backchannel CLAUDE.md

backchannel CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from talberthoule/backchannel. It costs 6,410 tokens per session, scanned B, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Claude Code that explain how to work on the Backchannel meeting-analysis app and record coordination decisions. They cover the codebase, build commands, worktrees, and Sentrux, a tool for checking project structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when maintaining Backchannel, running its frontend or backend checks, creating worktrees, troubleshooting builds, or checking whether the project structure still matches its approved design.
Why use it?
They give coding agents shared project context and a consistent way to record decisions, blockers, and changes. This reduces guesswork and prevents agents from losing track of each other’s work.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/talberthoule/backchannel/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/talberthoule/backchannel

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README.md
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Per session 6,410 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 6,410 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.06410 $0.06410
Opus 5 $0.03205 $0.03205
Sonnet 5 $0.01282 $0.01282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00641 $0.00641

Measured today against content hash 0e7ba186edff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

backchannel CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 today.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Sentrux is installed at `C:/Users/thoule/.local/bin/sentrux.exe` and configured as a Codex MCP server in `C:/Users/thoule/.codex/config.toml`.
CLAUDE.md · 337 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 337 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 this repository.

Coordination Record

The durable record for this repository is Linear: team Alpha, project Backchannel, issue IDs ALP-NNN. Findings, verdicts, decisions and their rationale, blockers, and declined alternatives go there; Herdr agent send carries only the issue ID and one line of what changed. Because the Linear MCP server writes with a single shared credential, every agent's issue and comment is authored by the human who owns the token, so record Requested by / Performed by / Date / Scope in the body. Branches are agent/alp-NNN-slug; design docs live in docs/superpowers/specs/ and plans in docs/superpowers/plans/. See the Routing Substance and Pointers section of the coordinating-herdr-agents skill.

Git worktrees live outside this checkout, at C:/work/backchannel/<lane>: git worktree add C:/work/backchannel/<lane> -b agent/alp-NNN-slug master. This repository sits in a OneDrive-synced folder, and sync repeatedly stripped the .git file out of worktrees created under .worktrees/, orphaning them from git worktree list while leaving the directories behind (ALP-139). Do not recreate .worktrees/ here. Note also that the Docker Compose stack binds the main checkout, so a worktree suits docs, review, and analysis rather than work needing integration testing.

Current Codebase Snapshot

Backchannel (formerly Call Helper) is a real-time meeting analysis app. A React frontend captures microphone audio (and optionally tab/system audio) as PCM16 16 kHz mono and streams it over WebSocket with a 1-byte track prefix. The FastAPI backend writes speaker-attributed transcript entries, records per-segment call audio to disk, runs provider-routed analysis agents (Gemini or OpenAI) over recent transcript text, and stores insights in PostgreSQL.

Backend tests live in backend/tests/ as stdlib unittest files; run them from backend/ with python -m unittest discover -s tests. Frontend behavior checks are npm run build (typecheck).

Read the full file on GitHub · 337 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. today Changed · -8 lines · -147 tokens per session 0e7ba186edff
  2. yesterday Changed · +13 lines · +758 tokens per session 8b06fc5c6cad
  3. 5d ago First seen · 332 lines · 5,799 tokens per session scan B b2479a7f8d96

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backchannel CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository talberthoule/backchannel (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 6,410 tokens to every session, about $0.0321 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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