ato-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ato-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Bigred97/ato-mcp. It costs 1,785 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository-specific instructions for ato-mcp, an MCP server that provides selected Australian Taxation Office and charity datasets from data.gov.au.

In plain words
What is it for?
Developing or reviewing ato-mcp features, curated dataset definitions, data loading, caching, shaping, and server modules.
Why use it?
They explain where the data comes from, how it is licensed, which datasets are supported, and which modules every related implementation must contain.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is Bigred97/ato-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ato-mcp 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 ato-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Bigred97/ato-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/Bigred97/ato-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bigred97/ato-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Opus 5 $0.00892 $0.00892
Sonnet 5 $0.00357 $0.00357
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Security

Grade A, and why

ato-mcp 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

CLAUDE.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ato-mcp

Sister MCP in the Australian Public Data stack. See ../CLAUDE.md for portfolio-wide conventions; this file captures repo-specific details plus the cross-sister discipline.

Source

Source agency Australian Taxation Office (ATO) + ACNC, via data.gov.au
Source URL https://data.gov.au/dataset/?organisation=australian-taxation-office
Data format XLSX (Excel) via CKAN-discovered URLs on data.gov.au
Licence CC-BY 3.0 Australia
Licence URL https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/
Python module ato_mcp
PyPI package ato-mcp
GitHub https://github.com/Bigred97/ato-mcp

Curated datasets (16)

IND_POSTCODE · IND_POSTCODE_MEDIAN · COMPANY_INDUSTRY · CORP_TRANSPARENCY · SUPER_CONTRIB_AGE · ACNC_REGISTER · ATO_OCCUPATION · SBB_BENCHMARKS · SMSF_FUNDS · GST_MONTHLY (historical) · TAX_GAPS · RND_INCENTIVE · ACNC_AIS_FINANCIALS · HELP_DEBT · FOREIGN_OWNERSHIP_AG_LAND · FOREIGN_OWNERSHIP_RESIDENTIAL_BY_COUNTRY

Repo-specific module set

Required (every sister): server.py, models.py, curated.py, client.py, cache.py, shaping.py, data/curated/*.yaml

Repo-specific extras:

  • parsing.py — XLSX reader with header normalisation (\n whitespace stripping)
  • discovery.py — CKAN auto-discovery; each YAML's discovery: block resolves freshest data.gov.au resource URL at fetch time
  • catalog.py — search ranking across 14 curated datasets

Repo-specific gotchas

  • Taxation Statistics releases annually (~June); each YAML's CKAN discovery resolves the latest release without manual URL updates.
  • Column-header normalisation in parsing._normalize_header strips whitespace around embedded \n — ATO inconsistencies vary by release.
  • GST_MONTHLY exercises the transposed-layout code path (months as rows, not columns).

The core 5-tool surface (uniform across sisters — mandatory)

The 5 below are the uniform brand. Additional tools (e.g. top_n, stats) are allowed where the data shape genuinely needs them — they must use the same Annotated[Field] discipline and DataResponse envelope as the core 5.

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 128 lines · 1,785 tokens per session scan A d75b67f4822e

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ato-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Bigred97/ato-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,785 tokens to every session, about $0.0089 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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