What is things-mcp CLAUDE.md?

A set of Claude Code instructions for maintaining SIDECAR.md as a live review and task queue for a human collaborator. The file separates items needing action, in progress, parked, done, and shipped.

It guides updates to the SIDECAR.md review queue, including short entries and separately displayed URLs.

It keeps human follow-up work visible and organized while an agent makes changes.

How than/things-mcp configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to than/things-mcp. 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/than/things-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/than/things-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/than/things-mcp/claude-md/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/than/things-mcp/claude-md)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/than/things-mcp/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/than/things-mcp/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/than/things-mcp/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/than/things-mcp/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 177 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 177 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	$0.00177	$0.00177
Opus 5.5	$0.00071	$0.00071
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00035	$0.00035
Haiku 4.5	$0.00018	$0.00018

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0fcb847155c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

things-mcp 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 2mo 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 · 16 lines

What it actually says

Review queue (sidecar)

Maintain SIDECAR.md as a live review / TODO queue for the human. Sections: ## 🧠 Needs action — surfaced for the human to act on ## 🚧 In progress — actively being worked ## 🚘 Parked — deferred, not dropped ## ✅ Done — merged, not yet released ## 📦 Shipped — released Put bare URLs on their own line (keeps them clickable); keep entries short.

The human watches it live with sidecar SIDECAR.md. If sidecar isn't installed: go install github.com/than/sidecar@latest, or a prebuilt binary from https://github.com/than/sidecar/releases/latest

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.

2mo ago First seen · 16 lines · 177 tokens per session scan A 0fcb847155c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

things-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository than/things-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 177 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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.

Project management

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things-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code