What is ouro-loop CLAUDE.md?

Instructions for Ouro Loop, a Python framework that guides coding agents through repeated stages such as planning, building, and checking their work.

Use them when developing or operating its framework, project setup tools, autonomous review process, tests, or shell hooks.

They explain the repository structure, test commands, and verification gates used to control and review agent work.

How VictorVVedtion/ouro-loop configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to VictorVVedtion/ouro-loop. 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/VictorVVedtion/ouro-loop/master/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VictorVVedtion/ouro-loop

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 1,281 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

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Opus 5.5	$0.00512	$0.00512
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00256	$0.00256
Haiku 4.5	$0.00128	$0.00128

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Security

Grade A, and why

ouro-loop 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 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.

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 · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 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.

Project Overview

Ouro Loop — an open-source framework providing structured autonomous loops with runtime-enforced guardrails for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Codex). Python 3.10+, zero external dependencies (pure stdlib).

Four-file core:

program.md — methodology instructions (6-stage loop: BOUND → MAP → PLAN → BUILD → VERIFY → LOOP)
framework.py — runtime CLI state machine (.ouro/state.json, verification gates, logging)
prepare.py — project initialization and scanning (read-only operations)
sentinel.py — 24/7 autonomous code review (partition scanning, runner, dashboard)

Commands

Tests

python -m pytest tests/ -v          # run all tests
python -m pytest tests/test_framework.py -v   # single test file
python -m pytest tests/test_framework.py::TestClassName::test_name -v  # single test

Lint (hooks only)

shellcheck hooks/*.sh

Framework CLI (used by agents, not for development)

python framework.py status .        # show current state
python framework.py verify .        # run verification gates
python framework.py log PASS --path .  # record phase result
python framework.py advance .       # advance to next stage
python framework.py bound-check .   # BOUND compliance check

Prepare CLI

python prepare.py scan .            # scan project structure
python prepare.py init .            # initialize .ouro/ directory
python prepare.py template claude . # install CLAUDE.md template

Sentinel CLI

ouro-sentinel init .        # scan project → generate partitions + config + CLAUDE.md
ouro-sentinel partition .   # regenerate partitions
ouro-sentinel status .      # show iteration/findings/coverage
ouro-sentinel install .     # install runner + dashboard scripts

Docs (MkDocs Material)

pip install mkdocs-material pymdown-extensions
mkdocs serve                        # local preview
mkdocs build                        # build static site

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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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ouro-loop CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository VictorVVedtion/ouro-loop (20 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,281 tokens to every session, about $0.0051 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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