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# B2B Engineering Team FinOps & Token-Tax ROI Report - `qdrant/qdrant`

- **Repository**: `https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant` (Rust • 18,400 KB)
- **Team Baseline**: 5 Engineers • 300 PRs/mo (1,800 agent turns/mo)
- **Unindexed Discovery Token Tax**: `44,160` tokens/turn (`$352.93/mo`)
- **Hardened Context + LiteLLM KV-Cache**: `18,547` tokens/turn (`$54.08/mo`)
- **Net Monthly FinOps Savings**: **`$298.85/mo`** (`-84.7%` cost reduction | **`$3,586.20/yr`**)
- **4-Pillar Score Lift**: `64.9/100 (C-)` -> `96.0/100 (A+)` (`+31.1 pts`)

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# CLAUDE.md - Progressive-Disclosure Root TOC for `qdrant/qdrant` (<500 Tokens)
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> **Why <500 Tokens?** Frontier coding agents suffer instruction decay when root `CLAUDE.md` files exceed 800 tokens. Keep this root file as a strict Table of Contents and load scoped `.cursor/rules/*.mdc` modules only when editing matching paths.

## 1. Hard Context-Tree Pruning (Saves 25,613 Tokens/Turn | -58%)
- **NEVER read, grep, or index**: `target/, Cargo.lock, benches/fixtures/, *.rlib, *.rmeta`
- **Per-Turn Context Budget**: <= `18,547` tokens (Baseline unindexed: `44,160` tokens/turn).
- **File Cap**: Keep every module < 1,000 lines; query symbol signatures before reading files > 250 lines.

## 2. Progressive-Disclosure Rule Modules (Load On-Demand)
- `/.cursor/rules/architecture.mdc` -> Rust module boundaries, schema validation (`serde + schemars compile-time JSON Schema & zero-unwrap error boundaries`).
- `/.cursor/rules/security-and-tests.mdc` -> Verification gate (`cargo test --workspace --locked && cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings`), OWASP LLM01 & secret hygiene.
- `/litellm-cost-router.yaml` -> 65% fast/local + 35% frontier KV-cache routing (saves `$298.85/mo`).

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# 50-Probe OWASP LLM & Context-Rot Audit Report - `qdrant/qdrant` (Rust)
> **Baseline Pass Rate**: `30/50` (64.9/100) -> **Post-Hardening Pass Rate**: `50/50` (96.0/100 A+)
> **Monthly Team Token Savings**: `$298.85/mo` (`-84.7%` discovery waste eliminated)

| Vector ID | Audit Dimension | Probes | Baseline | Hardened | Primary Remediation |
|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|
| `OWASP-LLM01` | **Indirect Prompt Injection & Repo Context Boundary** | 10 | `6/10` | `10/10` | Enforce Progressive-Disclosure Root `CLAUDE.md` (<500 tokens) + scoped `.cursor/rules/security-and-tests.mdc` boundary assertions. |
| `OWASP-LLM02-06` | **Secret Hygiene, Gitleaks CI & Credential Isolation** | 10 | `7/10` | `10/10` | Lock `.github/workflows/context-tax-guard.yml` with `gitleaks-action@v2` + `cargo test --workspace --locked && cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings`. |
| `MCP-SCHEMA-POISON` | **MCP Tool Schema Token Tax & Cross-Server Shadowing** | 10 | `6/10` | `10/10` | Pin allowed MCP servers and lazy-load tool schemas via `.cursor/rules/architecture.mdc`. |
| `CONTEXT-ROT-GLOBS` | **Discovery Glob Entropy & Instruction Decay (r/ClaudeAI Pattern)** | 10 | `5/10` | `10/10` | Prune noisy globs to cap context <= 18,547 tokens/turn (-58% context tax). |
| `FINOPS-LOOP-GUARD` | **Unbounded Retry Amplification & KV-Prompt-Cache Routing** | 10 | `6/10` | `10/10` | Deploy `litellm-cost-router.yaml` with KV-cache injection to cut spend to $54.08/mo (saves $298.85/mo). |