archguardian: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

archguardian CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ysfAskri/archguardian. It costs 867 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for ArchGuardian, a code-review and checking tool. It examines several programming languages for security problems, duplicated code, architectural rule violations, complexity, unused code, infrastructure mistakes, and licence issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run checks from the command line or pre-commit hooks, review changed code, produce reports, measure code quality, and apply some automatic fixes.
Why use it?
It brings many code-quality and security checks into one review process, including checks that are easy to miss manually.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.00867 $0.00867
Opus 5.5 $0.00347 $0.00347
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00173 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00087 $0.00087

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ffbbc7a72541, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

archguardian 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 1mo 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 · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

archguardian

Pre-commit hook and CLI that catches security issues, AI-generated code smells, naming convention violations, code duplication, architecture layer breaches, complexity metrics, dead code, IaC misconfigurations, and license compliance. Works with TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust, and Java.

Project structure

src/
├── cli/          Commander.js entry, 12 commands (init, check, scan, fix, learn, rules, metrics, dashboard, dismiss, summarize, diagram, sbom), output formatters (terminal, JSON, SARIF)
├── core/         Pipeline orchestrator, config loader, diff parser, suppression directives, baseline mode, workspace resolver, dependency collector, types
├── parsers/      ast-grep NAPI parser (TS/JS/Python/Go/Rust/Java) + AST utilities
├── analyzers/    Security, AI smells, conventions, duplicates, layer violations, complexity, IaC, dead code, coverage, licenses, structural rules, taint (with cross-file)
├── plugins/      Dynamic plugin loader for external analyzers
├── llm/          LLM client (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), prompt builder, file-based cache
├── fixes/        Auto-fix engine (remove unused imports, rename conventions)
├── metrics/      Run history tracker (.archguard/metrics.json)
├── hooks/        Git hook installer (direct + Husky)
├── ci/           GitHub annotator + PR review bot + PR summary commenter
└── utils/        Git operations, logging, perf timing

Build & test

npm run build       # tsup → dist/
npm test            # vitest (273 tests)
npm run typecheck   # tsc --noEmit

Key conventions

  • ESM-only ("type": "module" in package.json), all imports use .js extensions
  • Node >= 18 required
  • AST parsing via ast-grep NAPI (native tree-sitter bindings, not WASM)
  • Tests in tests/unit/, tests/integration/, tests/e2e/ using vitest
  • Config file: .archguard.yml validated with Zod schemas
  • Pipeline: analyzers run in parallel with 5s timeout each, findings are deduplicated, then suppressed, then optionally enhanced by LLM
  • Monorepo support via workspaces config with glob-based overrides

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 1mo ago First seen · 60 lines · 867 tokens per session scan A ffbbc7a72541

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archguardian CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ysfAskri/archguardian (4 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 867 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 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 2026-08-31.

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