critic: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

critic CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from yegor256/critic. It costs 101 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of writing rules for a project's CLAUDE.md instruction file. It requires short direct sentences, one sentence per line, and explicit action, target, and condition.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write concise project rules, remove unnecessary command explanations, and avoid emotional or rhetorical language.
Why use it?
It makes coding instructions more consistent and easier for an agent to follow.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is yegor256/critic's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on critic 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 critic configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to yegor256/critic. 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/yegor256/critic/master/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yegor256/critic

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 101 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 101 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.
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 $0.00101 $0.00101
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00051
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00020
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00010

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1f477a9f9cd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critic 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 7d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

CLAUDE.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

Skills Repository

Write one sentence per line. Keep each sentence short and concise. Separate clauses with periods rather than semicolons, colons, or em dashes. Name action, target, and condition. Write rules as direct orders, not opinions or suggestions. Strip emotions and rhetorical flourish. Forbid we love, unfortunately, please, kindly, and exclamation marks. Trust agent's prior knowledge. Drop CLI flags, command examples, and explanations of standard tools.

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. 7d ago First seen · 12 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 1f477a9f9cd5

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critic CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository yegor256/critic (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 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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