helmdeck: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

helmdeck CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from tosin2013/helmdeck. It costs 363 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of project instructions for Helmdeck, a software project that may also contain a research project. It guides coding work and asks contributors to record useful engineering findings as blog drafts or research updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing Helmdeck, consulting its integration guidance, or deciding whether a development result deserves a blog post or research update.
Why use it?
It helps contributors follow the repository’s own workflow and preserve lessons learned during development. This avoids losing useful findings or treating research documentation as an afterthought.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is tosin2013/helmdeck's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on helmdeck 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 helmdeck configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tosin2013/helmdeck. 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/tosin2013/helmdeck/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tosin2013/helmdeck

Made for: Claude Code.

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Opus 5.5 $0.00145 $0.00145
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00073 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00036 $0.00036

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 224027198cfe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

helmdeck 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 1mo 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 · 21 lines

What it actually says

Helmdeck

Read docs/integrations/SKILLS.md for helmdeck-specific instructions when using tools. Read docs/integrations/pack-demo-playbook.md for example prompts and expected outputs.

When development surfaces something noteworthy, draft a blog post

If your work in this repo turns up something the broader engineering audience would learn from — a quantified cost result, an unexpected interaction between two subsystems, an architectural insight, or a friction story with a clean fix — propose a blog draft alongside the implementation using website/blog/_template.md.

Don't gate on whether it ships. Drafts with draft: true cost nothing to land and zero to discard, but they capture the finding while it's fresh. The blog's value compounds with cadence; treat draft posts as a normal output of development work, not a separate marketing track.

See CONTRIBUTING.md §"Other contribution types" for the workflow.

If the post is research-flavored, also update /research

Helmdeck is, in practice, a research project that ships as software. The pattern is real: hard implementation work — the kind that takes time and money to push through — is what produces the findings worth publishing. Don't lose them.

If the blog post you're drafting is research-flavored (the finding generalizes beyond the immediate fix — a new empirical pattern, an architectural insight, a quantified cost or capability result), add an entry to website/src/pages/research.md in the same change. One-line summary + link to the post / ADR / production change that landed it.

The /research page is the durable, citeable surface that turns "trust me, we're doing research" into "click any entry." It's load-bearing for grant applications and external citations — keep it current.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 1mo ago First seen · 21 lines · 363 tokens per session scan A 224027198cfe

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helmdeck CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tosin2013/helmdeck (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 363 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 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.

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