honeycomb-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

honeycomb-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from honeycombio/honeycomb-mcp. It costs 354 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Development instructions for Honeycomb MCP, a project that connects software to Honeycomb through the Model Context Protocol.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to build the project, run type checks and Vitest tests, check individual tests, and follow its TypeScript, error-handling, validation, and import conventions.
Why use it?
They give contributors consistent commands and coding rules, reducing mistakes when building, checking, or testing the project.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to honeycombio/honeycomb-mcp. 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/honeycombio/honeycomb-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/honeycombio/honeycomb-mcp

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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 · 27 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Honeycomb MCP Development Guide

Build & Test Commands

  • Build: pnpm run build
  • Typecheck: pnpm typecheck
  • Run all tests: pnpm test
  • Run tests with watch mode: pnpm test:watch
  • Run single test: pnpm test -- -t "test name" (pattern matches test descriptions)
  • Run tests in specific file: pnpm test -- src/path/to/file.test.ts
  • Run with coverage: pnpm test:coverage

Code Style Guidelines

  • TypeScript: Use explicit types for parameters, variables, and return values
  • Imports: Group external libs first, then internal; use named imports with destructuring
  • Modules: Use ES modules with .js extension in import paths
  • Naming: camelCase for variables/methods, PascalCase for classes/interfaces/types
  • Error Handling: Use custom HoneycombError class for API errors; centralized error handling
  • Testing: Use Vitest with vi for mocks; test both success and error cases
  • Async: Use async/await consistently; handle promise rejections with try/catch
  • Type Validation: Use Zod schemas for validating external data
  • API Design: Methods should be focused with clear parameters and return types
  • Documentation: Add comments for complex operations and public methods
  • Caching: Use @stacksjs/ts-cache for resource caching; normalize keys as environment:resource:id
Changes

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honeycomb-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository honeycombio/honeycomb-mcp (43 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 354 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 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 2026-08-30.

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