capsid-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

capsid-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from DrDustinEdwards/capsid-mcp. It costs 1,637 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Capsid, a private Cloudflare-based MCP server that stores and serves knowledge from databases and object storage while connecting directly to GitHub repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on Capsid, including its knowledge base, repository connections, deployment, authentication, decisions, and current status.
Why use it?
They give an agent the required background, session routine, and document-reading order before it works with the project.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to DrDustinEdwards/capsid-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/DrDustinEdwards/capsid-mcp/master/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DrDustinEdwards/capsid-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.01637 $0.01637
Opus 5 $0.00818 $0.00818
Sonnet 5 $0.00327 $0.00327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00164 $0.00164

Measured today against content hash 3aea003b24ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

capsid-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 today.

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 · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md - capsid-mcp

This file is the briefing you need BEFORE you can reach Capsid. Everything else is in Capsid. Consolidated 2026-08-14 from 13.7KB: the precedence model (capsid/repo-structure.md, layer 8) bans a repo file from restating canon, and this one had grown into a second canon store, holding its own copies of the auth model, the backup runbook and a defect list that Capsid already carried and kept more current.

What this is

Capsid: a single-user, Cloudflare-native MCP server serving a consolidated knowledge base from D1 and R2, reaching the GitHub repos directly. The memory and CMS layer for the whole portfolio. Live at https://capsid.dustin-edwards.workers.dev/mcp. Single-user per deployment by design; multi-tenant is out of scope.

Capsid documents itself, and those documents outrank this file. Read them before trusting any description of this system, including this one:

  • capsid/conventions.md portfolio-wide standing rules. Read first, every session.
  • capsid/core.md what Capsid IS and its current status. The only place status lives: tool count, deployed sha, open items.
  • capsid/decisions.md the rulings and why they are what they are.
  • capsid/schema.md the knowledge model and the lint loop.
  • capsid/repo-structure.md the 9-layer precedence model and the .claude standard shape.
  • capsid/protocol-restore.md tested restore procedures, including the D1 export gotcha.

Session ritual

Start: read capsid/conventions.md, then capsid/core.md. End: write NOTHING by default. The end-of-session episodic was withdrawn portfolio-wide 2026-08-21 (capsid/conventions.md); a session records a REVERSAL or a BINDING to capsid/decisions.md, or nothing.

Reaching it

  • MCP tool lists cache at connect time. A tool deployed mid-session is invisible until the connector reconnects or a new chat starts. Verified again 2026-08-14, when a reconnected session still held 22 tools against a deployed 24.
  • To verify a fresh deploy without waiting for a reconnect, call the Worker directly: POST initialize, then notifications/initialized, then tools/call, parsing SSE data: lines. The OAuth access token is in ~/.claude/.credentials.json under mcpOAuth (key prefix capsid|). Never print it.
  • Two gated paths: OAuth on /mcp for human clients, operator keys on /ops/mcp for agents and cron. Detail, including the read-only ro: tier and what it is denied: capsid/core.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. today Changed · +1 lines · +123 tokens per session 3aea003b24ab
  2. yesterday Changed · +2 lines · +269 tokens per session df1a829a249c
  3. 7d ago First seen · 56 lines · 1,245 tokens per session scan A ff79902b7aac

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capsid-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository DrDustinEdwards/capsid-mcp (0 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,637 tokens to every session, about $0.0082 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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