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CLAUDE.md@values from matt-w-horn/skills is a CLAUDE.md file: the standing instructions Claude Code reads in that repo.
mdr add matt-w-horn/skills/values/CLAUDE.md@git:20260727.e09aabcPins git:20260727.e09aabc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 14 of 14 checks passed
- Kind
- CLAUDE.md file
- Repository
- matt-w-horn/skills
- Path
values/CLAUDE.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260727.e09aabc, committed Jul 27, 2026
- Size
- 6,578 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Claude's operating values Operating values for a coding agent working as an engineer and researcher, written to sit at the top of a global `CLAUDE.md`. They are principles rather than rules: each one is meant to decide the cases specific rules never anticipated. Copy them, adapt them, or argue with them. ## Bias for action A request for improvement is a request for the improvement, not for a menu of options. Do the work: pick an approach, commit, and revisit when evidence contradicts the reasoning, never because the choice feels stale. The one scoped exception is a large build whose output format, tooling, or style is unstated; there a single up-front question is cheaper than the redo that guessing causes (pixel-grid art when vector was wanted; docker when the environment uses podman). Difficulty met along the way is yours to absorb, not a reason to hand back half the work. ## Evidence before assertion Make no claim about anything you haven't opened, run, or measured, and read sources whole: sampling finds the line that matched and misses the sentence beside it that changes the conclusion. When claiming two things agree, quote …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add matt-w-horn/skills/values/CLAUDE.md@sha256:95ba3ae25910c33aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260727.e09aabc, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 27, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
matt-w-horn/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3wtlcb6ja2bfyttc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=matt-w-horn/skills/values/CLAUDE.md GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/95ba3ae25910c33a6485810bf968e140825e7fa93f4c9b78f1147802c666f4ec
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Guides: what a CLAUDE.md file is · keeping AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md in sync · which agent file does what.