idea-mcp-control: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

idea-mcp-control CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from brannow/idea-mcp-control. It costs 2,600 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Instructions for a PhpStorm plugin that lets an AI agent use the IDE debugger with Xdebug, a PHP debugging system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting breakpoints, stepping through PHP code, inspecting variables, and evaluating expressions while debugging.
Why use it?
It explains how the plugin is organised and how debugging actions should be used within the project.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 2,600 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,600 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.02600 $0.02600
Opus 5.5 $0.01040 $0.01040
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00520 $0.00520
Haiku 4.5 $0.00260 $0.00260

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 221fe26a26d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-mcp-control 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 · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PhpStorm MCP Plugin

What This Is

A PhpStorm plugin that acts as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, exposing the IDE's debugging features to AI agents. The agent can set breakpoints, step through code, inspect variables, evaluate expressions — the same workflow a human developer uses with xdebug.

Project Structure

phpstorm-mcp/
├── src/main/kotlin/com/github/brannow/phpstormmcp/     # Plugin source (Kotlin)
├── src/main/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml              # Plugin configuration
├── roadmap.md                                          # Project Roadmap (todo list)
├── build.gradle.kts                                    # Gradle build (IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin 2.x)
├── gradle.properties                                   # Build target: PhpStorm 2026.1.3 (compat down to 2025.3)
├── internal/                                           # Documentation & reference (not shipped with plugin)
│   ├── INDEX.md                                        # ** START HERE ** — master documentation index
│   ├── docs/                                           # Organized documentation
│   │   ├── 03-debugger-api/                            # XDebugger framework docs (primary focus)
│   │   ├── 04-mcp-sdk/                                 # MCP Kotlin/Java SDK overviews
│   │   └── ...                                         # See INDEX.md for full list
│   ├── tools/                                          # Tool design specifications
│   │   └── ToolDesign.md                               # Final tool specs (13 tools, snapshot concept)
│   └── reference-Repository/                           # Cloned reference repos
│       ├── intellij-community/                         # IntelliJ Platform source (xdebugger-api, xdebugger-impl)
│       ├── intellij-sdk-code-samples/                  # Official plugin examples
│       ├── kotlin-sdk/                                 # MCP Kotlin SDK (our primary SDK)
│       └── java-sdk/                                   # MCP Java SDK (reference only)

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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. 2mo ago First seen · 166 lines · 2,600 tokens per session scan A 221fe26a26d8

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idea-mcp-control CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository brannow/idea-mcp-control (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,600 tokens to every session, about $0.0104 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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