DashClaw: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

DashClaw CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ucsandman/DashClaw. It costs 3,834 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for DashClaw, an AI-agent governance runtime that records decisions and enforces policies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running the development server, linting, type-checking, testing, building the application, and applying database migrations.
Why use it?
They list the project's required commands and verification rules so changes are checked for lint errors, type errors, test failures, and build problems.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: UserPromptSubmit hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Opus 5.5 $0.01534 $0.01534
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00767 $0.00767
Haiku 4.5 $0.00383 $0.00383

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ecddb86e3eac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

DashClaw 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 · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DashClaw (v2 Governance Runtime)

DashClaw is AI agent decision infrastructure: a focused control plane for policy enforcement, decision recording, assumption tracking, and risk signals.

Commands

npm run dev          # local dev server (port 3000)
npm run lint         # eslint
npm run typecheck    # tsc --noEmit — required for any changed .ts file, even outside app/
npm test             # vitest; one file: npm test -- <file> (full suite before push: npx vitest run)
npm run build        # next build — required for any change under app/**
npm run db:migrate   # apply pending schema to local DB (auto-loads .env.local; idempotent)

All other scripts stay in package.json; add one here only when the agent keeps needing it.

Verify before you commit

CLAUDE.md is advisory; CI is not. A push is its own step - run these and READ the output first:

  • npm run lint
  • npx vitest run - the full suite (targeted runs miss regressions in unrelated files). Tests run on node by default; only .jsx/.tsx tests and the files listed in DOM_TESTS in vitest.config.js get jsdom (that split took the suite from 511s to 161s). A new test that needs window/document goes in that list or carries // @vitest-environment jsdom; the tell is document is not defined.
  • npx next build - required for any change under app/**
  • For any changed .ts file (even outside app/), run npm run typecheck before pushing - vitest transpiles without type-checking and will pass; the build runs tsc and will not.
  • Entry-path drills (v8.3, scripts/drills/README.md): a release touching cli/**, scripts/setup.mjs, or the up path runs npm run drill:fresh-windows (and/or drill:fresh-linux) first; one touching hosted mint/export/import runs npm run drill:hosted. A drill failure is a broken ship - fix on the spot, log it in the maintainer log. These test the DISTRIBUTION path on factory-fresh machines; CI's up-smoke.yml (from-source, dev-imaged runners) does not cover that class.

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 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.

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  2. 1mo ago Changed · +308 tokens per session 1793cff5e1ac
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 172 lines · 3,516 tokens per session scan A 311e31f6c1d6

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DashClaw CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ucsandman/DashClaw (313 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 3,834 tokens to every session, about $0.0153 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 2026-08-30.

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