mcp-exec: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

mcp-exec CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from bensons/mcp-exec. It costs 1,662 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for working on bensons/mcp-exec, including how to handle pull-request review comments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing or responding to pull-request feedback in that repository.
Why use it?
It tells the coding agent to reproduce reported problems, judge them using observed results, fix valid issues, push changes to the pull-request branch, and reply in the discussion.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Codex.

This is bensons/mcp-exec's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on mcp-exec itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything mcp-exec configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to bensons/mcp-exec. 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/bensons/mcp-exec/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bensons/mcp-exec

Made for: Claude Code.

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Measured 2mo ago against content hash 7033b5d909c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

mcp-exec 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 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.

CLAUDE.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — mcp-exec

Project-specific working agreements. These are binding for any agent working in this repo.

Handling pull request review feedback

This applies to feedback from human reviewers and from automated reviewers (Codex, Copilot, etc.) alike. Automated reviewers are not authoritative — they are frequently right and occasionally wrong, so every finding gets judged on the evidence, never accepted or dismissed on the strength of who filed it.

For every review thread on a PR you own, do all of the following:

1. Reproduce before you judge

Do not reason about the claim from the diff alone. Run the code and observe the behavior the reviewer describes — typically by comparing the PR build against the merge base:

node -e 'const {Thing} = require("./dist/…"); /* exercise the claim */'
node -e 'const {Thing} = require("/path/to/main/checkout/dist/…"); /* same */'

Capture the actual output. It decides whether you fix, and it is the evidence you quote back to the reviewer. A finding you cannot reproduce is a finding you must not silently "fix".

2. Fix, and push to the PR branch

If the finding is valid, fix it on the same branch and push. Add a regression test that fails without the fix — the test belongs with the fix, in the same commit. Keep the commit message specific about what was reported and what changed.

If fixing the reported problem reveals the same defect one level deeper, fix that too and say so in your reply; do not quietly expand beyond that.

3. Reply in the thread, with details

Reply to the thread itself (not a top-level PR comment) via:

gh api -X POST repos/<owner>/<repo>/pulls/<pr>/comments/<comment_id>/replies -F [email protected]

The reply must state:

  • the commit SHA that addresses it,
  • the reproduction you ran and its actual output,
  • what changed and why that resolves the finding,
  • which test now covers it,
  • any deliberate deviation from what the reviewer proposed, and the reasoning.

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

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What this file has done since we first saw it

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mcp-exec CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bensons/mcp-exec (0 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,662 tokens to every session, about $0.0066 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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