keyward-mcp-server: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

keyward-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from gwdmnn/keyward-mcp-server. It costs 1,957 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for a local database service that gives a coding agent controlled access to customer PostgreSQL databases. The instructions describe its architecture, design documents, conventions, and security rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding development of db-mcp-server, including reading its design documents, following its code structure, and preserving its secret-handling requirements.
Why use it?
They help contributors change the database service without exposing database passwords, usernames, connection strings, or SSH keys to the agent.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

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

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CLAUDE.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — db-mcp-server

Guidance for Claude Code when working in this repository.

What this is

A local MCP server (Python, stdio) that gives Claude Code routed, credential-isolated access to customer PostgreSQL databases. Claude sends only SQL and receives only rows; DB usernames/passwords and SSH PEM keys never enter the model's context. It replaces the old database-connection skill (which read .env files and embedded passwords into psql commands — leaking them into the transcript).

Design docs (read these before changing behavior). Available in English (docs/en/) and Portuguese (docs/pt/); the Portuguese versions are the originals:

Core security invariants — do not violate

  1. No secret ever reaches the model's context. No MCP tool may accept or return a DB username/password, full DSN, or PEM contents. Credential writes are out-of-band via the db-vault CLI only — never an MCP tool.
  2. The server's stdout is the MCP protocol channel. NEVER print() (or otherwise write to stdout) from any code path the server reaches — it corrupts the stdio protocol. Use stderr/logging if needed. print() is fine only in the operator CLIs (vault_admin, bootstrap), which run in a terminal.
  3. Passphrase from the environment (DB_MCP_PASSPHRASE) — via the shell, a .env file (loaded by config.py; real env wins), or a getpass prompt — never from argv, the catalog, or a log. DB passwords in db-vault are read via getpass, never argv. Caveat: putting DB_MCP_PASSPHRASE in .env stores the vault passphrase in plaintext on disk next to vault.enc; prefer keeping only the path vars in .env and supplying the passphrase via shell/prompt.
  4. Never print secret values from bootstrap/db-vault — only counts and non-secret secret_refs (customer/env/service).
  5. Fresh AES-GCM nonce on every seal; atomic vault writes (temp + os.replace). Both already enforced in crypto.py — keep it that way.
  6. vault.enc, keys/, *.env, *.pem are git-ignored. Never commit them; never add a secret to registry.yaml (it is non-secret routing only).

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 lines

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keyward-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gwdmnn/keyward-mcp-server (0 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,957 tokens to every session, about $0.0098 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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