chronos CLAUDE.md

chronos CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from sx4im/chronos. It costs 1,450 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Chronos, a Node.js and TypeScript framework that runs repeatable simulations of concurrent and distributed systems. Deterministic simulation testing means using controlled time, randomness, and networking so the same test seed reproduces the same behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or changing Chronos code, especially code involving virtual clocks, seeded random values, simulated networking, and scheduled events.
Why use it?
It keeps simulated behavior reproducible, making rare timing bugs and race conditions easier to investigate without depending on real-time or random system behavior.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sx4im/chronos

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Security

Grade A, and why

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Nothing flagged

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CLAUDE.md · 69 lines

How it starts

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CLAUDE.md — Chronos

This file is read by Claude Code on every session. It is the project's working memory. Keep it accurate as the project evolves.

What this project is

Chronos is a Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) framework for Node.js / TypeScript. It runs concurrent/distributed systems on a single controlled thread with virtualized time, seeded randomness, and a simulated network, so any bug — including rare races — reproduces exactly from a single integer seed. It's the FoundationDB/TigerBeetle technique, does not yet exist for JS/TS. (See docs/architecture.md and docs/technical-spec.md.)

THE PRIME DIRECTIVE (never violate)

Determinism is the product. The entire system has exactly one source of entropy (the seeded PRNG) and exactly one source of time (the virtual clock). In any code that runs inside a simulation, you must never use:

  • Date.now(), new Date(), performance.now(), process.hrtime() → use clock.now() / env.now().
  • Math.random() / crypto randomness → use the simulator's Rng / env.random().
  • real setTimeout / setInterval / setImmediate for user timing → use the scheduler / env.sleep / env.setTimeout. (The only allowed real primitive is a single setImmediate used as the microtask-drain barrier in scheduler.ts.)
  • real sockets / fs / network → use the simulated network (env.net).

If the determinism guard test (packages/core/test/determinism.test.ts) ever fails or flakes, stop all other work and fix it first. It is bug class #1.

The core mental model (why DST works here)

V8's execution is already deterministic given identical inputs. Nondeterminism enters Node only through external entropy: wall clock, OS scheduling, network/disk completion order, and Math.random. Chronos removes all external entropy and serializes concurrency onto one thread, so the program replays identically. We do NOT reFibers — we let V8's deterministic microtask draining happen between scheduler steps (via the single setImmediate barrier). Read docs/architecture.md §2.3 before changing scheduler/async code.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Changes

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chronos CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sx4im/chronos (19 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,450 tokens to every session, about $0.0072 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 2026-08-30.

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