windbg-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

windbg-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from glslang/windbg-mcp. It costs 3,211 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A windbg-mcp project guide for a Rust server that connects coding agents to WinDbg, a Windows debugging tool, for live programs, crash dumps, and recorded debugging sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when modifying the MCP server, debugger engine, communication protocol, debugging sessions, or connection handling.
Why use it?
It explains the server's supervisor and worker processes, debugging bindings, and local verification steps so changes do not break its runtime model.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.03211 $0.03211
Opus 5 $0.01605 $0.01605
Sonnet 5 $0.00642 $0.00642
Haiku 4.5 $0.00321 $0.00321

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Security

Grade A, and why

windbg-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 · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Guidance for Claude Code working in this repo. README.md is the map — it carries the tool table and links out to one document per topic under docs/ (architecture.md, sessions.md, tool-surface.md, structured-results.md, …); this file covers the non-obvious operational workflows.

Most of that guidance is not in this file, and that is deliberate. What every session needs is here; what only a part of the tree needs is a path-scoped rule under .claude/rules/, loaded when Claude reads a file it covers; what is a procedure is a skill under .claude/skills/, whose body costs nothing until it is invoked. Where the rest of it lives below is the index of both. Add to this file only what a session touching none of those files still has to know — it is loaded in full, every time, and length here is paid for by every other instruction competing with it.

What this is

windbg-mcp is a Rust MCP server (stdio, rmcp) exposing WinDbg/DbgEng for live user-mode, kernel, crash-dump, and Time Travel Debugging (TTD) work. The low-level DbgEng bindings come from the sibling crate dbgscope (a path/git dependency we grow ourselves — do not add third-party DbgEng crates).

A new DbgEng primitive is a typed dbgscope method, returning Result<_, DbgEngError> rather than panic!/.expect, never the execute text hatch. It is here rather than in .claude/rules/cargo-and-dependencies.md with the rest of the dbgscope material because it binds a Rust-only change, which loads that rule never — it is scoped to the manifests and build.rs.

The binary has two roles. Started normally it is the supervisor: MCP on stdio, no DbgEng. Re-executed with --engine-worker it owns exactly one debug session, because dbgeng.dll holds one debuggee session per process. Key source: src/engine.rs (the supervisor — session registry, worker supervision, routing), src/worker.rs (the child process and the engine thread inside it), src/proto.rs (the wire protocol between them), src/server.rs (the MCP tools), src/kdconn.rs (KDNET connection profiles and the redacting Connection type), src/ttd.rs, src/main.rs (role selection).

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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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windbg-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository glslang/windbg-mcp (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 3,211 tokens to every session, about $0.0161 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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