skyglance-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

skyglance-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from darshjoshi/skyglance-mcp. It costs 1,700 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for SkyGlance MCP, a server that answers questions about aircraft overhead, flights, plane identities, and previous flyovers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when modifying SkyGlance’s aircraft tools, data feeds, geometry calculations, weather logic, enrichment sources, polling, or SQLite history.
Why use it?
They give contributors the project’s architecture and rules so changes work with its aircraft feeds, calculations, weather checks, enrichment, and history storage.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

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Security

Grade A, and why

skyglance-mcp 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.

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 · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — SkyGlance MCP

What This Is

An MCP server that answers questions about aircraft: what's overhead right now and where to look, what a given plane is, where a flight is, and what has passed over before. 24 tools, free data, no API keys.

Sibling project: skyglance-mac — same data, macOS menu bar app. Its docs/ are the research this is built on and are worth reading before changing anything here: FREE-STACK.md, OVERHEAD-DETECTION.md, COVERAGE-AND-COST.md.

Architecture

  • src/skyglance/server.py — MCP tool definitions. Thin: validate, delegate, format.
  • src/skyglance/feeds.py — three ADS-B feeds queried in parallel and merged. Circuit breakers, rate-slot reservation, coordinate coarsening, last-good snapshot.
  • src/skyglance/geometry.py — elevation, bearing, slant range, closest point of approach.
  • src/skyglance/enrich.py — adsbdb → hexdb → planespotters, cached forever.
  • src/skyglance/interest.py — scoring: which aircraft is worth mentioning.
  • src/skyglance/weather.py — Open-Meteo, the "can you actually see it" gate.
  • src/skyglance/store.py — SQLite history: aircraft, passes, enrichment cache.
  • src/skyglance/poller.py — background poller + single-instance lock.
  • src/skyglance/traces.py — ~24h flight paths from globe.adsb.lol/data/traces. Reduction is the whole job here: a raw trace is ~2,600 points / 450 KB, which is unusable in a context window. It gets segmented into legs and downsampled to PATH_SAMPLES points each. Don't raise that without checking the output size.
  • src/skyglance/airports.py — ICAO lookup plus observed departing/arriving/on-ground classification by climb rate. Airport records are cached forever; airports don't move.
  • src/skyglance/airport_data.py — ~1,150 major airports embedded from OurAirports (public domain). Generated by tools/build_airports.py; don't hand-edit.
  • src/skyglance/world.py — the global sweep. adsb.lol's point query has no radius cap, so a 12,000 nm radius returns ~6,000 aircraft worldwide in ~1.3s. That single response is ~3.7 MB from volunteers, so it is fetched at most once per 60 seconds, process-wide, shared between concurrent callers, and served from cache in between. Never call it to answer something a 60 nm circle can answer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 7d ago First seen · 124 lines · 1,700 tokens per session scan A 3f4bff6980ab

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skyglance-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository darshjoshi/skyglance-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,700 tokens to every session, about $0.0085 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.

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