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CLAUDE.md from tomcounsell/ai is a CLAUDE.md file: the standing instructions Claude Code reads in that repo.
mdr add tomcounsell/ai/CLAUDE.md@git:20261021.27f2e3dPins git:20261021.27f2e3d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 14 of 14 checks passed
- Kind
- CLAUDE.md file
- Repository
- tomcounsell/ai
- Path
CLAUDE.md- Versions recorded
- 14
- Latest version
- git:20261021.27f2e3d, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 25, 2026
- Size
- 4,118 bytes
- Repository stars
- 31
- License
- GPL-3.0
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.md **Governance is restrained by structure, not sentiment.** Before any check, gate, hook, validator, review round, approval step, isolation, sandbox rule, denial, allowlist, refusal, capability removal, or verification layer is added, the change names the mission item it serves and the incident that already happened without it; missing either, it is not added. A bug fix never adds a guard; it fixes the code. Adding governance needs Tom's grant, one per instance, written in the plan file that adds it. Every guard is ledgered with the incident it prevents, the mission item it serves, and a ninety-day expiry; a guard that has not fired by expiry is listed for Tom, and deleted unless he keeps it. The reviewer asks whether the diff adds governance; a yes with no grant in the plan file is a refused merge. The same paragraph, in the same words, sits at the top of `CLAUDE.md`, in the persona rendered into every turn, and in the Not-here section of every directory README. No restraint skill, no hook that blocks hooks, no governance dashboard: each is the disease presenting as the cure. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tomcounsell/ai/CLAUDE.md@sha256:447b0483f5f85ce3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.27f2e3d, 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 14 versions of this file, between Aug 25, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 4 days.
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| git:20261021.27f2e3d latest | 2026-10-21 | 27f2e3d | 4,118 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261016.45d6cb1 | 2026-10-16 | 45d6cb1 | 4,107 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261016.6580c3e | 2026-10-16 | 6580c3e | 4,085 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261015.55d21d8 | 2026-10-15 | 55d21d8 | 3,810 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.5f85f34 | 2026-10-02 | 5f85f34 | 1,956 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261001.6184308 | 2026-10-01 | 6184308 | 1,624 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261001.171d029 | 2026-10-01 | 171d029 | 1,615 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.53c310b | 2026-09-30 | 53c310b | 1,598 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.193dbde | 2026-09-30 | 193dbde | 420 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.69db3d3 | 2026-09-07 | 69db3d3 | 14,424 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.da03701 | 2026-09-05 | da03701 | 14,101 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260904.cd39ef3 | 2026-09-04 | cd39ef3 | 21,444 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.d59f650 | 2026-08-25 | d59f650 | 21,306 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.afc10ef | 2026-08-25 | afc10ef | 20,758 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4118 bytes)
- 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
tomcounsell/ai · 31 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lqj7lfeg5lusbyjg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tomcounsell/ai/CLAUDE.md GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/447b0483f5f85ce3e3ac299bcb1c2174cbaae5004dc983eb2d428fd2f282ca97
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