nexus CLAUDE.md

nexus CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from adawalli/nexus. It costs 455 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Nexus MCP, a server that lets AI clients search the web through OpenRouter’s Perplexity Sonar models. MCP is a standard way for AI clients to call external tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or testing Nexus MCP, including its search tool, OpenRouter client, cache, and structured responses.
Why use it?
It documents the request flow, commands, and key directories, making it easier to change or test the server without overlooking validation, caching, or retries.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/adawalli/nexus/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adawalli/nexus

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Security

Grade A, and why

nexus 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 5d 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.

CLAUDE.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

Nexus MCP is a Model Context Protocol server providing AI-powered web search via OpenRouter's Perplexity Sonar models. It's designed for zero-install deployment via npx nexus-mcp.

Essential Commands

bun run dev              # Watch mode with type checking
bun run build            # Production build
bun run test             # Full test suite (unit + integration)
bun run test:unit        # Unit tests only
bun run test:watch       # Watch mode for development

# Single test execution
bun run test -- tests/unit/clients/openrouter.test.ts
bun run test -- --grep "OpenRouter"

Architecture

Request Flow

Client Request → STDIO Transport → MCP Server (src/index.ts)
    → Correlation ID → Input Validation (Zod) → Deduplication → Cache Check
    → OpenRouter Client (src/clients/openrouter.ts) → Response Optimization
    → Structured Response with Metadata

Key Directories

  • src/index.ts - MCP server entry point with tool/resource handlers
  • src/tools/search.ts - Search tool with caching, deduplication, retry logic
  • src/clients/openrouter.ts - OpenRouter API client with error handling
  • src/config/ - Configuration management with JSON schema validation
  • src/utils/ - Shared utilities (caching, deduplication, error handling, logging)
  • src/schemas/ - Zod validation schemas
  • src/types/ - TypeScript type definitions

Testing Structure

  • tests/unit/ - Component tests with mocking
  • tests/integration/ - End-to-end MCP server tests
  • tests/fixtures/ - Test data and mock responses
  • Coverage threshold: 80%

Environment Variables

  • OPENROUTER_API_KEY - Required for OpenRouter API access
  • NODE_ENV - Environment (development, production, test)
  • LOG_LEVEL - Logging verbosity (debug, info, warn, error)
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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nexus CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository adawalli/nexus (23 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 455 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 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.

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