tabby-mcp CLAUDE.md

tabby-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from halilc4/tabby-mcp. It costs 727 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for tabby-mcp, an MCP server that controls the Tabby terminal through Chrome DevTools Protocol, a browser-style interface for communicating with an application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list Tabby tabs, run JavaScript, query the interface, wait for elements and capture screenshots.
Why use it?
They explain how the server is structured, installed and connected, reducing setup errors when controlling Tabby programmatically.

Instructions file

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/halilc4/tabby-mcp/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/halilc4/tabby-mcp

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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00727 $0.00727
Opus 5 $0.00364 $0.00364
Sonnet 5 $0.00145 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00073 $0.00073

Measured 5d ago against content hash d2dbe4a5fb66, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tabby-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 5d 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 · 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.

tabby-mcp

MCP server for controlling Tabby terminal via Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).

Architecture

server.py  ->  tools.py  ->  cdp.py  ->  Tabby (CDP port 9222)
  • server.py - MCP server entry point, stdio transport
  • tools.py - MCP tool definitions (execute_js, query, screenshot)
  • cdp.py - TabbyConnection class, CDP communication

Development

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run server
uv run tabby-mcp

# Tabby must be started with CDP debugging:
# tabby.exe --remote-debugging-port=9222

MCP Tools

Tool Description
list_targets List CDP targets (tabs) with index, title, url, ws_url
execute_js Execute JS in Tabby context (async IIFE wrap by default)
query Query DOM elements (auto-waits for Angular)
screenshot Capture screenshot of Tabby window or element

execute_js parameters

  • target - Tab index (0=first, -1=last) or ws_url
  • code - JavaScript code. Use return to return values
  • wrap - Wrap in async IIFE (default: true). Fresh scope + await support. Set to false for raw execution (global functions, etc.)

query parameters

  • selector - CSS selector
  • include_children - Include children preview (default: false)
  • include_text - Include textContent (default: true)
  • skip_wait - Skip Angular/element wait (default: false)

Query automatically waits for Angular Zone.js stable and element existence. Use skip_wait=true only when you know the element already exists.

screenshot parameters

  • target - Tab index (0=first, -1=last) or ws_url
  • selector - CSS selector for element screenshot (optional, full window if omitted)
  • format - Image format: "png" or "jpeg" (default: "jpeg")
  • quality - JPEG quality 0-100 (default: 80, ignored for PNG)
  • save_path - File path to save screenshot (optional, returns base64 if omitted)

CDP Helper methods (cdp.py)

  • execute_js(expression, target, wrap=True) - Execute JS, return result. wrap=True for IIFE+async
  • list_targets() - List tabs with index, title, url, ws_url
  • query(selector) - Query elements, return info (tagName, id, className, text)
  • query_with_retry(selector, max_retries, delay) - Query with retry for dynamic elements
  • click(selector, index) - Click element
  • get_text(selector) - Return textContent
  • wait_for(selector, timeout, visible) - Wait for element to exist (internal)
  • wait_for_angular(timeout) - Wait for Angular Zone.js stable (internal)
  • screenshot(format, quality, selector) - Capture screenshot, return base64. selector=None for full window

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 5d ago First seen · 79 lines · 727 tokens per session scan A d2dbe4a5fb66

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tabby-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository halilc4/tabby-mcp (7 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 727 tokens to every session, about $0.0036 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.