gaia-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

gaia-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from gaia-research/gaia-mcp. It costs 1,069 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository instruction file for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, covering project rules and how the organisation uses its tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding agent work in the gaia-mcp repository, including choosing the supported plugin or using a fallback when necessary.
Why use it?
It tells the agent which files to read, which package is deprecated, and how to avoid inventing unsupported commands or silently changing configuration.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to gaia-research/gaia-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/gaia-research/gaia-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaia-research/gaia-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 1,069 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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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.

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Fable 5.1 $0.01069 $0.01069
Opus 5 $0.00535 $0.00535
Sonnet 5 $0.00214 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00107 $0.00107

Measured today against content hash 61b12a0889c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-14, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gaia-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 · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent instructions

Read README.md and DEPRECATION.md before changing this repository. This repository is deprecated in favor of the bundled Skill Heaven plugin, but its published packages remain installable; do not start new product work here or pretend the deprecated package is the current plugin surface.

Organization dogfooding and feedback

Prefer the in-house Skill Heaven Agent Plugin or its actual supported Skills API surface when a genuine task need makes it relevant and the current harness makes it available. Native skills or the normal workflow may be a fallback when the in-house surface is unavailable or lacks a relevant usable skill; fallback does not count as Skill Heaven validation. This preference never overrides an explicit user invocation or a repository-required project skill. There is no skill quota: do not summon gratuitously, invent registration commands, pretend a client supports an unavailable surface, silently install anything, or edit user-global configuration. /summon is one-session context, not a permanent installation; preserve zero posture and human intent. If this repository's existing summon package surface is relevant, report its actual behavior rather than treating it as the portable plugin.

When friction appears during relevant real work or human feedback, capture a minimal local note immediately or as soon as practical. The exclusion list for public reports applies to capture as well as output: do not record raw prompts, transcripts, session logs, credentials, access tokens, raw tokenized content, personal data, private code, private URLs or paths, customer identifiers, or confidential details. Never record credentials or access tokens in feedback notes or drafts. Redact or synthesize before any external search query or delegate handoff. Store minimal drafts outside repository worktrees in caller-controlled local scratch. If uncertain, keep a constrained local note and ask the owner; do not export it. At task end, review pending notes; process only new actionable friction. Keep expected versus observed behavior, repo/commit, harness/version, route/source when known, a safe reproduction, impact, and evidence separate from inference. Identify human-reported facts as such. Retrieval score, retrieval rank, materialization, and exit code are not behavioral success or task outcome. Do not alter existing selection policy, labels, evidence semantics, or curator gates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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.

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gaia-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gaia-research/gaia-mcp (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,069 tokens to every session, about $0.0053 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 2026-09-13.

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