What is mcp-manager CLAUDE.md?

Project instructions for Brightwing MCP Manager, a desktop app that installs, authenticates, and connects MCP servers to AI coding tools. MCP is a standard way for AI tools to use external services and data.

Building and testing the React frontend and Rust backend, creating a local desktop app, and preparing a signed release.

They document the project structure, required build commands, tests, signing steps, and dependencies that must exist before the app can be built.

How Brightwing-Systems-LLC/mcp-manager configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Brightwing-Systems-LLC/mcp-manager. 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/Brightwing-Systems-LLC/mcp-manager/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Brightwing-Systems-LLC/mcp-manager

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 865 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 865 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan C 1 finding. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00865	$0.00865
Opus 5.5	$0.00346	$0.00346
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00173	$0.00173
Haiku 4.5	$0.00086	$0.00086

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 058893d8ebc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

mcp-manager CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf "/Applications/Brightwing MCP Manager.app"

CLAUDE.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — Instructions for AI agents working on this project

Project Overview

Brightwing MCP Manager is a Tauri v2 desktop app (Rust backend + React/TypeScript frontend) that manages MCP server installations, authentication, and proxying across AI tools (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, Codex, etc.).

Build & Test

# Frontend only
npm run build

# Rust check + tests
cd src-tauri && cargo check && cargo test

# Full app build (local, unsigned)
./build-app.sh

# Full app build with updater signing
TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY="$(cat ~/.tauri/brightwing.key)" TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD="" npm run tauri build

# Install to /Applications (macOS)
rm -rf "/Applications/Brightwing MCP Manager.app"
cp -R "src-tauri/target/release/bundle/macos/Brightwing MCP Manager.app" /Applications/

Note: Sidecar binaries (brightwing-authd, brightwing-proxy, bw) must exist in src-tauri/binaries/ with target-triple suffixes before cargo check or tauri build will work. build-app.sh handles this automatically. In CI, placeholders are created first.

Release Process

To ship a new version:

Bump version in all four places:
- src-tauri/tauri.conf.json → "version"
- src-tauri/Cargo.toml → version
- package.json → "version"
- src/components/Navigation.tsx → APP_VERSION
- src/components/About.tsx → version string
Commit the version bump — do NOT use [skip ci] in the message, because GitHub applies it to all workflows triggered by that commit, including the tag-triggered build:
```
git commit -m "Bump to vX.Y.Z"
```

Tag and push:

git tag v<VERSION>
git push origin main --tags

The v* tag triggers .github/workflows/build.yml which:
- Builds for macOS (arm64 + x64), Windows, Linux
- Signs updater artifacts with Ed25519 key
- Creates a draft GitHub Release with .dmg, .app.tar.gz, .sig, and latest.json
Publish the draft release on GitHub to make it live

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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.

2mo ago First seen · 81 lines · 865 tokens per session scan C 058893d8ebc5

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mcp-manager CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Brightwing-Systems-LLC/mcp-manager (191 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 865 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Building agents

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