grimoire CLAUDE.md

grimoire CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from vedantggwp/grimoire. It costs 826 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Grimoire, a local-first tool that turns research on a topic into an organised, searchable knowledge base. They describe its files, workflow, rules, and available commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing Grimoire, especially when working on research, source collection, wiki articles, cross-references, the study website, or its optional AI-tool connection.
Why use it?
They give a coding agent the project context it needs to make consistent changes without guessing how the plugin is structured or what each command should do.

Instructions file

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside the plugin that ships it — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/vedantggwp/grimoire/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vedantggwp/grimoire

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When invoked 826 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 $0.00826 $0.00826
Opus 5 $0.00413 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00165 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00083 $0.00083

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1a240659dbad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grimoire 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 4d 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 · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

You are in Grimoire, a local-first knowledge base builder packaged as a Claude Code plugin. Grimoire turns a topic into a structured knowledge base by scouting sources, ingesting and compiling them into wiki articles, generating a study-oriented frontend, and optionally serving the result to LLM tools through MCP.

This file loads on every conversation. Keep it lean.

  • Read SOUL.md for the full product bible, architecture, boundaries, or source-of-truth clarification
  • Read docs/decisions.md for architectural decision history

Plugin Structure

Grimoire is a Claude Code plugin. Skills are auto-discovered from skills/*/SKILL.md.

Skill Job
run One-command pipeline: new → scout → ingest → compile → present, 2 checkpoints
new Interactive questionnaire + workspace scaffolding
scout Research sources, score confidence, curate URL list
ingest Fetch sources, preserve raw text, compile wiki articles
compile Cross-references, backlinks, overview, gap analysis
present Generate study-oriented static frontend
serve Expose knowledge via custom MCP server
update Headless scheduled refresh: delta scout → policy ingest → connections → freshness → PR

Core Rules

  1. One skill, one job. Keep responsibilities isolated. Each skill has its own references and assets.

  2. Plain text is the interface. Markdown files are the contract between skills. Prefer transparent, editable artifacts.

  3. Keep outputs editable and local. Humans must be able to inspect and modify outputs between steps.

  4. Use ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} for all internal path references. Never hardcode absolute paths.

  5. Papyr Core is a plugin dependency. It handles markdown parsing, graph construction, search indexing, and analytics. Do not rebuild what it provides.

Workspace Convention

Maintain MANIFEST.md as the workspace change ledger. Update it whenever files are created, edited, renamed, or deleted.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 4d ago First seen · 75 lines · 826 tokens per session scan A 1a240659dbad

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grimoire CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vedantggwp/grimoire (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 826 tokens to every session, about $0.0041 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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