What is mcp-toolbox CLAUDE.md?

Repository instructions for developing mcp-toolbox, a Python project with a registry of small tools and a command-line server. They describe its layout, development commands, and how to add a tool.

Use them to install the project, run linting and tests, or register a new tool in the toolbox.

They reduce uncertainty about where code belongs and which checks to run when extending the project.

How im-girisankar/mcp-toolbox configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to im-girisankar/mcp-toolbox. 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/im-girisankar/mcp-toolbox/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/im-girisankar/mcp-toolbox

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 214 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 214 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00214	$0.00214
Opus 5.5	$0.00086	$0.00086
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00043	$0.00043
Haiku 4.5	$0.00021	$0.00021

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 10cd8d86b8d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-toolbox 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 2mo 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 · 21 lines

What it actually says

mcp-toolbox working notes

Architecture

src/mcp_toolbox/registry.py — central tool registry (dict + decorator)
src/mcp_toolbox/tools/ — individual tool modules, auto-register on import
src/mcp_toolbox/server.py — MCP stdio server; lazy-imports mcp.server.fastmcp.FastMCP; requires [server] extra (pip install 'mcp-toolbox[server]')
src/mcp_toolbox/config.py — ToolboxConfig dataclass + YAML loader
src/mcp_toolbox/cli.py — argparse CLI: serve / list / dump

Dev workflow

pip install -e ".[dev]"
ruff check src tests
pytest -q

Adding a new tool

Create src/mcp_toolbox/tools/my_tool.py
Decorate with @register("my_tool")
Import in src/mcp_toolbox/tools/__init__.py

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.

2mo ago First seen · 21 lines · 214 tokens per session scan A 10cd8d86b8d5

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mcp-toolbox CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository im-girisankar/mcp-toolbox (0 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 214 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 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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