What is inkscape-mcp-server AGENTS.md?

Repository instructions for contributors and coding agents working on inkscape-mcp-server, a local bridge to Inkscape.

Use them when modifying the server, adding a tool, or checking whether an Inkscape operation really worked.

They explain the project structure and the checks needed before changing or debugging it.

How code-and-crypto/inkscape-mcp-server configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to code-and-crypto/inkscape-mcp-server. 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/code-and-crypto/inkscape-mcp-server/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/code-and-crypto/inkscape-mcp-server

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 1,204 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,204 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01204	$0.01204
Opus 5.5	$0.00482	$0.00482
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00241	$0.00241
Haiku 4.5	$0.00120	$0.00120

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 78dce2398f1d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inkscape-mcp-server AGENTS.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.

AGENTS.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Guidance for coding agents and contributors working in this repository. Read this before changing anything.

What this is

inkscape-mcp-server is a dependency-free MCP server for Inkscape 1.2+. Standard library only, no pip install, no FastMCP, no pydantic. 23 tools, ~5,600 lines of Python, speaking MCP over stdio.

Entry point: server.py, bootstrap only; everything lives in inkscape_mcp/
Run it: python server.py (stdio) · python server.py --check (self-test)
Health check: server_info operation="selftest" before debugging anything

The one rule that matters

Verify against the running Inkscape binary. Never trust the action registry, the documentation, or the source.

This project exists because the other Inkscape MCP servers call actions that do not exist, and Inkscape exits 0 anyway, so they report success while doing nothing. Every capability here was confirmed by running it and inspecting the output file.

data/inkscape_actions.json is extracted from the Inkscape source and lists 348 actions. It is an index, not a contract: fit-canvas-to-drawing is in it, is marked app-scoped, and is absent from the shipped 1.4.2 binary entirely. See docs/inkscape-findings.md for every verified trap.

When you add a capability:

Run the action chain by hand against a real file first.
Check the output file, not the exit code.
If it silently does nothing, do it in an engine instead and say so in the docstring.
Add a check to server_info operation="selftest" if it is core.

Architecture in one paragraph

Layered so each layer can be replaced without disturbing the others: protocol.py (MCP framing, knows nothing about Inkscape) → toolkit.py (the @tool registry, knows nothing about what tools do) → tools/ (thin adapters, grouped by domain) → runner.py (the only place Inkscape is invoked, behind a swappable Backend) and engines/ (pure Python that does the work, importable and testable alone). Full picture in docs/architecture.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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 Changed · +12 tokens per session 78dce2398f1d
2mo ago First seen · 99 lines · 1,192 tokens per session scan A ea869a96e4d4

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inkscape-mcp-server AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository code-and-crypto/inkscape-mcp-server (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,204 tokens to every session, about $0.0048 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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