install-planner

# Build and install the asana Go command (skipped when go is absent)
make install-asana

# Build and install the playlist Go command (skipped when go is absent)
make install-yt-playlist-creator

# Download external skills (mattpocock, bastos, blader) into skills/ — also run by 'make update'
make fetch-external-skills

# Verify vendored rules in rules/ (fetches any fetch-mode entries) — also run by 'make update'
make fetch-external-rules

# Pull latest from both public and private repos
make pull-master

# Update from upstream and reinstall (pull-master + fetch-external-skills + fetch-external-rules + install-all)
make update

# Clone the private dotfiles repository
make clone-private

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 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.

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Subscribe to this mod's changes

dotfiles CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository surajssd/dotfiles (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 7,578 tokens to every session, about $0.0303 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 2026-08-31.

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