duet: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

duet CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from tslateman/duet. It costs 1,174 tokens per session, scanned B, original, MIT.

A set of Claude Code instructions, commands, and skills for reflection, code quality, writing, design, debugging, and project documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture learnings, audit memory files, debug changes, create architecture decision records, design systems, and make diagrams.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent repeatable ways to inspect work, record decisions, find problems, and keep project guidance organized.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01174 $0.01174
Opus 5.5 $0.00470 $0.00470
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00235 $0.00235
Haiku 4.5 $0.00117 $0.00117

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d953d3884873, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

duet 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 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.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

- `allowed-tools`: Optional. Omit to allow all tools
CLAUDE.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Duet

Claude Code plugin for reflection, code quality, writing, and design. Markdown only, no build system.

Lint

markdownlint commands/**/*.md skills/**/SKILL.md

Project Structure

commands/
  capture-memory.md    Capture learnings to MEMORY.md
  lint.md              Run markdownlint on files
  memory-audit.md      Audit project memory files for staleness
  ponder.md            Surface a question worth sitting with
  probe.md             Probe recent changes with pointed questions
skills/
  FRAMEWORKS.md        Framework-to-skill index
  adr/                 Architecture Decision Records (Nygard)
  automagic-problem-discovery/   Friction audit that ends in a built tool (5 Whys)
  caveman/                       Ultra-compressed output mode (~75% token reduction)
  debrief/                       Review agent work, surface loose ends
  debugging/                     Systematic debugging (Agans)
  design/                        Intentional design (visual, API, system)
  excalidraw/                    Programmatic Excalidraw diagrams
  grill-with-docs/               Interview-driven design with CONTEXT.md/ADR upkeep
  ia/                            Information architecture (Rosenfeld + Diataxis + LATCH + Brown)
  improve-codebase-architecture/ Find deepening opportunities (Ousterhout + Feathers)
  lexicon/                       Controlled vocabulary across surfaces (Z39.19 + Evans)
  mermaid/                       Mermaid.js diagrams for GitHub markdown
  naming/                        Naming as design diagnostic (Benner + Bloch)
  performance/                   Profiling and optimization (Knuth)
  prose/                         Strunk's Elements of Style for all writing
  research/                      Systematic technical investigation
  retro/                         Session retrospective
  review/                        Structured code review with context capture
  sweep/                         Post-op audit for artifacts, damage, stale refs
  testing/                       Test strategy (Beck's Test Desiderata)
  vamp/                          Survey the project, choose what to play next
  vibe-check/                    Judgment linter for vibe-coded output
  visual-recap/                  Structured visual recap of a diff (BuilderIO)
  wayfinding/                    Cold-entry orientation audit (Lynch + Pirolli & Card)
  writing-great-skills/          Reference for writing skills well (mattpocock)
  zoom-out/                      Map callers and neighbors before reading details
agents/
  code-simplifier.md   Refine code for clarity and maintainability
statusline/
  statusline-command.sh  Lean status bar (dir, git, model, context, vim)
scripts/
  generate-readme.sh   Auto-generate README tables from source
evals/
  evals.json           Master eval registry (generated from the scenario tree)
  run.sh               Eval runner (with/without skill + grader)
  <skill>/<scenario>/  43 scenarios covering 14 of the 25 skills; vibe-check has 4, the rest 3 each

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +41 tokens per session d953d3884873
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 122 lines · 1,133 tokens per session scan B 2ca393349fcf

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duet CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tslateman/duet (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,174 tokens to every session, about $0.0047 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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