bookshelf-mcp AGENTS.md

bookshelf-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from arr-mcps/bookshelf-mcp. It costs 1,385 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instruction files for a server that exposes Bookshelf’s REST API as AI tools. Bookshelf is a Readarr-based service for managing authors, books, files, series, downloads, and related library data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Developing, testing, and maintaining the Bookshelf MCP server and its read and write operations.
Why use it?
They define how the server is tested, authenticated, and organised, while limiting the tool list so its API description does not overwhelm the assistant.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arr-mcps/bookshelf-mcp

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Grade A, and why

bookshelf-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 4d ago.

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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 · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — bookshelf-mcp

MCP server exposing Bookshelf's v1 REST API (Readarr fork, OpenAPI 3.0.1) as tools so an LLM can read and manage a Bookshelf instance: authors, books, book files, editions, series, queue, history, indexers, import lists, custom formats, tags, commands, system status, and more. Full surface — reads and writes. Uses FastMCP, uv for deps.

Exposed as 15 resource-scoped portmanteau tools, not one tool per endpoint — see "Tool registry and the spec" below. A prior version registered all 221 endpoints individually; that blew the MCP context budget (~221 tools × ~250 tokens ≈ 55k tokens just for this one server) and has been retired.

Testing

  • Offline suite: make test (or uv run pytest)
  • Live integration (needs BOOKSHELF_URL/BOOKSHELF_API_KEY): make test-integration
    • GET endpoints run against the live instance.
    • POST/PUT/DELETE only run when BOOKSHELF_WRITE_TESTS=1 (safe create→update→delete cycles against a scratch tag, then cleanup). Never point write tests at a production library.

Tool registry and the spec

  • _TOOL_REGISTRY in bookshelf_mcp.py is generated from the vendored spec at tests/data/bookshelf_openapi.json by scripts/generate_registry.py. It lists every JSON-producing endpoint under /api/v1 plus GET /ping.
  • Excluded on purpose: /login, /logout, /api (swagger metadata), static web routes, the .ics calendar feed, and binary/text endpoints (media covers, raw log files) — _req JSON-decodes every response.
  • To add a tool or refresh coverage, edit scripts/generate_registry.py (add NAME_OVERRIDES/DOC_OVERRIDES) and regenerate from the vendored spec, then re-run the tests. Do not hand-edit the registry.
  • Endpoint function naming (internal, no longer an MCP tool name): bookshelf_<verb>_<resource> derived from path + method (e.g. bookshelf_list_author, bookshelf_create_author, bookshelf_delete_author, bookshelf_run_command). Overrides for flagship/action endpoints live in the authoring script.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Changes

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bookshelf-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository arr-mcps/bookshelf-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,385 tokens to every session, about $0.0069 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 2026-08-31.

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