What is mcp-workspace AGENTS.md?

A set of instructions for mcp-workspace, a server that lets AI assistants access university tools including D2L Brightspace and Piazza. MCP, or Model Context Protocol, is a standard way for assistants to use external tools.

Use it when navigating the repository, changing the D2L or Piazza server, running tests, building services, or deploying them with PM2.

It explains the repository layout, deployment setup, and conventions before an agent changes a project that can contain several independently run servers.

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Opus 5.5	$0.00375	$0.00375
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00188	$0.00188
Haiku 4.5	$0.00094	$0.00094

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Grade A, and why

mcp-workspace 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 2mo ago.

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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 · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

mcp-workspace — Agent Guide

Read this first. This file is the authoritative entry point for any AI agent or engineer working in this repository. It tells you how the codebase is structured, where decisions live, and how to make progress without breaking things.

1. What is mcp-workspace?

mcp-workspace is a personal MCP (Model Context Protocol) server workspace that gives AI assistants (Claude, Copilot, Poke, etc.) access to university tools — specifically D2L Brightspace and Piazza. It is deployed on an EC2 instance and managed via PM2. The workspace may host multiple MCP servers, each running on its own port.

2. Repo Map (progressive disclosure)

Path	Purpose
`d2l-mcp/`	D2L Brightspace + Piazza MCP server (primary MCP)
`setup/`	Setup scripts and utilities
`tests/`	Test suite (vitest)
`ecosystem.config.cjs`	PM2 process config for all MCPs
`package.json`	Workspace-level scripts (build-all, start-all, etc.)
`SETUP.md`	Quickstart for local dev and EC2 deployment
`docs/`	Architecture, debt log, ADRs, and plans — start here for context
`AGENTS.md`	This file

3. Key Conventions

TypeScript everywhere. All new MCP tool files must be .ts. Build to dist/ before deploying.
Each MCP gets its own directory and port. Do not co-locate two MCP servers in the same directory. Add new MCPs as sibling directories alongside d2l-mcp/.
PM2 is the process manager. All servers are defined in ecosystem.config.cjs. Do not start servers manually in production.
Sessions are managed locally and synced. D2L and Piazza session files live in ~/.d2l-session/ and ~/.piazza-session/. They must be synced to EC2 via npm run sync-sessions after re-authentication.
Private mapping files are gitignored. notes_map.json and piazza_map.json are never committed. Document their schema in docs/architecture.md if it changes.
No secrets in source. Credentials and keys live in each MCP's .env (gitignored). Use environment variables only.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

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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.

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mcp-workspace AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository hamzakammar/mcp-workspace (7 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 938 tokens to every session, about $0.0038 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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