tmdb-mcp AGENTS.md

tmdb-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from Grinv/tmdb-mcp. It costs 2,581 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project guide for a TypeScript MCP server that provides movie and television data. MCP is a way for AI agents to call tools; this server uses TMDB for search and metadata and can optionally add ratings from OMDb.

In plain words
What is it for?
Working on movie and TV search, metadata, people, trending data, optional IMDb or review-site ratings, configuration, output formatting, and schema validation.
Why use it?
It gives agents the repository structure, design decisions, conventions, and checks needed to change or test the server consistently.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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/grinv/tmdb-mcp/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Grinv/tmdb-mcp

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 2,581 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,581 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.02581 $0.02581
Opus 5 $0.01290 $0.01290
Sonnet 5 $0.00516 $0.00516
Haiku 4.5 $0.00258 $0.00258

Measured 3d ago against content hash f7df04285946, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tmdb-mcp AGENTS.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 3d 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.

AGENTS.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Single source of truth for working on this repository — for any model or agent. CLAUDE.md only references this file (@AGENTS.md); keep all shared guidance here, not in CLAUDE.md. (For end-user/runtime docs, see README.md.)

Project shape

A TypeScript MCP server for movie/TV data. Hybrid backend: TMDB is the backbone (search, metadata, people, trending) via its v3 REST API with a v4 Read Access Token; OMDb is optional enrichment supplying IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes/Metacritic ratings, keyed by the imdb_id TMDB returns. Design rationale (why two clients, why not the IMDb API, TMDB endpoint quirks, template reuse) lives in docs/architecture.md.

src/
  index.ts        # bin entry — calls start()
  server.ts       # buildServer() + start(); registers everything
  config.ts       # env → validated Config (zod)
  version.ts      # VERSION constant kept in sync with package.json by npm version
  format.ts       # raw TMDB/OMDb payloads → trimmed, agent-facing shapes
  format.schemas.ts # Zod schemas mirroring format.ts's shapers 1:1; each tool's outputSchema
                    # AND the shaper itself parses its result through the matching schema
                    # before returning, so shaper/schema drift throws immediately
  prompts.ts      # MCP Prompts: multi-step plans that guide the model through the tools
  lib/            # GENERIC carcass: http, rateLimit, cache, upstream, errors, logger, result
  clients/        # tmdb.ts (backbone reads), omdb.ts (ratings enrichment)
  tools/          # tmdb/ (search.ts, details.ts incl. OMDb enrichment, discover.ts, lookups.ts,
                  # fields.ts shared builders, index.ts composes registerTmdbTools), omdb.ts
                  # (get_ratings), shared.ts (READ_ONLY, requireConfigured(Cached) — try/catch →
                  # ToolResult)
  __tests__/      # node:test (*.test.ts) + helpers.ts
scripts/          # build-tests.mjs, run-tests.mjs (generic), check-api.mjs (domain),
                  # sync-version.mjs (npm version hook), preversion-check.mjs (npm version
                  # gate — see .agents/skills/release/SKILL.md)
.agents/skills/   # reusable agent workflows for this repo (e.g. live-audit/) — plain Markdown
                  # with a YAML frontmatter name/description, not tied to any one tool's
                  # orchestration features. Same skill name/layout as this project's sibling
                  # MCP servers (steam-games-mcp, mal-mcp, anilist-mcp-server) — sync
                  # improvements both ways rather than letting them drift. `.claude/skills` is
                  # a symlink here (Codex CLI/Gemini CLI read `.agents/skills` directly,
                  # Claude Code the symlink)

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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. 3d ago First seen · 165 lines · 2,581 tokens per session scan A f7df04285946

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tmdb-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Grinv/tmdb-mcp (4 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,581 tokens to every session, about $0.0129 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.