Tamandua: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Tamandua CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from tugraskan/Tamandua. It costs 711 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Tamandua, a tool that creates a facts-only index of SWAT+ Fortran source code. SWAT+ is a scientific water-and-land simulation model; the index records procedures, calls, file input and output, assignments, loops, and data types without model-generated facts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Understanding and changing the Tamandua project, building its SWAT+ source index, and working with its read-only MCP server and run-output reader.
Why use it?
They give a coding agent the project context and tell it where to find current status, conventions, and setup information before working on the code.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.00711 $0.00711
Opus 5 $0.00356 $0.00356
Sonnet 5 $0.00142 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00071 $0.00071

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2c9751dd780b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Tamandua 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 8d 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 · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tamandua

Read docs/status.md before anything else — it is the one-page map of what is current, what is measured, and what is open.

What this is

A facts-only index of SWAT+ Fortran source -- procedures with locations, the call graph, file I/O with unit numbers, variable assignments by field path, loop headers with their index variables, derived types with the units and meaning the source documents inline. Everything is static analysis; nothing is written by a model.

Two deliveries over one implementation:

  • tamandua/mcp/server.py -- 14 read-only tools
  • tamandua/index/ -- writes SWATPLUS_INDEX.md into a checkout, plus a pointer in each assistant's instruction file

tamandua/output/reader.py answers the one thing no index can: what a run's numbers actually did.

Building needs the parser in swatplus-reference-corpus; serving does not. swatplus-build writes swatplus-facts.json, which the server answers from with neither the parser nor a SWAT+ checkout present (docs/decisions.md D-8).

Working here

export SWATPLUS_SOURCE=/path/to/swatplus
export SWATPLUS_REFERENCE_CORPUS=/path/to/swatplus-reference-corpus  # the parser
pip install -e ".[dev]"
python -m pytest -q          # 151 pass, 9 skipped (128/32 without the parser)

swatplus-build from inside a SWAT+ checkout writes the facts file and nothing else; --markdown adds the greppable rendering and the instruction pointers, for a tool that cannot run a server. A running server checks an explicit source tree or --facts file before every request and refreshes only after it changes. The package-bundled release snapshot remains static.

Conventions

  • Facts only. If a model wrote it, it does not go in the index. Only swatplus-reference-corpus's schema scanner is used; its 1,095 generated prose pages are deliberately unused. The same rule retired its predecessor's overlays, where an audit found ~1 in 5 AI-generated equation mappings pointed at the wrong routine.
  • Every claim carries its evidence. A row without a file and line is not worth shipping.
  • Measure before concluding. Findings live in docs/*_experiment.md, each with the script that produced them and its caveats. Where a later measurement overturned an earlier conclusion, the earlier write-up goes -- docs/status.md records what survived.
  • Eight defects in this work were found by ordinary use and none by any harness. Prefer running the thing over reasoning about it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 8d ago First seen · 66 lines · 711 tokens per session scan A 2c9751dd780b

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Tamandua CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tugraskan/Tamandua (0 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 711 tokens to every session, about $0.0036 per session on Opus 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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