imf-mcp-server: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

imf-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from cyanheads/imf-mcp-server. It costs 6,545 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of obsidian-mcp-server AGENTS.md, Apache-2.0.

A set of developer instructions for the imf-mcp-server, which provides access to the IMF’s public economic data portal. It documents the server’s tools, data-query workflow, country-code format, and handling of large results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing, extending, or troubleshooting the IMF data MCP server and its dataset-query tools.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent the rules needed to query the server correctly, such as using three-letter country codes and the required query order. It also explains how to inspect large returned datasets.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

This is cyanheads/imf-mcp-server's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on imf-mcp-server 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 imf-mcp-server configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to cyanheads/imf-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.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/imf-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

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Grade A, and why

imf-mcp-server 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.

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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.

Origin

This is a copy

80% identical to obsidian-mcp-server AGENTS.md — 359 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

CLAUDE.md · 420 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 420 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Developer Protocol

Server: imf-mcp-server Version: 0.4.1 Framework: @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core ^0.12.3 Engines: Bun ≥1.3.0, Node ≥24.0.0 MCP SDK: @modelcontextprotocol/server ^2.0.0 Zod: ^4.4.3

Read the framework docs first: node_modules/@cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/CLAUDE.md contains the full API reference — builders, Context, error codes, exports, patterns. This file covers server-specific conventions only.


Server Overview

imf-mcp-server wraps the IMF SDMX 3.0 public portal. No API key required.

Surface area: 6 tools, 1 resource, 0 prompts.

Workflow: imf_list_databasesimf_get_databaseimf_query_dataset. Large result sets spill to DataCanvas — imf_dataframe_describe then imf_dataframe_query for SQL access.

Key constraints:

  • Country codes are ISO 3-letter (USA, GBR, DEU — not US, GB, DE)
  • Key format is dot-separated DSD dimension order (e.g. USA.NGDP_RPCH.A for WEO)
  • Canvas spill requires CANVAS_PROVIDER_TYPE=duckdb

Core Rules

  • Logic throws, framework catches. Tool/resource handlers are pure — throw on failure, no try/catch. Plain Error is fine; the framework catches, classifies, and formats. Use error factories (notFound(), validationError(), etc.) when the error code matters.
  • Use ctx.log for request-scoped logging. No console calls.
  • Use ctx.state for tenant-scoped storage. Never access persistence directly.
  • Need input the caller didn't supply? return ctx.requestInput(...) and read ctx.inputs when the handler is re-entered. Never await for user input mid-handler.
  • Secrets in env vars only — never hardcoded.
  • Close the loop on issues. When implementing work tracked by a GitHub issue, comment on the issue with what landed and close it. Do both — a comment without a close leaves stale issues open; a close without a comment leaves no record of what shipped. The comment is for future readers — state the concrete changes, not the conversation that produced them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 420 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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