texflow-mcp CLAUDE.md

A document server that turns structured content or Markdown files into LaTeX documents and compiled PDFs. LaTeX is a text-based system commonly used for typeset papers and technical documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or import documents, revise their content and layout, configure typesetting, and produce PDF files.
Why use it?
It lets an agent edit document sections, figures, and tables without managing LaTeX setup and compilation details directly.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/aaronsb/texflow-mcp/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaronsb/texflow-mcp
Per session 770 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 770 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00770 $0.00770
Opus 5 $0.00385 $0.00385
Sonnet 5 $0.00154 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00077 $0.00077

Measured yesterday against content hash efbdf2f8127f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

texflow-mcp CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TeXFlow MCP Server

Project Overview

TeXFlow is a LaTeX document compiler with an MCP interface. The AI operates on a structured document model (sections, paragraphs, figures, tables) and the server handles all LaTeX mechanics — packages, preamble, compilation.

Two entry flows:

  1. Scaffold: document(action="create") → empty document skeleton → AI builds content via edit tool
  2. Markdown ingest: document(action="ingest", source="file.md") → populated model → AI refines layout

Both converge on an in-memory Document model that auto-saves to disk. LaTeX is only ever an output artifact.

Architecture

server.py                          # FastMCP entry point, 5 tool registrations
texflow/
  model.py                         # Document model dataclasses
  serializer.py                    # Model → .tex generation
  ingestion.py                     # Markdown → model (mistune AST)
  compiler.py                      # .tex → PDF (xelatex subprocess)
  tools/
    state.py                       # Shared session state, auto-save
    document.py                    # create, ingest, outline, read
    layout.py                      # configure typesetting
    edit.py                        # insert, replace, delete, move blocks
    render.py                      # compile, preview, tex export
    reference.py                   # LaTeX documentation search
  data/
    font_map.json                  # Font name → LaTeX package
    class_defaults.json            # Document class defaults
    latex_reference/               # Commands, symbols, packages, errors
tests/
  test_model.py
  test_serializer.py
  test_ingestion.py
  test_compiler.py
  test_tools.py
  fixtures/sample.md

5 MCP Tools

  • document — create, ingest, outline, read
  • layout — columns, fonts, paper, margins, headers/footers, TOC
  • edit — insert/replace/delete/move blocks (section, paragraph, figure, table, code, equation, list, raw)
  • render — compile to PDF, preview page as PNG, export .tex
  • reference — search commands/symbols, package info, error help, style check, examples

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 90 lines · 770 tokens per session scan A efbdf2f8127f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

texflow-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository aaronsb/texflow-mcp (20 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 770 tokens to every session, about $0.0038 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.