mcp-toolbox GEMINI.md

Development guidance for the MCP Toolbox for Databases project, a Go application that lets language models use databases and other services through defined tools. It covers the project's structure, technologies, coding style, and development workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on the MCP Toolbox codebase, especially its Go sources, database integrations, documentation, Docker setup, continuous integration, linting, or evaluation files.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents the project context they need to make changes that fit the repository. It reduces confusion about where source code, tests, documentation, containers, and automated checks belong.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/gemini-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox

Made for: Gemini CLI.

Per session 3,611 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 3,611 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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 $0.03611 $0.03611
Opus 5 $0.01806 $0.01806
Sonnet 5 $0.00722 $0.00722
Haiku 4.5 $0.00361 $0.00361

Measured yesterday against content hash b99bb31d4787, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-toolbox GEMINI.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

4. **Test Endpoint:** `curl http://127.0.0.1:5000`
GEMINI.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Toolbox Context & Style Guide

This file (symlinked as CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and .gemini/styleguide.md) provides context and guidelines for AI agents working on the MCP Toolbox for Databases project. It summarizes key information from CONTRIBUTING.md and DEVELOPER.md.

Project Overview

MCP Toolbox for Databases is a Go-based project designed to provide Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools for various data sources and services. It allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to interact with databases and other tools safely and efficiently.

Tech Stack

  • Language: Go (1.23+)
  • Documentation: Hugo (Extended Edition v0.146.0+)
  • Containerization: Docker
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Google Cloud Build
  • Linting: golangci-lint

Key Directories

  • cmd/: Application entry points.
  • internal/sources/: Implementations of database sources (e.g., Postgres, BigQuery).
  • internal/tools/: Implementations of specific tools for each source.
  • tests/: Integration tests.
  • evals/: Evalsets and harness configs for evaluating the prebuilt tool configs with EvalBench; run by .ci/evals.cloudbuild.yaml.
  • docs/en: Project documentation. Separated logically into:
    • documentation/: Documentation and concepts (Section I).
    • integrations/: Reference architectures for DB connectivity and tools (Section II).
    • samples/: Tutorials and code samples (Section III).
    • reference/: CLI info and FAQs (Section IV).

Development Workflow

Prerequisites

  • Go 1.23 or later.
  • Docker (for building container images and running some tests).
  • Access to necessary Google Cloud resources for integration testing (if applicable).

Building and Running

  1. Build Binary: go build -o toolbox
  2. Run Server: go run . (Listens on port 5000 by default)
  3. Run with Help: go run . --help
  4. Test Endpoint: curl http://127.0.0.1:5000

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 248 lines · 3,611 tokens per session scan A b99bb31d4787

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mcp-toolbox GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository googleapis/mcp-toolbox (16,283 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,611 tokens to every session, about $0.0181 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.