varrd: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

varrd CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from varrdinc/varrd. It costs 243 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for contributing to the varrd codebase, covering branches, pull requests, commits, secrets, and review rules. A pull request is a proposed code change submitted for review before it is merged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a checklist before changing or committing code in varrd, especially when creating branches, staging files, writing pull requests, or handling configuration secrets.
Why use it?
Shared repository rules prevent accidental changes to the main branch, leaked secrets, oversized pull requests, and unrelated fixes being mixed together.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 243 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00243 $0.00243
Opus 5 $0.00121 $0.00121
Sonnet 5 $0.00049 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00024

Measured yesterday against content hash cdd9c7d0ba01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

varrd 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 yesterday.

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 · 16 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md — varrd

⭐ How We Ship — SDLC etiquette (READ BEFORE ANY COMMIT)

Canonical rules: docs/SDLC.md in varrdinc/_VARRD_. The non-negotiables:

  • Never push to main (org ruleset blocks it). Branch (claude/<desc>) → PR → review → squash-merge. Default approver: @augiemazza (see CODEOWNERS).
  • Never git add -A. Stage ONLY files you changed, by name.
  • PR body = root cause · fix · risk · how tested.
  • One logical change per PR. Branches auto-delete on merge.
  • Never force-push main, never --no-verify.
  • Never commit a secret (key, token, password, .env). Secrets live in AWS SSM Parameter Store under /varrd/* — reference by name, fetch at runtime.
  • Found gross/outdated code while working? Fix it in its OWN small PR — never smuggled.
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. yesterday First seen · 16 lines · 243 tokens per session scan A cdd9c7d0ba01

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varrd CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository varrdinc/varrd (24 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 243 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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 2026-09-05.

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