ai: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ai CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from tomcounsell/ai. It costs 3,351 tokens per session, scanned B, original, GPL-3.0.

A repository instruction file for Claude Code that defines project rules, manual testing practices, and development workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document development principles, configuration rules, and testing expectations.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent consistent guidance about how work should be done in that repository.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is tomcounsell/ai's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ai 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 ai configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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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 $0.03351 $0.03351
Opus 5 $0.01675 $0.01675
Sonnet 5 $0.00670 $0.00670
Haiku 4.5 $0.00335 $0.00335

Measured today against content hash 38ec9f300bcb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ai CLAUDE.md scanned grade B 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 today.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- Hook registration in `.claude/settings.json` and `~/.claude/settings.json` is generated from `.claude/hooks/manifest.toml`; never hand-edit either `hooks` block. See [`docs/features/hook-manifest.md`](docs/features/hoo
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Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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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. today Changed · -38 lines · -1,671 tokens per session 38ec9f300bcb
  2. 3d ago Changed · +36 tokens per session 9810d9f453bb
  3. 4d ago First seen · 185 lines · 4,986 tokens per session scan B 43ba8e131cc3

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ai CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tomcounsell/ai (24 stars, last pushed today), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 3,351 tokens to every session, about $0.0168 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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