CLAUDE.md Gallery
18 real CLAUDE.md files from production repositories and curated templates. See how the best teams configure Claude Code.
From Real Repos
Vercel AI SDK
The gold standard.
~300 lines. Exhaustive architecture docs, testing patterns, contribution guidelines.
Pydantic AI
Personality as convention.
"Channel your inner Samuel Colvin." Philosophy-first approach.
Dan Abramov's overreacted.io
Voice preservation.
Preserves distinctive writing voice for content generation.
Cloudflare workers-sdk
Pioneered the pointer pattern.
Pointer pattern -- root links to package-level files. Scales massively.
Vercel next-devtools-mcp
Best MCP server CLAUDE.md.
Bridges MCP protocol patterns with Next.js integration layer.
Anthropic Quickstarts
Anthropic's own dogfooding.
From Anthropic themselves. Multi-project, multi-language conventions.
MCP TypeScript SDK
Code examples over prose.
JSDoc-style code snippets showing canonical usage patterns.
MCP Python SDK
Test-driven benchmark.
100% test coverage requirement with specific pytest patterns.
HumanLayer
Conciseness benchmark.
~60 lines. Every line carries specific, actionable information.
Supabase JS
Transitional state docs.
Documents active migrations and transitional states honestly.
Templates by Stack
TypeScript Fullstack (Template)
Complete team template.
Next.js 14 app router with Prisma ORM. Strict TypeScript, no any.
Python ML Project (Template)
ML project template.
ML pipeline with FastAPI serving. Reproducibility is paramount.
Rust CLI Tool (Template)
Rust project template.
CLI tool with async I/O. Safety and ergonomics first.
Go Microservice (Template)
Go project template.
HTTP/gRPC service with PostgreSQL. Standard Go project layout.
React Component Library (Template)
Open source template.
Accessible component library. WCAG 2.1 AA required.
Startup Monorepo (Template)
Solo startup template.
Full-stack startup. One engineer. Correctness over velocity.
Swift iOS App (Template)
iOS project template.
SwiftUI app with Core Data persistence. Ship weekly.
Node.js API (Template)
API project template.
Fastify REST API with Prisma and Redis caching.