MCP-Quickbase CLAUDE.md

MCP-Quickbase CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from danielbushman/MCP-Quickbase. It costs 787 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Claude Code instructions for the Quickbase MCP server, including its shell, file-naming, architecture, and tool-registration conventions. Quickbase is a business database service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Working on the Quickbase MCP server, especially when adding tools, checking configuration handling, or editing files in its TypeScript codebase.
Why use it?
It documents project-specific exceptions that could otherwise lead to commands, filenames, or tool registrations being placed incorrectly.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

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npx agentmods add instructions/danielbushman/mcp-quickbase/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielbushman/MCP-Quickbase

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Security

Grade A, and why

MCP-Quickbase 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 4d 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.

CLAUDE.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Guidelines for Quickbase MCP Server

######## IMPORTANT! SHELL TARGET: ZSH ######## IMPORTANT! SHELL TARGET: ZSH ######## All commands execute in ZSH. Use POSIX-compatible syntax. Never use bash-only syntax. Avoid: $RANDOM, [[ ]], bash arrays, which. Use: command -v, [ ], grep -E, portable syntax. ######## IMPORTANT! SHELL TARGET: ZSH ######## IMPORTANT! SHELL TARGET: ZSH ########

Naming Conventions

Files use snake_case (create_record.ts), not kebab-case. This deviates from many TypeScript projects.

Architecture Deviations

check_configuration is NOT a BaseTool

The check_configuration tool is registered directly in src/mcp-stdio-server.ts as an inline MCP handler — it does NOT extend BaseTool and is NOT in the tool registry. This is intentional: it must be available even when the Quickbase client fails to initialize (missing credentials). Every other tool goes through BaseTool and the registry.

Tool Registration is NOT in registry.ts

Despite the name, src/tools/registry.ts only defines the ToolRegistryImpl class/singleton. Tools are registered via domain-specific index.ts files (e.g., src/tools/records/index.ts) which are called from src/tools/index.ts:initializeTools(). To add a new tool domain:

  1. Create src/tools/<domain>/index.ts with a register<Domain>Tools(client) function
  2. Call it from src/tools/index.ts:initializeTools()

Dual Server Versions

The MCP server version is hardcoded in both src/mcp-stdio-server.ts and src/mcp/server.ts. Both must be updated when bumping versions (they are independent of package.json).

Quickbase API Pitfalls

See .claude/docs/quickbase-api-pitfalls.md for Quickbase-specific API quirks that cause subtle bugs.

Validation Limitations

paramSchema on tools is JSON Schema, but createMcpZodSchema() in src/utils/validation.ts converts it to Zod with shallow support only. Nested type: "object" becomes z.record(z.unknown()) — nested property validation is NOT enforced at the MCP layer. Invalid nested values pass through and are rejected by the Quickbase API at runtime. This affects groupBy, orderBy, summaryFields, and any other array-of-objects parameters.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 4d ago First seen · 54 lines · 787 tokens per session scan A 5bfd0c72111b

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MCP-Quickbase CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository danielbushman/MCP-Quickbase (15 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 787 tokens to every session, about $0.0039 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 2026-08-30.

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