mcp-compressor AGENTS.md

mcp-compressor AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from atlassian-labs/mcp-compressor. It costs 2,100 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository guidance for coding agents working on mcp-compressor, a tool that reduces how much MCP server information an AI model receives at once. It covers the project's purpose, layout, public interfaces, and architecture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when modifying mcp-compressor, its command-line tool, SDKs, generated clients, authentication, proxy server, or tool-compression code.
Why use it?
It gives agents the project context they need before changing code, reducing confusion about where features belong and how the Rust, Python, and TypeScript parts fit together.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atlassian-labs/mcp-compressor

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Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-compressor 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 5d 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 · 240 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Guidance for coding agents working in this repository.

Project purpose

mcp-compressor helps agents use large MCP servers without sending every backend tool description and schema to the model up front. It provides:

  • a Rust CLI MCP proxy (mcp-compressor),
  • Rust, Python, and TypeScript SDKs,
  • generated CLI/Python/TypeScript clients,
  • Just Bash integration,
  • remote streamable HTTP backend support,
  • OAuth and dynamic auth-provider support,
  • local TypeScript tool compression for AI SDK-style tools.

The implementation is Rust-first. Python and TypeScript bindings should stay thin and delegate core behavior to Rust whenever practical.

Repository layout

  • crates/mcp-compressor/ — public Rust crate and installable mcp-compressor binary.
  • crates/mcp-compressor-core/ — core Rust implementation: compression, config parsing, MCP runtime, proxy server, OAuth, generated clients, SDK helpers, and FFI DTOs.
  • crates/mcp-compressor-python/ — PyO3 extension crate backing the Python package.
  • crates/mcp-compressor-node/ — napi-rs native addon backing the TypeScript package.
  • python/mcp-compressor/ — public Python package. Public import is mcp_compressor.
  • typescript/ — public TypeScript package @atlassian/mcp-compressor.
  • docs/ — public documentation site.
  • tests/ — repository-level Python integration and real-world tests.

Public API names

Do not leak implementation/migration names into public docs or examples.

Use:

  • Python package/import: mcp-compressor / mcp_compressor
  • TypeScript package: @atlassian/mcp-compressor
  • Rust crate: mcp-compressor / mcp_compressor
  • CLI: mcp-compressor

Avoid public references to old or internal names such as mcp-compressor-rust, mcp_compressor_rust, or mcp-compressor-core unless you are editing explicitly internal/development documentation.

Run this guard after public API/doc changes:

uv run python scripts/check_public_api_names.py

Core architecture principles

Read the full file on GitHub · 240 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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mcp-compressor AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository atlassian-labs/mcp-compressor (118 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,100 tokens to every session, about $0.0105 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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