openfda-mcp-server: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

openfda-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from cyanheads/openfda-mcp-server. It costs 8,061 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of obsidian-mcp-server AGENTS.md, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for openfda-mcp-server, a server that exposes OpenFDA-related capabilities through MCP, a standard way for AI clients to call tools. They define where to find the design and framework documentation before changing the server.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to decide what work comes next, review the server design, and follow the project's setup and scaffolding workflow when adding tools, resources, prompts, or services.
Why use it?
They reduce the risk of adding tools or changing error handling and configuration in ways that conflict with the project's documented design.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to cyanheads/openfda-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/cyanheads/openfda-mcp-server/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/openfda-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

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Origin 75% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.08061 $0.08061
Opus 5.5 $0.03224 $0.03224
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01612 $0.01612
Haiku 4.5 $0.00806 $0.00806

Measured 9d ago against content hash 588a1b49c3ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openfda-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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

75% identical to obsidian-mcp-server AGENTS.md — 406 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 · 400 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 400 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Protocol

Server: openfda-mcp-server Version: 0.9.1 Framework: @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core ^0.13.18 Engines: Bun ≥1.4.0, Node ≥24.0.0 MCP SDK: @modelcontextprotocol/server ^2.4.0 (via the framework) Zod: ^4.6.7

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.

Design doc: docs/design.md is the source of truth for the tool surface, error handling, config, and implementation notes. Read it before adding or modifying tools.


What's Next?

When the user asks what to do next, what's left, or needs direction, suggest relevant options based on the current project state:

  1. Re-run the setup skill — ensures CLAUDE.md, skills, structure, and metadata are populated and up to date with the current codebase
  2. Run the design-mcp-server skill — if the tool/resource surface hasn't been mapped yet, work through domain design
  3. Add tools/resources/prompts — scaffold new definitions using the add-tool, add-app-tool, add-resource, add-prompt skills
  4. Add services — scaffold domain service integrations using the add-service skill
  5. Add tests — scaffold tests for existing definitions using the add-test skill
  6. Field-test definitions — exercise tools/resources/prompts with real inputs using the field-test skill, get a report of issues and pain points
  7. Run devcheck — lint, format, typecheck, and security audit
  8. Run the security-pass skill — audit handlers for MCP-specific security gaps: output injection, scope blast radius, input sinks, tenant isolation
  9. Run the polish-docs-meta skill — finalize README, CHANGELOG, metadata, and agent protocol for shipping
  10. Run the maintenance skill — investigate changelogs, adopt upstream changes, and sync skills after bun update --latest

Read the full file on GitHub · 400 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.

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openfda-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/openfda-mcp-server (4 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 8,061 tokens to every session, about $0.0322 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 75% identical to obsidian-mcp-server AGENTS.md, differing in 406 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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