govuk-frontend-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

govuk-frontend-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from gabrielg2020/govuk-frontend-mcp. It costs 924 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project-specific instructions for developing govuk-frontend-mcp, an MCP server that provides GOV.UK Frontend components, design-system patterns, and styles to AI assistants as reference resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building the project, refreshing component or design-system data, adding a resource, or understanding its TypeScript code layout.
Why use it?
It gives contributors the repository structure, build commands, and rules needed to update the server without editing generated data directly.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is gabrielg2020/govuk-frontend-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on govuk-frontend-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 govuk-frontend-mcp configures →

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is import { getComponentData } from '../utils/tool-helpers.js';.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to gabrielg2020/govuk-frontend-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.

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Clone the repo
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CLAUDE.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

govuk-frontend-mcp

MCP server exposing GOV.UK Frontend components, Design System patterns and styles as resources.

Structure

src/
├── index.ts              # Server - registers resources
├── resources/            # Resource handlers
├── utils/tool-helpers.ts # Shared utilities
├── data/components.json  # Generated data (don't edit)
├── data/patterns.json    # Generated data (don't edit)
└── data/styles.json      # Generated data (don't edit)

scripts/build-data.ts     # Extracts data from govuk-frontend package
scripts/build-patterns.ts # Fetches pattern data from GitHub (alphagov/govuk-design-system, v5 branch)
scripts/build-styles.ts   # Fetches style data from GitHub (alphagov/govuk-design-system, v5 branch)

Commands

npm run clean                         # Remove the dist/ directory
npm run build:data -- <version>       # Extract component data from node_modules (optionally install govuk-frontend@<version> first, unsaved)
npm run build:patterns -- <branch>    # Fetch pattern data from GitHub (defaults to v5)
npm run build:styles -- <branch>      # Fetch style data from GitHub (defaults to v5)
npm run build                         # clean + build:data + build:patterns + build:styles + compile TypeScript
npm run typecheck                     # Type-check src/ and scripts/ without emitting
npm run dev                           # Run in development

Note: the -- separator before the branch argument is required — without it, npm swallows the argument and it never reaches the script.

Available Resources

  • govuk://components - List all available components
  • govuk://component/{name} - Get specific component details
  • govuk://patterns - List all available Design System patterns
  • govuk://pattern/{name} - Get specific pattern guidance
  • govuk://styles - List all available Design System styles
  • govuk://style/{name} - Get specific style guidance (govuk://style/page-template includes the annotated Nunjucks template)
  • govuk://version - Version metadata for the server, components package and design-system branches

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Changes

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govuk-frontend-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gabrielg2020/govuk-frontend-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 924 tokens to every session, about $0.0046 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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