What is mathematica-mcp AGENTS.md?

Project instructions for controlling a connected Mathematica application through its integration tools. Here, a notebook means a live window in Mathematica, not just a file on disk.

Use them to route Mathematica requests such as evaluating code, solving problems, creating or opening live notebooks, plotting, taking screenshots, and reading notebook files.

They prevent the wrong tools or workflow from being used for calculations, plots, notebooks, screenshots, and saved notebook files.

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When invoked 533 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 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.

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00533	$0.00533
Opus 5.5	$0.00213	$0.00213
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00107	$0.00107
Haiku 4.5	$0.00053	$0.00053

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 1bb06492ea77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mathematica-mcp AGENTS.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 2mo 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.

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.

AGENTS.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mathematica MCP - Agent Instructions

This project has a Mathematica MCP server connected. It gives you direct control of a running Mathematica instance through MCP tools.

Key concept

A "notebook" here means a LIVE WINDOW inside the Mathematica frontend, not a .nb file on disk. The default lean profile exposes 12 consolidated tools.

Rules

ALWAYS use MCP tools for Mathematica work.
NEVER use wolframscript CLI, shell commands, mkdir, or manual .nb file creation.
For notebook files on disk, prefer read_notebook_file(path) - no kernel needed. Use notebooks(action="open"/"save"/"export") only when the user explicitly wants a live window or disk output.

Routing (lean profile, default)

User says	What to do
"calculate", "compute", "solve", "evaluate"	`evaluate(code)` - kernel, result in chat
"plot", "show", "in notebook"	`evaluate(code, target="notebook")` - in the live notebook
"new notebook"	`notebooks(action="create", title=...)` then `evaluate(code, target="notebook")`
"screenshot", "what does it look like"	`screenshot(scope="notebook")` (or `scope="cell"` / `"expression"`)
"verify", "check derivation"	`verify_derivation(steps)`
something failed / warnings	`kernel(action="messages")` then `guide(topic="errors")`

Default when ambiguous: evaluate(code) (kernel). More guidance on demand: guide(topic="workflow").

Typical workflow

# User: "integrate x^2 in new notebook and plot it"
1. notebooks(action="create", title="Integration")   # opens live notebook window
2. evaluate("Integrate[x^2, x]", target="notebook")   # writes + evaluates there
3. evaluate("Plot[x^3/3, {x, -2, 2}]", target="notebook")

That's it. No mkdir, no export, no file search.

With MATHEMATICA_PROFILE=classic, the legacy names apply instead: execute_code(style=...), create_notebook(title=...), screenshot_notebook, get_messages.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 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.

2mo ago First seen · 45 lines · 533 tokens per session scan A 1bb06492ea77

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mathematica-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository AbhiRawat4841/mathematica-mcp (55 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 533 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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