claude-code-mastery CLAUDE.md

claude-code-mastery CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from TheDecipherist/claude-code-mastery. It costs 676 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Documentation and templates for configuring Claude Code projects, including project guidance files, security hooks, settings, and reusable skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating Claude Code guidance, installing example project templates, configuring security checks, and learning how hooks and skills fit into a repository.
Why use it?
They explain how project instructions, hooks, and skills differ, helping developers choose the right configuration for a coding agent.

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/thedecipherist/claude-code-mastery/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheDecipherist/claude-code-mastery

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Per session 676 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 676 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 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 $0.00676 $0.00676
Opus 5 $0.00338 $0.00338
Sonnet 5 $0.00135 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00068 $0.00068

Measured 4d ago against content hash 56d40b52df13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

claude-code-mastery CLAUDE.md scanned grade C 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 4d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

│ ├── block-dangerous-commands.sh # PreToolUse: blocks rm -rf, etc.
CLAUDE.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 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 code in this repository.

Overview

This is a documentation and template repository for Claude Code best practices. It contains:

  • Educational guide (GUIDE.md) explaining Claude Code configuration
  • Ready-to-use templates for CLAUDE.md files, settings.json, and .gitignore
  • Example hooks (Python/Bash) for deterministic security enforcement
  • Example skills for reusable AI expertise

This is NOT a code project — there is no build system, no tests, no runtime application.

Repository Structure

├── GUIDE.md                  # Main educational content (~900 lines)
├── templates/                # Copy-and-use templates
│   ├── global-claude.md      # Template for ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md
│   ├── project-claude.md     # Template for ./CLAUDE.md in any project
│   ├── settings.json         # Hook configuration template
│   └── .gitignore            # Recommended ignore patterns
├── hooks/                    # Security enforcement scripts
│   ├── block-secrets.py      # PreToolUse: blocks .env/credentials access
│   ├── block-dangerous-commands.sh  # PreToolUse: blocks rm -rf, etc.
│   ├── after-edit.sh         # PostToolUse: run formatters
│   ├── end-of-turn.sh        # Stop: quality gates
│   └── notify.sh             # Desktop notifications
└── skills/                   # Packaged AI expertise
    ├── commit-messages/      # Conventional commit generation
    └── security-audit/       # Vulnerability scanning checklist

Key Concepts

Hooks vs CLAUDE.md

CLAUDE.md rules are suggestions that Claude can override under context pressure. Hooks are deterministic enforcement — they always execute.

  • block-secrets.py: Exit code 2 blocks Read/Edit/Write operations on sensitive files
  • block-dangerous-commands.sh: Exit code 2 blocks dangerous Bash patterns

Hook Exit Codes

Code Behavior
0 Allow operation
1 Error (shown to user only)
2 Block operation, stderr fed back to Claude

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 4d ago First seen · 65 lines · 676 tokens per session scan C 56d40b52df13

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claude-code-mastery CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TheDecipherist/claude-code-mastery (545 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 676 tokens to every session, about $0.0034 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.