librarian-cli: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

librarian-cli CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Terobyte/librarian-cli. It costs 1,724 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for working on librarian-cli, a local tool that turns books into clean Markdown chapters.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or reviewing librarian-cli, running its tests, processing books, or checking that its repeatable “golden” outputs remain unchanged.
Why use it?
It gives contributors the project layout, commands, design rules, and testing expectations needed to change the code safely.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is Terobyte/librarian-cli's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on librarian-cli 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 librarian-cli configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Terobyte/librarian-cli. 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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git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Terobyte/librarian-cli

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CLAUDE.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — libby / librarian

librarian — детерминированный конвейер «книга → Markdown-главы» для работы с LLM. Любой формат (FB2, EPUB, DOCX, HTML, TXT/MD, PDF с текстовым слоем) → каталог чистых глав с подсчётом токенов. Без сети, без LLM, без случайности: одинаковый вход → побайтово идентичный выход.

Раскладка

  • Git-корень — этот каталог (libby/), он же корень пакета: с M7 librarian/{pyproject.toml, src,tests,scripts,uv.lock} сплющены прямо сюда (репо на GitHub — librarian-cli), все команды запускать отсюда, без cd.
  • README.md — англ. пользовательская дока (канон, её видит PyPI: команды, установка, квота качества, лимиты). README.ru.md — русская версия того же.
  • docs/MILESTONES.md — история вех M1–M7 и сквозной список отклонений от спеки (почему код расходится с дизайном). Читать перед правкой спорного места.
  • librarian-spec-v2.2.md — канон дизайна (спека). docs/superpowers/ — дизайн-доки/планы.

Команды

uv run pytest -q                      # весь набор (~330 тестов, ~19с)
uv run pytest tests/test_golden.py    # только golden (детерминизм выхода)
uv run lib ingest книга.epub          # обработать в ./library
uv run lib find маятник               # FTS5-поиск; --json для машинного вывода
uv run lib serve                      # MCP-сервер (stdio); mcp — основная зависимость
uv build                              # wheel; офлайн-установка не требует сети

Корень библиотеки: --library <путь> / LIB_HOME / по умолчанию ./library. Данные → stdout, диагностика → stderr. Exit: 0 успех, 1 ошибка выполнения, 2 ошибка использования.

Критический инвариант: golden не трогать

Выход детерминирован побайтово. tests/golden/ — эталон. Любая правка, меняющая выходные байты, валит test_golden.py. Это не «обнови golden» — это осознанное решение:

  • Меняешь выходные байты намеренно → подними PIPELINE_VERSION (src/librarian/__init__.py) и регенерируй golden явно. Иначе — дефект: чини код, а не эталон.
  • .search.db и .lock — производные, вне контракта (исключены из tree_bytes в conftest).
  • PDF-фикстуры недетерминированы при генерации (pymupdf пишет случайный /ID) — коммитятся байтами один раз; scripts/make_fixtures.py перезаписывает только с регенерацией golden.
  • Сеть в тестах заблокирована (pytest-socket); stdio/unix-socket разрешены (для MCP-смоука).

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librarian-cli CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Terobyte/librarian-cli (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,724 tokens to every session, about $0.0069 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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