What is keynote-mcp CLAUDE.md?

Instructions for a server that controls Apple Keynote through AppleScript, a macOS automation technology.

They are for developing and operating the Keynote server, including presentations, slides, text, images, lists, code blocks, exports, and image fetching.

They explain how the server works, how to run it, how its files are organized, and when it must be restarted after changes.

How ByAxe/keynote-mcp configures Claude Code

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When invoked 1,312 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.

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01312	$0.01312
Opus 5.5	$0.00525	$0.00525
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00262	$0.00262
Haiku 4.5	$0.00131	$0.00131

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Security

Grade A, and why

keynote-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 2mo 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.

CLAUDE.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — keynote-mcp

What this is

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that controls Apple Keynote via AppleScript. It exposes tools for creating presentations, managing slides, adding content (text, images, lists, code blocks), exporting, and fetching images from Unsplash.

How to run

cd /Users/alekseilitvinau/src/keynote-mcp
.venv/bin/python -m keynote_mcp

Registered in Claude Code as:

keynote-mcp: bash -c cd /Users/alekseilitvinau/src/keynote-mcp && .venv/bin/python -m keynote_mcp

After any code changes, the MCP server must be restarted (exit/re-enter the Claude Code session or use /mcp to restart).

Project structure

src/
  keynote_mcp/             — Installable Python package
    __init__.py            — Package version
    __main__.py            — python -m keynote_mcp entry point
    server.py              — Main MCP server: registers handlers, routes tool calls
    tools/
      presentation.py      — create/open/save/close/list presentations, themes, resolution
      slide.py             — add/delete/duplicate/move slides, layouts
      content.py           — add text boxes (font/color)/titles/subtitles/lists/code (color)/
                             quotes/images/shapes (opacity), edit/delete/move/resize elements,
                             set_element_opacity, clear_slide, speaker notes, get_slide_content,
                             build-in animations (add_build_in/remove_build_in via UI scripting)
      export.py            — screenshot slides, export PDF
      unsplash.py          — search/add Unsplash images (requires UNSPLASH_KEY env var)
    utils/
      applescript_runner.py — Executes AppleScript via osascript subprocess (30s timeout)
      error_handler.py     — Exception hierarchy + validation functions
    applescript/
      keynote_base.applescript   — Base helpers (get doc reference)
      presentation.applescript   — Presentation operations
      slide.applescript          — Slide operations
      content.applescript        — Content manipulation (text, images, lists)
      export.applescript         — Export/screenshot operations
tests/                     — Test scaffolding (unit/ and integration/)

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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.

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keynote-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ByAxe/keynote-mcp (6 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,312 tokens to every session, about $0.0052 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It comes from a forked repository.

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