MCPControl: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

MCPControl CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from claude-did-this/MCPControl. It costs 566 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project guide for MCPControl, a tool that connects Claude to MCP services. It lists its build, code-checking, testing, and secure HTTPS/TLS run commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build MCPControl, format and lint its TypeScript and JavaScript, run Vitest or end-to-end tests, check coverage, and start secure server connections.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent the project’s standard commands and rules in one place, reducing guesswork when changing or checking the code.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is claude-did-this/MCPControl's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on MCPControl 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 MCPControl configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to claude-did-this/MCPControl. 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/claude-did-this/MCPControl/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/claude-did-this/MCPControl

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.00566 $0.00566
Opus 5 $0.00283 $0.00283
Sonnet 5 $0.00113 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00057 $0.00057

Measured 7d ago against content hash 02bc2344ba6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

MCPControl 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 7d 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 · 35 lines

What it actually says

MCPControl - Development Guide

Build & Test Commands

  • Build: pwsh.exe -c "npm run build" - Compiles TypeScript to JavaScript
  • Lint: pwsh.exe -c "npm run lint" - Runs ESLint to check code quality (TS and JS)
  • Format: pwsh.exe -c "npm run format" - Runs Prettier to format code
  • Format Check: pwsh.exe -c "npm run format:check" - Checks if files are properly formatted
  • Test: pwsh.exe -c "npm run test" - Runs all Vitest tests
  • Run single test: pwsh.exe -c "npm run test -- tools/keyboard.test.ts" or pwsh.exe -c "npm run test -- -t \"specific test name\""
  • Watch tests: pwsh.exe -c "npm run test:watch" - Runs tests in watch mode
  • Coverage: pwsh.exe -c "npm run test:coverage" - Generates test coverage report
  • E2E Test: cd test && ./e2e-test.sh [iterations] - Runs end-to-end tests with Claude and MCPControl

Running with HTTPS/TLS

MCPControl supports HTTPS for secure SSE connections (mandatory per MCP spec for production):

  • node build/index.js --sse --https --cert /path/to/cert.pem --key /path/to/key.pem
  • Default HTTPS port is still 3232 (use --port to change)
  • Both --cert and --key are required when using --https

Note: MCP Servers are typically launched by the Client as a subprocess.

Code Style Guidelines

  • Imports: Use ES module syntax with named imports
  • Types: Define TypeScript interfaces for inputs/outputs in types/ directory
  • Error Handling: Use try/catch with standardized response objects
  • Naming: camelCase for variables/functions, PascalCase for interfaces
  • Functions: Keep functions small and focused on single responsibility
  • Comments: Add JSDoc comments for public APIs
  • Testing:
    • Unit tests: Place in same directory as implementation with .test.ts suffix
    • E2E tests: Added to the test/ directory
  • Formatting: Code is formatted using Prettier (pre-commit hooks will run automatically)
  • Error Responses: Return { success: false, message: string } for errors
  • Success Responses: Return { success: true, data?: any } for success
  • Linting: Both TypeScript and JavaScript files are linted with ESLint
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. 7d ago First seen · 35 lines · 566 tokens per session scan A 02bc2344ba6a

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MCPControl CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository claude-did-this/MCPControl (329 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 566 tokens to every session, about $0.0028 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 2026-08-30.

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