What is tablo CLAUDE.md?

A build guide for Tablo, a small animated cat that watches Claude Code agents. It describes the avatar, its activity animations, and a panel showing context-window usage.

Use it when implementing Tablo's always-on-top cat, live agent activity states, session context meters, and the warning shown when context use exceeds 60%.

It gives developers a shared plan for how the app should behave and what the first release should include.

How unravel-team/tablo configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to unravel-team/tablo. 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/unravel-team/tablo/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/unravel-team/tablo

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 6,137 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 6,137 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.06137	$0.06137
Opus 5.5	$0.02455	$0.02455
Sonnet 5.5	$0.01227	$0.01227
Haiku 4.5	$0.00614	$0.00614

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 40f397cbebdc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

tablo CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 2 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 2mo 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.

summarizer, the generated hook script, and the `~/.claude/settings.json`

Makes network callslowCapability

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

(generated by Tablo) `curl`s the tool call to Tablo's loopback server and blocks

CLAUDE.md · 369 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 369 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tablo — Implementation Plan

Tablo is a small floating animated cat that watches your Claude Code agents. It lives unobtrusively on screen and reflects activity through animation: when agents are running, Tablo runs and shows the agent count; when a session's context window enters the danger zone (>60%), Tablo becomes alarmed. Tapping Tablo opens a panel with the live context-window meter. This avatar-plus-panel model replaces an always-on-top window, which would take up too much screen space.

This document is the build plan for Claude Code to follow. Phase 1 ships Tablo (the avatar) and the context meter only; later phases add permissions, plan usage, and a dashboard.

Project overview

Goal (Phase 1): A tiny always-on-top animated cat avatar that watches Claude Code session transcripts and reflects activity through its animation state. Tapping it opens a panel showing each active session's context-window fill as a live percentage bar, with a danger warning above 60%.

Interaction model — two surfaces:

Avatar — a tiny (~64×64), transparent, always-on-top, click-through-except-on-the-cat window. Always visible. Animation is driven by live data (idle / running with agent count / alarmed).
Panel — a second, larger window that toggles open near the avatar when the cat is tapped, and dismisses on tap-away or a second tap. Contains the context meter(s). Not always visible.

Stack:

Tauri 2 (Rust backend + webview frontend) — chosen for small footprint, native always-on-top, transparency, and multi-window support.
Frontend: plain HTML/CSS/JS or a lightweight framework (see Open Questions). Keep it minimal for Phase 1.
File watching: Rust-side, using the notify crate to tail JSONL transcripts.
State bridge: Tauri events (emit/listen) to push updates from Rust to both windows.
Avatar art: sprite-sheet or SVG/CSS animation (see Open Questions) — designed separately; the plan leaves an asset slot.

Non-goals for Phase 1: permission approval, plan/quota usage, dashboard, multi-machine/LAN. These are scoped in later phases so the architecture leaves room for them but does not build them yet.

Read the full file on GitHub · 369 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.

2mo ago First seen · 369 lines · 6,137 tokens per session scan B 40f397cbebdc

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tablo CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository unravel-team/tablo (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6,137 tokens to every session, about $0.0245 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, 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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