mtg-oracle: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

mtg-oracle CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from gregario/mtg-oracle. It costs 271 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for MTG Oracle, an MCP server that provides Magic: The Gathering card data, rules, and deck analysis. It also documents where card data comes from and how it is stored.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding features or fixing code in MTG Oracle, especially around Scryfall data, SQLite storage, card queries, or deck analysis.
Why use it?
It prevents development work from overlooking the project's data-source rules, architecture, and test-first workflow. TDD means writing tests before the code they check.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is gregario/mtg-oracle's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on mtg-oracle 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 mtg-oracle configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to gregario/mtg-oracle. 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/gregario/mtg-oracle/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gregario/mtg-oracle

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 271 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 271 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.
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 5.1 $0.00271 $0.00271
Opus 5.5 $0.00108 $0.00108
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00054 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00027

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5b5aeb241c64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mtg-oracle 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 2mo ago.

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 · 33 lines

What it actually says

mtg-oracle

MCP server for Magic: The Gathering card data, rules, and deck analysis.

Stack Profiles

  • MCP stack profile: ../../stacks/mcp/
  • TypeScript stack profile: ../../stacks/typescript/

Read both stack profiles before writing any code.

Architecture

  • Runtime data: Downloads Scryfall bulk data on first run, stores in ~/.mtg-oracle/
  • Does NOT bundle card data in the npm package — data is fetched at runtime
  • Updates: Checks Scryfall bulk-data metadata endpoint, downloads only if newer
  • Storage: SQLite via better-sqlite3 for fast indexed queries

Data Source Compliance

Wizards of the Coast — Fan Content Policy

This project is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards of the Coast. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. All rights reserved.

Scryfall Terms

  • Card data provided by Scryfall
  • Must remain free to use
  • Must add value beyond raw data access
  • Do not claim endorsement by Scryfall

Engineering

Uses Superpowers for engineering execution. Follow TDD workflow: write tests first, then implement.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 33 lines · 271 tokens per session scan A 5b5aeb241c64

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mtg-oracle CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gregario/mtg-oracle (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 271 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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