What is ida-pro-mcp-plus CLAUDE.md?

Repository guidance for an IDA Pro MCP server, a tool that lets coding agents use IDA Pro to inspect and modify compiled programs.

Use it when adding or changing server features for disassembly, decompilation, memory inspection, type information, renaming, patching, debugging, or Python execution.

It records the project structure and rules needed to call IDA Pro safely, including its requirement that SDK calls run on the main thread.

How fantay0312/ida-pro-mcp-plus configures Claude Code

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Made for: Claude Code.

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
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Opus 5	$0.00566	$0.00566
Sonnet 5	$0.00226	$0.00226
Haiku 4.5	$0.00113	$0.00113

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Grade A, and why

ida-pro-mcp-plus 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 11d 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.

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CLAUDE.md · 157 lines

How it starts

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CLAUDE.md

Guidance for working in this repository.

What this project is

IDA Pro MCP Server: exposes IDA Pro / idalib functionality to MCP clients.

Main pieces:

src/ida_pro_mcp/server.py: MCP server entrypoint
src/ida_pro_mcp/idalib_server.py: headless idalib server
src/ida_pro_mcp/ida_mcp/: IDA/plugin-side APIs

Important API modules:

api_core.py: IDB metadata, functions, strings, imports
api_analysis.py: decompilation, disassembly, xrefs, paths, pattern search
api_memory.py: bytes/ints/strings, patching
api_types.py: structs, type inference, type application
api_modify.py: comments, renaming, asm patching
api_stack.py: stack frame operations
api_debug.py: debugger control, unsafe / low priority for tests
api_python.py: execute Python in IDA context
api_resources.py: ida:// MCP resources

Core implementation rules

IDA thread safety

All IDA SDK calls must run on the main thread. Use:

from .rpc import tool
from .sync import idasync

@tool
@idasync
def my_tool(...):
    ...

API conventions

Prefer batch-first APIs.
Many functions accept either a comma-separated string or a list.
Use full type hints and Annotated[...] descriptions.
The function docstring becomes the MCP tool description.

Example:

def my_api(addrs: Annotated[str, "Addresses (0x401000, main) or list"]) -> list[dict]:
    ...

Common helpers

Parse addresses with parse_address()
Normalize batch input with normalize_list_input() / normalize_dict_list()
Use shared pagination / filtering helpers from utils.py

Unsafe operations

Debugger or destructive operations should be marked unsafe:

from .rpc import tool, unsafe

@unsafe
@tool
@idasync
def dangerous_op(...):
    ...

Development commands

Run

uv run ida-pro-mcp
uv run ida-pro-mcp --transport http://127.0.0.1:8744/sse
uv run idalib-mcp --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8745 path/to/binary
uv run idalib-mcp --isolated-contexts --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8745 path/to/binary
uv run ida-pro-mcp --unsafe

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Changes

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ida-pro-mcp-plus CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository fantay0312/ida-pro-mcp-plus (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,132 tokens to every session, about $0.0057 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to ida-pro-mcp CLAUDE.md, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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