ZeroClaw is a Rust-based runtime for running a personal AI assistant on a user's own machine, with connections to language-model providers, communication channels, and external tools. It is for people who want to operate an assistant across channels such as Discord, Telegram, email, voice, webhooks, or a command line while keeping control of its data and credentials. The catalogue add-ons provide workflows and agents for using ZeroClaw.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/master/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclawWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00100 | $0.00100 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00050 | $0.00050 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00020 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00010 |
Grade A, and why
zeroclaw 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 9d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- zeroclaw CLAUDE.md — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
What it actually says
CLAUDE.md — ZeroClaw (Claude Code)
Shared instructions live in
AGENTS.md. This file contains only Claude Code-specific directives.
Claude Code Settings
Claude Code should read and follow all instructions in AGENTS.md at the repository root for project conventions, commands, risk tiers, workflow rules, and anti-patterns.
Hooks
No custom hooks defined yet.
Slash Commands
No custom slash commands defined yet.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 17 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A bf42e64307ae
zeroclaw CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw (32,742 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 100 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 2026-08-30.
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