music-assistant-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

music-assistant-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from devjourney/music-assistant-mcp. It costs 242 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for a music-control MCP server that connects to Music Assistant, a system for searching and playing music across a personal library.

In plain words
What is it for?
Developing or running tools for music search, libraries, playback, queues, and playlists through a Music Assistant server.
Why use it?
They show an agent where the server code lives, how its tools are organized, and which settings are needed to run it.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

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

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What it actually says

MusicAssistantMCP

MCP server wrapping music-assistant-client via FastMCP.

Project Structure

  • src/music_assistant_mcp/server.py - FastMCP instance, lifespan, entry point
  • src/music_assistant_mcp/connection.py - Env var parsing, auth config
  • src/music_assistant_mcp/serializers.py - MA model → dict converters
  • src/music_assistant_mcp/tools/ - Tool modules (search, library, playback, queue, playlists)
  • src/music_assistant_mcp/resources.py - MCP resources

Key Patterns

  • Each tool module has a register(mcp) function that decorates tools onto the FastMCP instance
  • Tools get the MA client from ctx.request_context.lifespan_context["client"]
  • All tools return JSON strings
  • The lifespan context manager handles connection/auth lifecycle
  • Serializers use getattr with fallbacks to handle both full model objects and ItemMapping lightweight refs

Running

MA_SERVER_URL=http://host:8095 MA_TOKEN=xxx music-assistant-mcp
Changes

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music-assistant-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository devjourney/music-assistant-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 242 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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