mcp_shell_tools CLAUDE.md

A project instruction file for mcp_shell_tools, a local server that gives an AI agent controlled tools for files, text search, editing, and shell commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide development and maintenance of the Python-based MCP server and its filesystem, editor, search, and shell tools.
Why use it?
It gives the agent shared project conventions, structure, technology details, and security rules to follow while working.

Instructions file

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/cuber-it/mcp_shell_tools/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cuber-it/mcp_shell_tools
Per session 1,152 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,152 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.01152 $0.01152
Opus 5 $0.00576 $0.00576
Sonnet 5 $0.00230 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00115 $0.00115

Measured 2d ago against content hash a07b3642688b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

mcp_shell_tools 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 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

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

- BLOCKED_PATTERNS in config.py (rm -rf /, dd, mkfs, fork bombs, etc.)
CLAUDE.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.

mcp_shell_tools

Übersicht

MCP-Server für lokale Entwicklungsarbeit. 24 Tools, zwei Transports (stdio + Streamable HTTP), Session-Persistenz, Security-Layer, OAuth. Produktiv im Einsatz mit Claude Desktop, claude.ai und ChatGPT.

Version: 2.1.0 Sprache: Python 3.10+ MCP SDK: mcp >= 1.26.0 Lizenz: MIT Repo: github.com/cuber-it/mcp_shell_tools

Tech Stack

  • Python, FastMCP (mcp SDK)
  • httpx (HTTP-Client für Registry)
  • pydantic (Validierung)
  • mcp-oauth (optional, für Remote-Zugriff)
  • pytest + pytest-asyncio (Tests)

Projektstruktur

code/
├── main.py              → CLI Entry-Point (serve --http PORT)
├── server.py            → FastMCP Setup, Tool-Registration, Auto-Log
├── config.py            → Konstanten, Security-Patterns (BLOCKED_PATTERNS)
├── state.py             → Working Directory, Custom ENV
├── health_server.py     → /health + /health/ready Endpoint
├── heinzel_integration.py → Registry Self-Registration (optional)
├── tools/
│   ├── filesystem.py    → 9 Tools (read, write, list, glob, delete, move, copy, append, tree)
│   ├── editor.py        → str_replace, diff_preview
│   ├── search.py        → grep (Text + Regex)
│   ├── shell.py         → shell_exec + env + set_env (mit Process-Isolation)
│   ├── project.py       → cd, cwd, project_init (CLAUDE.md)
│   ├── memory.py        → memory_add/show/clear (note, decision, question, todo)
│   ├── session.py       → session_save/resume/list (JSON-Persistenz)
│   └── commands.py      → Slash-Kommandos (/verbose, /log, /transcript, /status)
├── persistence/
│   ├── models.py        → SessionData, MemoryEntry (dataclasses)
│   └── session_manager.py → JSON-basierte Persistenz (~/.mcp_shell_tools/)
└── utils/
    ├── logging.py       → Konfiguriertes Logging
    ├── output.py        → Output-Truncation (MAX_OUTPUT_BYTES)
    └── paths.py         → Pfad-Utilities

Konventionen

  • Code-Style: PEP8, max-line-length=120, flake8 clean
  • Tests: pytest, 70 Tests, alle async via pytest-asyncio
  • Imports: Absolute (from code.tools.shell import ...)
  • Tool-Signatur: Annotated[Type, Field(description=...)] für MCP-Schema
  • Git: Einzeilige Commits, Details in CHANGELOG.md
  • Kein Verzeichnis src/ — historisch code/, Umbenennung TODO

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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 99 lines · 1,152 tokens per session scan C a07b3642688b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mcp_shell_tools CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cuber-it/mcp_shell_tools (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,152 tokens to every session, about $0.0058 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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