chief-of-staff-template: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

chief-of-staff-template CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from will-pagane/chief-of-staff-template. It costs 4,116 tokens per session, scanned B, original, no licence file.

A Claude Code instruction template for a chief of staff, a role that helps organise work, context, setup, and memory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure Claude Code for chief-of-staff work in the referenced project.
Why use it?
It provides a defined place for the project’s working instructions and memory settings.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is will-pagane/chief-of-staff-template's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on chief-of-staff-template 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 chief-of-staff-template configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to will-pagane/chief-of-staff-template. 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/will-pagane/chief-of-staff-template/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/will-pagane/chief-of-staff-template

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 4,116 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 4,116 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.04116 $0.04116
Opus 5.5 $0.01646 $0.01646
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00823 $0.00823
Haiku 4.5 $0.00412 $0.00412

Measured 2mo ago against content hash a174e8efc637, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

chief-of-staff-template CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

The loader queries that MCP via the host's MCP interface (claude.ai connector under Claude Code, `~/.codex/config.toml` under Codex) and returns a markdown summary. To specialize a loader for one MCP you use heavily, cop
CLAUDE.md · 245 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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 · 245 lines · 4,116 tokens per session scan B a174e8efc637

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chief-of-staff-template CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository will-pagane/chief-of-staff-template (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 4,116 tokens to every session, about $0.0165 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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