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Claude Code Starter Kit

The production setup I wish I'd had on day one of running Claude Code as a real engineer. Most people run it with no operating model at all — no charter, no permission boundaries, no guard against the agent leaking a secret. This is the opinionated baseline. Copy it in and start grounded, not from a blank CLAUDE.md.

It's deliberately lean — not 200 files you'll never open. A small set you'll actually adopt. The curation is the point.

// what's inside

template/                  # copy into your project root
├── CLAUDE.md              # the operating charter
├── .claude/settings.json  # permission allow / ask / deny
├── .claude/commands/      # /review, /ship, /promote
├── .agent/                # memory: trust · journal · wisdom
├── .githooks/pre-commit   # blocks committing secrets
├── scripts/scan-secrets.sh
└── .mcp.json              # a curated, minimal MCP set
docs/  charter-guide · mcp-guide · walkthrough-script
+ a ~10-min walkthrough video

✓The operating charter — a CLAUDE.md built on a trust ladder (the agent earns autonomy Tier 0→3, per domain) and prime directives it can never cross. The centerpiece.
✓Permission boundaries — a settings.json allow/ask/deny so the agent can't wander into a force-push or read your .env.
✓A secret-scan pre-commit hook — dependency-free, blocks any commit that contains a credential. The guard this very site ships with.
✓A curated MCP set — the two servers worth running by default, plus a guide on what to add and what to skip.
✓Two field guides — how to adapt the trust ladder to your team, and how to choose MCP servers. The why, not just the files.
✓A worked memory system + a walkthrough video — a filled-in .agent/ example, the /review, /ship, and /promote commands, and ~10 minutes of the whole thing running on a real repo. Templates you can see work.

Not included, on purpose: prompt packs, 200-file dumps, "10x" promises. This is a setup, not a magic trick.

$39 founder · one-time

$49 early-bird price · commercial use · free updates

Secure checkout on Gumroad · instant download

// who it's for

Engineers (solo or on a team) who:

Run Claude Code on real codebases, not toy demos
Want boundaries and an operating model, not just more prompts
Have been one bad agent action away from a force-push or a leaked key
Would rather copy a grounded setup than trial-and-error their own

// going deeper

This kit is the operating foundation. The course builds a full autonomous pipeline on top of it — kit buyers get a credit toward it.

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