Free Claude Code Website Development Resources
Free, ungated production resources for developers building websites with Claude Code: a CLAUDE.md starter, and launch, SEO, security and website audit checklists.
Everything here is free, ungated, and stays that way. No email required to read any of it. These are the working documents behind the Claude Code guides on this site — the versions I actually open when I am building something rather than writing about it.
Use them in client work. Copy them into your own repository. Adapt them. The only thing asked in return is that you do not repackage and resell them as your own.
The resources
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Production CLAUDE.md Starter
A working
CLAUDE.mdcovering project context, architecture boundaries, coding standards, testing, security, SEO, accessibility, deployment, prohibited actions and a definition of done — plus how to tell whether yours is being followed. -
Website Launch Checklist
Eighteen sections between “it looks finished” and “it is live and behaving”: requirements, architecture, responsive, accessibility, technical SEO, structured data, performance, security, forms, commerce, analytics, search engines, deployment and post-launch validation.
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SEO Checklist
Sixteen sections of technical SEO in dependency order, from crawlability through to Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools and IndexNow. Deliberately limited to things a machine can actually verify.
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Security Checklist
Secrets, headers, input handling, authentication, sessions, authorisation, webhooks, dependencies, CI/CD, production hygiene, logging and privacy — plus a short section on what changes when an assistant can read your repository.
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Website Audit Checklist
For a site that already exists. Fifteen sections of inspection, a severity scale, and a format for writing up findings with evidence attached rather than opinions.
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CLAUDE.md Starter Kit
Four complete
CLAUDE.mdfiles — static site, web application, Shopify theme, monorepo package — with a checklist and a licence, as a zip. This one asks for an email address; everything else on this page does not.
Why these are free
Two honest reasons. The first is that the methodology is not the scarce part — assembling it, testing it, and keeping it current is. The Launch System exists for people who would rather have that done than do it. If these checklists answer your question and you never buy anything, that is a fine outcome.
The second is that a resource nobody can link to is not a resource. Gating a checklist behind a form guarantees it never gets cited, recommended, or found. These are meant to be linked to.
How they are maintained
These are versioned in the same repository as the site itself and updated when the underlying tooling changes. If something here is wrong, out of date, or missing, the contact page reaches me directly and I would rather know.
Related reading
The long-form versions of most of this live in the Claude Code guides. Good places to start:
The CLAUDE.md Starter Kit, free
Four working CLAUDE.md files you can drop into a project today, plus the one-page checklist for what belongs in one and how to tell whether yours is actually working.
- CLAUDE.md for a static marketing site
- CLAUDE.md for a web application, with security and migration rules
- CLAUDE.md for a Shopify theme, including the gotchas that cost hours
- CLAUDE.md for a shared package in a monorepo
- A one-page checklist, and how to test the file is actually working