Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to techtheist/engram. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/techtheist/engram/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/techtheist/engramWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/techtheist/engram/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/techtheist/engram/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/techtheist/engram/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/techtheist/engram/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/techtheist/engram/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.03115 | $0.03115 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01246 | $0.01246 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00623 | $0.00623 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00312 | $0.00312 |
Grade A, and why
engram 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 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Engram — context for Claude Code
What this is: a graph-based, durable, inspectable long-term project memory for AI coding assistants (Claude Code first). Local-first, user-owned, graph-first UI. The reasoning/decision memory layer (why/decided/what-bit-us) — not a code-structure graph; the wedge is the editable IDE-embedded graph pane + conflict surfacing + local. The line since 0.8.0: the most powerful and feature-rich inspectable graph long-term memory for software development with AI agents, based on reproducible research.
THE GRAPH IS THE MEMORY OF RECORD — this file is only rules and a keyword index. The session brief is auto-injected and opens with the Current cycle (open work stamped with the working version); search engram before any non-trivial work and follow the write-verdict protocol. Details, rationale, gotchas, and the full history live in this repo's graph (.engram/graph.tepin, daemon on 8787) and the eval workbench graph (eval/.engram, project eval, scientific ontology Claim/Method/Question/Finding/Source/Task). PLAN.md was retired 2026-08-04 (merged here); PLAN §… references in code comments point at git history.
Hard rules (locked — don't relitigate without reason)
- Open-source, MIT; optimize for docs & DX. Product name "Engram Alpha", binary
engram-alpha(repo/plugin namespaces stayengram; JetBrains packagedev.techtheist.engram— don't rename). - Rust backend (rmcp, rusqlite bundled, sqlite-vec, fastembed, tepindb) — no Node runtime dep. Vue 3.5 + TS + Vite + Bun, Pinia, Tailwind 4, Vue Flow;
bun run lint/lint:styleinfrontend/. - Embeddings/models local-only; no LLM in the daemon, ever (encoder-only mechanisms); models nominate, people judge.
- Retrieval changes cite a measured
eval/run or they don't ship (since 0.8.0). - 9 node types (8 + Tombstone since 0.9.0) / 7 sentence-shaped verbs on the default ontology; no new types, no
relates_to; durability governs staleness; high-value edges arereplaces/conflicts-with. Per-graph ontology/policy config exists since 0.7.0, but THIS repo's graph stays on the default ontology permanently. - Hard delete is user-only (pane); MCP deliberately has no delete/register/pin tools. Writes are silent; transparency is the pane. One workspace version for every crate, stamped from the tag;
claude-plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.jsonmust match (test-enforced). - Multi-user & repo sync: out of scope permanently (future enterprise product). Dogfood on the aggressive skill variant (relaxed is the user default). Eval ladder max 1500 notes.
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.
- today Changed · +16 tokens per session 283c34e06916
- yesterday Changed · +1 lines · +255 tokens per session 2fbfa9d05c5e
- 2d ago Changed · +1 lines · +122 tokens per session 77cb7b7ca28c
- 3d ago Changed · +1 lines · +125 tokens per session 88f3ff989f12
- 7d ago Changed · +1 lines · +140 tokens per session a520ce062efc
- 14d ago Changed · +64 tokens per session 10ad6d26684e
- 15d ago Changed · +1 lines · +58 tokens per session 17d0fd37dc8f
- 19d ago Changed · +1 lines · +145 tokens per session 92500c768cd6
- 23d ago Changed · -15 lines · -12,680 tokens per session 49580f940b2b
- 29d ago First seen · 60 lines · 14,870 tokens per session scan A b379a414255e
engram CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository techtheist/engram (32 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 3,115 tokens to every session, about $0.0125 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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