primo-mcp-server: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

primo-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from geheharidas/primo-mcp-server. It costs 314 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository guidance for an MCP server that searches university library catalogues through the Ex Libris Primo API. It also describes citation and bibliography export support.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing, configuring, testing, or extending Primo catalogue searches and exports.
Why use it?
It gives contributors the architecture, configuration names, conventions, and test command needed to work on the server.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

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What it actually says

Primo MCP Server

MCP server for searching university library catalogues via the Ex Libris Primo discovery API.

Architecture

  • Framework: FastMCP (mcp.server.fastmcp)
  • Transport: stdio
  • HTTP client: httpx (async, connection-pooled)
  • Config: pydantic-settings with PRIMO_ env prefix

Key Files

  • src/primo_mcp_server/server.py -- MCP tool definitions and lifespan
  • src/primo_mcp_server/client.py -- Primo API HTTP client
  • src/primo_mcp_server/models.py -- Pydantic models for PNX response normalisation
  • src/primo_mcp_server/formatter.py -- Compact text output for LLM context
  • src/primo_mcp_server/citations.py -- Citation formatting (APA7, Harvard, Chicago, IEEE, Vancouver)
  • src/primo_mcp_server/exporters.py -- BibTeX, RIS, CSV export

Running Tests

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest tests/ -v

Configuration

Defaults are UWA. Override via environment variables:

  • PRIMO_BASE_URL -- Primo API base URL
  • PRIMO_VID -- View ID for the institution
  • PRIMO_INSTITUTION_NAME -- Display name

Conventions

  • Australian English (en-AU)
  • UTF-8-sig for CSV exports
  • No contractions in prose
  • ASCII-only in generated content
Changes

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primo-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository geheharidas/primo-mcp-server (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 314 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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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