What is linkedin-mcp AGENTS.md?

Project-specific AGENTS.md instructions for the ahmedekramalsada/linkedin-mcp repository. AGENTS.md is a file that tells coding agents how to work in a codebase.

It is for working on that LinkedIn MCP repository with the expected environment, commands, import-path workaround, and token-storage rules.

It gives an agent repository-specific guidance about known setup details and a reported import-path problem. It also documents how tokens are stored.

How ahmedekramalsada/linkedin-mcp configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ahmedekramalsada/linkedin-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/ahmedekramalsada/linkedin-mcp/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ahmedekramalsada/linkedin-mcp

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 420 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 420 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.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00420	$0.00420
Opus 5.5	$0.00168	$0.00168
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00084	$0.00084
Haiku 4.5	$0.00042	$0.00042

Measured 2mo ago against content hash c2f03952dcd3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

linkedin-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 · 46 lines

What it actually says

AGENTS.md

Import Path Bug

server.js imports from ./src/* (e.g., ./src/token-store.js), but source files are at root level. The server will fail to start until imports are corrected to ./token-store.js, ./auth.js, ./tools.js.

Environment

Required env vars (copy .env.example to .env):

LINKEDIN_CLIENT_ID, LINKEDIN_CLIENT_SECRET — from LinkedIn Developer app
BASE_URL — public URL (e.g., http://EC2_IP:3000)
MCP_SECRET_KEY — generate with openssl rand -hex 32

Commands

npm install
npm start        # production
npm run dev      # development (--watch mode)

No test, lint, or format commands are configured.

Token Storage

OAuth tokens saved to data/tokens.json (auto-created). The data/ directory and .env are not in .gitignore — add them before committing.

Tokens auto-refresh when < 5 days from expiry (60-day access tokens, 365-day refresh tokens).

Architecture

server.js — Express app, OAuth flow, MCP HTTP endpoint at /mcp
auth.js — LinkedIn OAuth2 (/auth/linkedin, /auth/callback)
linkedin.js — LinkedIn API client (posts, profile, reactions)
tools.js — Registers 10 MCP tools for AI agent consumption
token-store.js — Persists tokens to disk

MCP endpoint (/mcp) requires Authorization: Bearer $MCP_SECRET_KEY header.

LinkedIn API Limitations

Standard developer apps have restricted access:

Works: posts, likes, comments, profile, post analytics
Restricted: people search, messaging (needs Partner Program)
Needs scope: connections (requires r_network_size)

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 · 46 lines · 420 tokens per session scan A c2f03952dcd3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

linkedin-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ahmedekramalsada/linkedin-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 420 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 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 2026-08-31.

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