Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to dmccaffery/claude-desktop-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.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmccaffery/claude-desktop-mcp/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dmccaffery/claude-desktop-mcpWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dmccaffery/claude-desktop-mcp/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dmccaffery/claude-desktop-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dmccaffery/claude-desktop-mcp/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dmccaffery/claude-desktop-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dmccaffery/claude-desktop-mcp/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00250 | $0.00250 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00100 | $0.00100 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00050 | $0.00050 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00025 | $0.00025 |
Grade A, and why
claude-desktop-mcp AGENTS.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 2mo 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.
What it actually says
Agent instructions
Repo-specific conventions for AI agents working in this repository. These layer on top of the global agent instructions
in ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md. CLAUDE.md is a symlink to this file, so Claude Code and any other AGENTS.md-aware tool
read the same guidance.
Before preparing commits
Run make pr before preparing any commit. It runs the full pre-commit gate — license, fmt, lint, and test — so
the working tree is license-headed, formatted, lint-clean, and green before anything is staged.
Then author the commit per the global commit convention: write commit.sh at the repo root (or re-sign inside a
worktree) and hand it to the user to run. make commit depends on pr, so it runs the same gate first and then
executes ./commit.sh when that script is present — making make commit the one-shot path once commit.sh exists.
Never run git commit directly from inside the sandbox: commit signing runs through ssh-agent, which the sandbox
blocks, so any commit made there lands unsigned.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 18 lines · 250 tokens per session scan A bcd526427c6a
claude-desktop-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dmccaffery/claude-desktop-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 250 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.
claude-desktop-mcp AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude-desktop-mcp AGENTS.mddmccaffery/claude-desktop-mcp | Instructions file | 0 | 1mo ago | MIT | A | 250 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
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| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |