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CLAUDE.md

structured-context-spec CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from tim-mccrimmon/structured-context-spec. It costs 2,486 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for the Structured Context Specification, an open standard for organizing, versioning, and delivering context to AI agents. The repository contains the specification itself, not the separate commercial runtime product.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps develop and maintain the specification documents, including its models, bundles, tiers, relationships, and format rules.
Why use it?
It explains the project's purpose, terminology, current version, and repository layout to a coding agent. This gives the agent the context needed to work on the specification correctly.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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CLAUDE.md · 211 lines

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CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Structured Context Specification (SCS) — Project Context

What This Project Is

The open-source SCS specification — a community-governed standard for structuring, versioning, and delivering context to AI agents.

This is the spec repo, not the product. SCS defines the format (SCDs, bundles, tiers, relationships). SCP (Supervisory Control Plane) is the commercial runtime product built on top of SCS — it lives in a separate private repo.

Current spec version: 0.6.0 (draft, branch 0.6-dev) License: Apache 2.0 Website: https://structuredcontext.dev Registry/product: SCP (separate repo: SCP-2)


Repository Structure

structured-context-spec/
├── spec/0.6/               # The specification documents (source of truth)
│   ├── overview.md         # Top-level spec overview
│   ├── core-model.md       # SCDs, bundles, tiers
│   ├── bundle-format.md    # Bundle manifest format
│   ├── citations.md        # std: standard citations
│   ├── runtime-artifact.md # Compiled runtime artifact format
│   ├── meta-tier.md        # Meta tier specification
│   ├── standards-tier.md   # Deprecated in 0.6.0 (replaced by citations)
│   ├── project-tier.md     # Project tier specification
│   ├── terminology.md      # Canonical definitions
│   └── governance-and-compliance.md
├── rfcs/                   # Requests for Comments (spec changes)
│   ├── README.md           # RFC process guide
│   └── 0000-template.md    # Template for new RFCs
├── meta/                   # The published meta bundle (bundle:meta:0.6.0), read-only
├── schema/                 # JSON Schema validation files
├── templates/              # Starter templates
│   ├── bundles/            # Bundle manifest templates
│   └── scd/                # SCD templates by tier
├── examples/               # Reference implementations
├── plugins/                # Editor/tool integrations
│   ├── scs-vibe/           # Cursor/Windsurf plugin
│   └── scs-team/           # Claude Code multi-agent plugin
├── tools/                  # CLI and validator tools
│   ├── cli/                # scs CLI
│   └── scd-validator/      # YAML structure validator
├── dog-food/               # SCS documenting itself with SCS
│   └── SCS-MED-CONTEXT/    # Bundles + SCDs for SCS's own context
├── context/                # Additional spec context documents
├── docs/                   # Non-spec documentation
└── CONTRIBUTING.md         # Contribution guide

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