apple-ecosystem-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

apple-ecosystem-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from abhinavag-svg/apple-ecosystem-mcp. It costs 2,643 tokens per session, scanned D, original, MIT.

Internal engineering instructions for an Apple ecosystem MCP project, covering its AppleScript bridge, identifiers, data formats, dates, threading, and localization.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing or maintaining the project, especially when passing data to AppleScript, serializing results, handling dates, or calling the GUI bridge concurrently.
Why use it?
They document rules that help maintainers avoid tool-registration failures, permission errors, inconsistent data, and security regressions.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is abhinavag-svg/apple-ecosystem-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on apple-ecosystem-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything apple-ecosystem-mcp configures →

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is cd mcpb/contents && zip -r ../apple-ecosystem-mcp.mcpb . && cd ../...

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to abhinavag-svg/apple-ecosystem-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abhinavag-svg/apple-ecosystem-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abhinavag-svg/apple-ecosystem-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 2,643 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,643 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan D 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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Opus 5 $0.01321 $0.01321
Sonnet 5 $0.00529 $0.00529
Haiku 4.5 $0.00264 $0.00264

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Security

Grade D, and why

apple-ecosystem-mcp CLAUDE.md scanned grade D with 3 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 11d ago.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- **[.claude/settings.local.json](./.claude/settings.local.json)** — Pre-approved tools, agent teams enabled

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf mcpb && mkdir -p mcpb/contents

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

- **Threading:** Module-level `threading.Lock` serializes every `subprocess.run()` call — AppleScript against GUI is not thread-safe
CLAUDE.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Ecosystem MCP — Internal Engineering Guide

This is an internal implementation reference for maintainers and contributors. It is not the best public entry point for understanding the product. For the project narrative, use README.md and the docs set under docs/.

This file exists to capture engineering contracts, release discipline, and contributor expectations for the current codebase.

Critical Contracts

These are the working constraints for this repo. Breaking them tends to cause tool registration failures, permission errors, data-shape drift, or security regressions.

AppleScript Bridge

  • argv pattern only: Always pass user data as positional arguments: osascript -e 'on run argv...end run' -- "$arg1" "$arg2"
  • Never interpolate: Do not use shlex or string interpolation into AppleScript source
  • Serialization: All structured returns must be JSON strings, parsed with json.loads()
  • Dates: ISO 8601 format via «class isot» as string in AppleScript
  • Threading: Module-level threading.Lock serializes every subprocess.run() call — AppleScript against GUI is not thread-safe

Canonical Identifiers

  • Mail: RFC Message-ID (id of message in AppleScript)
  • Calendar: iCalendar UID (uid of event)
  • Contacts: vCard UUID (id of person)
  • Reminders: UUID (id of reminder)
  • All tools must target by ID/UID, never by localized display name

Localization Rule

  • Mailbox/calendar/list names ARE locale-specific (English, French, etc. have different names)
  • Never hardcode display names like "Calendar", "INBOX", "Reminders"
  • Always use persistent IDs or return {name, id, account_name} so callers use id not name
  • Defaults: calendar_uid=None means "all calendars"; mailbox_id=None means "all mailboxes"

Error Handling

  • Never leak stderr: stderr may contain email subjects, contact names, file paths
  • Raise RuntimeError(f"AppleScript failed (exit {code})") only; log stderr to DEBUG file logger
  • FastMCP surfaces RuntimeError as tool error automatically — don't import McpError

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 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. 11d ago First seen · 234 lines · 2,643 tokens per session scan D ce50b8fa8f84

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apple-ecosystem-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository abhinavag-svg/apple-ecosystem-mcp (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,643 tokens to every session, about $0.0132 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (reads agent configuration directories, recursive force delete, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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