pyscope-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

pyscope-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from hyang0129/pyscope-mcp. It costs 1,959 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for pyscope-mcp, a server that builds call graphs showing which Python functions and modules connect to one another. It explains the project’s rules and current implementation status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Read it before changing the analyzer, graph data, command-line interface, MCP server, build or serve paths, or related tests.
Why use it?
It gives an agent the project constraints it must follow before making non-trivial changes, including accuracy, startup, synchronisation, and update-time requirements.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is hyang0129/pyscope-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on pyscope-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 pyscope-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to hyang0129/pyscope-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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hyang0129/pyscope-mcp

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Opus 5 $0.00979 $0.00979
Sonnet 5 $0.00392 $0.00392
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Security

Grade A, and why

pyscope-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 8d 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 · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

pyscope-mcp — Claude instructions

What this repo is

A standalone pip-installable MCP server. Exposes function- and module-level call graphs of a target Python repo as MCP tools so agentic coding clients can query structure instead of grepping.

Package name on PyPI: pyscope-mcp. Import path: pyscope_mcp. Console script: pyscope-mcp.

Governing document — read before non-trivial changes

CONSTITUTION.md defines the non-negotiables this project is checked against. Any PR that adds features, changes the graph surface, or touches the serve/build split must keep all four laws and pass the Review Heuristic at the bottom of that file. In one-line summary:

  1. Never mislead the consumer — no uncertain edges, no silent truncation.
  2. Minimal startup; the serve path stays thin.
  3. Git-in-sync graph is the zero-friction default; drift is cheaply detectable.
  4. Graph update ≤60 s on standard PRs.

When the conventions below appear to conflict with the constitution, the constitution wins. If that happens, flag it — the convention is out of date.

Current status

The query layer, index format, CLI, MCP server, tests, and analyzer are all fully implemented and in production. The AST-based analyzer (build_raw and build_with_report) walks the target repo, resolves intra-package call edges, captures file-level SHA digests and skeleton symbols, and writes a versioned JSON index. Running pyscope-mcp build produces the index; pyscope-mcp serve loads it and answers MCP queries.

See docs/prior-art.md for the full pivot rationale (why we dropped pycg), the inherent limits of static analysis on dynamic Python, and a survey of how other code-graph MCPs solve these problems. The conventions below are the distilled takeaways — read prior-art.md for the reasoning.

The one contract the analyzer must satisfy

def build_raw(root: Path, package: str) -> dict[str, list[str]]: ...
  • Keys: fully-qualified caller names, e.g. my_pkg.module.function or my_pkg.module.Class.method.
  • Values: lists of fully-qualified callees in the same form.
  • Python 3.11+ native. No monkey-patching the import system. AST-based, not import-based.
  • Per-file error isolation. A parse failure on one file must not abort the run — skip, warn, continue.
  • No runtime import of target code. pycg's fatal mistake; don't repeat it.
  • Deterministic output. Same repo in, same JSON out.

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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. 8d ago First seen · 135 lines · 1,959 tokens per session scan A 636b90eb1395

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pyscope-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository hyang0129/pyscope-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,959 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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