cc-reaper: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

cc-reaper CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from theQuert/cc-reaper. It costs 2,910 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project instruction file for cc-reaper, a shell utility that cleans up leftover Claude Code processes such as subagents, MCP servers, and plugins. It describes the project layout, cleanup layers, and installation commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or maintaining cc-reaper, including its stop hook, cleanup shell functions, process-janitor daemon, monitoring script, and installation flow.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents the project context needed to modify the cleanup utility safely. The utility addresses processes that remain after sessions end and consume memory.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is theQuert/cc-reaper's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on cc-reaper 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 cc-reaper configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to theQuert/cc-reaper. 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/theQuert/cc-reaper/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/theQuert/cc-reaper

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.02910 $0.02910
Opus 5 $0.01455 $0.01455
Sonnet 5 $0.00582 $0.00582
Haiku 4.5 $0.00291 $0.00291

Measured 7d ago against content hash 393daa071898, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cc-reaper 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 7d 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 · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 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.

Project Overview

cc-reaper is a shell-based utility that cleans up orphan Claude Code processes (subagents, MCP servers, plugins) that leak memory after sessions end. It uses a three-layer defense: Stop hook (immediate), proc-janitor daemon (continuous), and manual shell commands (on-demand).

Repository Structure

  • install.sh — Automated 4-stage installer (shell functions → stop hook → proc-janitor → daemon startup)
  • hooks/stop-cleanup-orphans.sh — Claude Code Stop hook; kills orphans using orphan-parent filtering (only truly orphaned processes — reparented to PID 1, or on Linux to the user's systemd --user manager)
  • shell/claude-cleanup.sh — Shell functions: claude-cleanup (kill orphans), claude-ram (RAM report), claude-fd (FD usage report), claude-sessions (session list), claude-guard (auto-reaper with RSS/FD threshold + idle detection)
  • shell/cc-monitor.sh — Read-only heat attribution monitor (cc-monitor, cc-monitor --apply)
  • proc-janitor/config.toml — Daemon config with target patterns, whitelist, and grace period settings
  • launchd/ — macOS LaunchAgent scripts for zero-dependency background monitoring
  • tests/ — Lightweight bash validation scripts (mocked ps/kill for isolated testing)

Development Notes

No build system or linter. This is a pure shell script project. Changes are validated with shell syntax checks (bash -n) and lightweight validation scripts under tests/.

Process detection patterns use grep bracket expressions (e.g., [c]laude instead of claude) to prevent grep from matching its own process. The stop hook uses orphan-parent filtering (not TTY filtering) to identify true orphans — processes whose session exited and were reparented. The orphan-parent set is PID 1 on macOS (launchd) and, on Linux, PID 1 plus the invoking user's systemd --user manager (the per-user reparent target — Linux orphans land there, not on PID 1). Only the current user's manager counts, matched by UID. This works correctly across macOS, Linux, containers, and SSH sessions. The manual claude-cleanup function is intentionally more aggressive (three-phase: PGID-based group kill → pattern fallback for detached processes → orphan-parent sweep).

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 7d ago First seen · 129 lines · 2,910 tokens per session scan A 393daa071898

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cc-reaper CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository theQuert/cc-reaper (17 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,910 tokens to every session, about $0.0145 per session on Opus 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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