SwarmAI: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

SwarmAI CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from xg-gh-25/SwarmAI. It costs 355 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for SwarmAI, an agent operating system whose rules and checks control how its language-model proposals are accepted.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when modifying or reviewing SwarmAI. They help select the right files and commands and ensure affected builds and tests pass before code is pushed.
Why use it?
They give coding assistants the project’s architecture, conventions, required tests, build commands, and conditions for pushing changes.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is xg-gh-25/SwarmAI's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on SwarmAI 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 SwarmAI configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to xg-gh-25/SwarmAI. 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/xg-gh-25/SwarmAI/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xg-gh-25/SwarmAI

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 355 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 355 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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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 $0.00355 $0.00355
Opus 5.5 $0.00142 $0.00142
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00071 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00036 $0.00036

Measured 8d ago against content hash a2bd92b0104f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

SwarmAI 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 8d 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 · 24 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md

Short entry point for Claude Code / Cursor / other AI coding assistants working in this repo.

SwarmAI is a self-evolving Agent OS, not a Claude wrapper. Cognition (how it judges — principles, rules, gates) is kept separate from knowledge (what it knows). The model proposes; a layer of gates + a staged pipeline + a validator dispose. Much of backend/core/ is "guardrails around an LLM" — that is the product.

Read AGENTS.md before any non-trivial change. It is the single source of truth for this repo: architecture, dev commands, the test command form, the push gate (build + tests + eval), and commit rules. Coding anti-patterns and lifecycle invariants are in .kiro/steering/swarmai-dev-rules.md.

The three rules people get wrong most often (full detail in AGENTS.md):

  1. No push unless build, tests, and cd backend && python scripts/ci_eval_gate.py are all green. Commit directly to main; never auto-branch.
  2. pytest needs a wall-clock cap: perl -e 'alarm 90; exec @ARGV' python -m pytest tests/test_<module>.py -v --timeout=60 (from backend/). Never pipe pytest through | tail.
  3. Every commit ends with Co-Authored-By: Swarm <[email protected]>, never a Claude/Anthropic identity. Nothing enforces this for a manual commit — write it yourself.
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. 8d ago Changed · -28 lines · -324 tokens per session a2bd92b0104f
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 52 lines · 679 tokens per session scan A 1843f86f7686

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SwarmAI CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository xg-gh-25/SwarmAI (55 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 355 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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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