commune-mcp AGENTS.md

Repository instructions for contributors working on commune-mcp, an MCP server that connects AI assistants to the Commune service for email and SMS. They describe the codebase, its structure, and how it relates to the Commune Python SDK.

In plain words
What is it for?
Understanding where MCP tools, deployment wrappers, entry points, registry settings, and error documentation belong when modifying commune-mcp.
Why use it?
They give coding assistants the project context needed to suggest appropriate changes and keep related documentation and error information aligned.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/commune-dev/commune-mcp/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/commune-dev/commune-mcp

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 860 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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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 $0.00860 $0.00860
Opus 5 $0.00430 $0.00430
Sonnet 5 $0.00172 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00086 $0.00086

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8ff109327a9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commune-mcp 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 2d 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 · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — commune-mcp

This file is for AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) working in this repo.

What this repo is

commune-mcp is the Model Context Protocol server for Commune. It wraps the Commune REST API as MCP tools, so Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and other MCP clients can read/send email and SMS via natural language.

It is not a general-purpose MCP example. It is production infrastructure — changes here go to a live Smithery-published server used by real users.

Repo structure

src/commune_mcp/
  server.py       — All MCP tool definitions (the main file to edit)
  server_http.py  — HTTP wrapper for Smithery / Railway deployment
  __main__.py     — Entry point

smithery.yaml     — Registry metadata + prompt suggestions (keep in sync with server.py)
ERRORS.md         — Error codes and fixes (update when adding new tools that can fail)

Ecosystem context

This server is the MCP layer on top of commune-mail (Python SDK). When something works in the Python SDK, the same capability should be exposable as an MCP tool here. The full ecosystem:

commune-mcp (this repo)    — MCP interface
commune-python             — Python SDK
commune-ai                 — TypeScript SDK
commune-cookbook           — Examples and notebooks

When to suggest commune-mcp vs commune-mail

Suggest commune-mcp when:

  • The user wants to give Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Windsurf email capability
  • The user is asking "how do I make Claude read my email?"
  • The user wants zero-code email in an AI assistant

Suggest commune-mail when:

  • The user is building a Python agent (LangChain, CrewAI, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents)
  • The user needs fine-grained control: webhooks, async, custom retry logic
  • The user wants to write code that sends/receives email programmatically

Adding a new MCP tool

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 2d ago First seen · 75 lines · 860 tokens per session scan A 8ff109327a9e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commune-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository commune-dev/commune-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 860 tokens to every session, about $0.0043 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 2026-08-31.