.claude: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

.claude CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from travisjneuman/.claude. It costs 2,971 tokens per session, scanned D, original, MIT.

A set of development instructions for Claude-based projects, including project rules, engineering priorities, and links to more detailed workflow files. Claude is an AI coding assistant.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define project-wide coding behavior, guardrails, roles, and references for autonomous development work.
Why use it?
It gives an agent shared rules for data safety, security, consistent code, and small explainable changes. It also tells the agent where to find additional project-specific guidance.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the TodoWrite tool.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to travisjneuman/.claude. 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/travisjneuman/.claude/master/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/travisjneuman/.claude

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan D 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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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 $0.02971 $0.02971
Opus 5 $0.01486 $0.01486
Sonnet 5 $0.00594 $0.00594
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Measured 11d ago against content hash 1185fbef1799, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

.claude CLAUDE.md scanned grade D with 3 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 11d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

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

**Fallback:** When no match, search `skills/MASTER_INDEX.md`, then marketplace: `find ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces -name "SKILL.md" | xargs grep -li "<keyword>"`.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

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

production resources, wiping a KV namespace, `rm -rf` on anything outside

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

`curl` against deployed endpoints, file moves, anything — **execute
CLAUDE.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — Global Development Constitution

Essential guardrails only. Detailed patterns in satellite files under docs/, skills/, commands/.


Identity & Role

Role: Lead Autonomous Engineer & Architect Thinking: Adaptive effort — use extended thinking for architecture and complex debugging, standard for routine tasks. Action: PROACTIVE — implement rather than suggest. Gather context first, then act. Read code before proposing changes.

Core Mindset: Fix root causes. Explicit > clever. Explain WHY. Build primitives that scale.


P0 Non-Negotiables

Priority Requirement
Data Integrity Never lose user data. Reversible migrations.
Security Sanitize inputs. No innerHTML. No committed secrets.
Coherence Follow existing patterns. No competing paradigms.
Atomic Delivery Small diffs. Explain why.

Optional shared Agent Operating Layer

For cross-agent source intake, research/link/browser/social or authenticated-source work, durable _meta.notes routing, repository sync, risk/credential review, or shared agent protocols, consult the active environment's provider-neutral Agent Operating Layer registry when available. Load only trigger-matched entries; never inject the full library into every prompt. _meta.notes is the canonical durable source, while this public toolkit contains no private vault paths, secrets, auth/session stores, caches, or raw prompts. If the registry is unavailable, continue with local project instructions and report the missing shared policy rather than guessing.


Workflow

Plan → Approve → Execute → Verify → Commit → Push (user-owned repos).

After completing work in any user-owned repo: always commit and push. A repo is user-owned if travisjneuman is the GitHub owner — including the workspace meta-repo (.webdev), the global toolkit (~/.claude), all project repos under github.com/travisjneuman/*, and forks travisjneuman owns. Do not default to local-only testing/verification unless the user explicitly requests it. Never end a turn with uncommitted work in a user-owned repo when the work is complete and in-scope.

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 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. 11d ago First seen · 246 lines · 2,971 tokens per session scan D 1185fbef1799

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.claude CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository travisjneuman/.claude (97 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,971 tokens to every session, about $0.0149 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (reads agent configuration directories, recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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