claude-code

A configuration guide for Claude Code, an Anthropic command-line coding assistant, covering skills, agents, hooks, permissions, tool servers, and project instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up project or global instructions, install skills and agents, write hooks, configure permissions, register MCP servers, and connect editor integrations.
Why use it?
It helps explain how Claude Code loads settings and avoids errors when adding automation or controlling which tools it may use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kid-sid/codex-spellbook/claude-code
Any agent
npx skills add kid-sid/codex-spellbook --skill claude-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kid-sid/codex-spellbook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,884 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00038 $0.03884
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01942
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00777
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00388

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2cc0120a7c8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

claude-code scanned grade D with 2 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 2d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Settings are merged: `settings.local.json` overrides `.claude/settings.json` overrides `~/.claude/settings.json`.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

"command": "bash -c 'echo $CLAUDE_TOOL_INPUT | grep -q \"rm -rf\" && { echo \"rm -rf blocked\"; exit 2; } || exit 0'"
skills/claude-code/SKILL.md · 543 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 543 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Setup

Configuration and customization reference for Claude Code — skills, commands, agents, hooks, permissions, and MCP servers.

When to Activate

  • Setting up skills, slash commands, or agents in a new project or globally
  • Writing or debugging hook configurations in settings.json
  • Configuring tool permissions to reduce approval prompts
  • Registering or troubleshooting an MCP server
  • Writing CLAUDE.md project instructions
  • Asking how Claude Code loads context or resolves settings
  • Integrating Claude Code with VS Code or JetBrains

Directory Layout

~/.claude/                        # global — applies to all projects
├── settings.json                 # global permissions, hooks, env vars
├── CLAUDE.md                     # global instructions read at every session
├── skills/
│   └── <name>/skill.md           # or <name>.md (flat)
├── agents/
│   └── <name>.md
└── commands/
    └── <name>.md

<project>/
├── CLAUDE.md                     # project instructions (commit this)
└── .claude/
    ├── settings.json             # project permissions + hooks (commit this)
    ├── settings.local.json       # personal overrides (gitignore this)
    ├── skills/                   # project-scoped skills
    ├── agents/                   # project-scoped agents
    └── commands/                 # project-scoped commands

Settings are merged: settings.local.json overrides .claude/settings.json overrides ~/.claude/settings.json.

Skills

Skills are markdown files that Claude loads contextually when the task matches.

File Format

---
name: my-skill
description: One keyword-dense sentence used for activation matching.
---

# Title

One-sentence intro.

## When to Activate
- Verb-leading trigger condition
- Another trigger condition

## Content sections…

## Checklist
- [ ] At least one item

Installation

# Single skill (global)
cp -r skills/my-skill ~/.claude/skills/

# All skills from a library
cp -r skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

# Project-scoped (available only in this project)
cp -r skills/my-skill .claude/skills/

Read the full file on GitHub · 543 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. 2d ago First seen · 543 lines · 38 tokens per session scan D 2cc0120a7c8b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository kid-sid/codex-spellbook (21 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 3,884 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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