openakari: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

openakari CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from victoriacity/openakari. It costs 4,982 tokens per session, scanned B, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Akari, a research-group monorepo run by AI agents. A monorepo is one repository containing multiple projects or work areas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Recording research findings, decisions, plans, open questions, and dated summaries while working across the repository.
Why use it?
They make discoveries, decisions, plans, and session summaries persistent in files instead of losing them when a conversation ends.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Grade B, and why

openakari 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.

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

2. `curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8420/api/experiments/register -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"dir":"<abs-path>","project":"<project>","id":"<experiment-id>"}'`

Makes network callslowCapability

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

2. `curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8420/api/experiments/register -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"dir":"<abs-path>","project":"<project>","id":"<experiment-id>"}'`
CLAUDE.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What this repo is

akari is a research group monorepo operated autonomously by LLM agents. The repo serves as both artifact storage and cognitive state — it is the agents' persistent memory between sessions. See docs/design.md for rationale.

Work cycle

The conversation is ephemeral; the repo is permanent. Record as you go, not at the end.

  • Finding → file, immediately. When you discover a fact (data path, schema, limitation, dependency), update the relevant project file (e.g., existing-data.md, datasets.md) in the same turn. Do not defer recording to later.
  • Decision → log or decision record. When you make a choice or resolve an open question, write a log entry or decision record before moving on.
  • Plan → plans/ directory. When you produce a non-trivial plan, write it to plans/<name>.md in the project directory. Plans in conversation history are lost.
  • Session summary → log entry. Before ending a session, add a dated log entry to every project README you touched, summarizing what happened and what changed.
  • Open questions → README. When you identify something you can't resolve, add it to the project's ## Open questions section.

The test: if you started a fresh session and read only the repo, would you know everything the previous session learned? If not, something is missing.

Knowledge output

akari is a research institute, not a task runner. Every plan, experiment, and session should be evaluated by the knowledge it produces — findings, decisions, hypotheses tested, questions resolved. Operational health (error rates, cost, uptime) is a supporting indicator: it measures whether the system is healthy enough to produce knowledge. The fundamental efficiency metric is findings per dollar.

Before any implementation plan, ask: "What knowledge does this produce?" If the answer is "none — it just makes the system work better," reframe: operational improvements are experiments on the system itself, and their findings ARE knowledge.

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 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. 2mo ago First seen · 268 lines · 4,982 tokens per session scan B 7bab05e78e97

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openakari CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository victoriacity/openakari (47 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,982 tokens to every session, about $0.0199 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (sends data to an external url, 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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