hyperclaude: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

hyperclaude CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from zeikar/hyperclaude. It costs 5,002 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Hyperclaude, a Claude Code plugin where Claude writes code and Codex reviews it through a small Node script.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing Hyperclaude, running its tests, installing it locally, or working with its Claude-to-Codex bridge.
Why use it?
They give coding agents the project’s rules, required tools, commands, and limits, reducing mistakes when changing or testing the repository.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to zeikar/hyperclaude. 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/zeikar/hyperclaude/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zeikar/hyperclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

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Sonnet 5.5 $0.01000 $0.01000
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Measured 24d ago against content hash 2fe8e233e7f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hyperclaude 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 24d 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 · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 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.

What this repo is

hyperclaude is a Claude Code plugin that pairs Claude (builder) with Codex (critic) via a thin Node script. Claude implements, Codex reviews — that is the default role split; when Codex usage runs ahead of its rate-limit window, a loop seats an adversarial Claude reviewer agent instead (references/reviewer-seat.md). Codex is always invoked with read-only sandbox; never let it author patches.

The plugin is meant to be installed into Claude Code (/plugin install hyperclaude); when you're editing this repo, you're editing the plugin source itself.

Commands

Prerequisites: Node 18+, codex-cli >= 0.130.0 on PATH, git. No npm install step — stdlib only.

node --test tests/*.mjs                   # unit tests (shared fixtures live in tests/helpers/,
                                          # outside the glob). NOTE: `node --test tests/` (dir
                                          # form) does NOT work — it interprets the path as a
                                          # test name and fails.
node --test tests/codex-args.test.mjs --test-name-pattern "<regex>"
                                          # single test by name
bash scripts/test/smoke.sh                # acceptance smoke: dry-runs, manifest, hook, codex probes
node scripts/codex-bridge.mjs <mode> --dry-run [flags]
                                          # exercise the bridge without spawning codex

Both test commands must pass before tagging a release. Zero npm dependencies — do not introduce any.

Local dev install (dogfooding)

To exercise skill/agent edits live inside Claude Code, symlink the repo into the plugin cache. Use the version from .claude-plugin/plugin.json as the leaf:

version=$(node -e 'console.log(require("./.claude-plugin/plugin.json").version)')
ln -s "$(pwd)" ~/.claude/plugins/cache/hyperclaude/hyperclaude/"$version"

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 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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hyperclaude CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zeikar/hyperclaude (5 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,002 tokens to every session, about $0.0200 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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