What is kwin-mcp CLAUDE.md?

Project instructions for kwin-mcp, a server that lets AI assistants control and observe Linux desktop applications running on KDE Plasma 6.

Developing or checking desktop-automation features, including isolated GUI testing and automation of a live KDE desktop.

They provide the project context, required tools, commands, and coding rules needed to make safe changes.

How isac322/kwin-mcp configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to isac322/kwin-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/isac322/kwin-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/isac322/kwin-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 932 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 932 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	$0.00932	$0.00932
Opus 5.5	$0.00373	$0.00373
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00186	$0.00186
Haiku 4.5	$0.00093	$0.00093

Measured 12d ago against content hash ac9aae52a526, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kwin-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 12d 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 · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Working Guidelines

Project Overview

kwin-mcp is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for Linux desktop GUI automation on KDE Plasma 6 Wayland. Purpose: Enable AI agents (Claude Code and other MCP clients) to launch, interact with, and observe any Wayland application — either in a fully isolated virtual KWin session for reproducible GUI testing, or by connecting to a live KDE Plasma desktop (real session or container) for collaborative live desktop automation workflows.

Toolchain

Package Manager: uv (Astral). Always use uv instead of pip/poetry.
Lint + Format: ruff (Astral). Config in pyproject.toml under [tool.ruff].
Type Check: ty (Astral). Config in pyproject.toml under [tool.ty].
Build: uv build (uv_build backend)

Common Commands

uv sync                   # Install/sync dependencies
uv add <pkg>              # Add dependency
uv add --dev <pkg>        # Add dev dependency
uv run ruff check .       # Lint
uv run ruff format .      # Format
uv run ty check           # Type check
uv run python -m kwin_mcp # Run server

Code Style

Python 3.12+
ruff rules: E, F, W, I, N, UP, B, A, SIM, TCH, RUF
Line length: 100
Quotes: double quote
Type hints required
All documents (.md files), code comments, and docstrings must be written in English

Architecture

Key modules in src/kwin_mcp/:

models.py: Shared argument types and result models; one render() per result
core.py: AutomationEngine — MCP-independent automation logic for all 29 tools
server.py: Thin MCP wrappers delegating to AutomationEngine
cli.py: Interactive REPL + pipe mode via cmd.Cmd (kwin-mcp-cli entry point)
session.py: Virtual sessions (dbus-run-session + kwin_wayland --virtual) and live session attachment (session_connect to real desktop or container)
screenshot.py: KWin ScreenShot2 D-Bus, Spectacle, and X11/scrot capture
accessibility.py: AT-SPI2 widget queries, element refs, and actions
spoken_name.py: Unicode normalization and spoken accessible-name matching
geometry.py: Windows, virtual desktops, activation, and output topology via KWin scripting
clipboard.py: Private Wayland data-control helper for Unicode paste
dbus_args.py: dbus_call argument parser (dbus-send strings and typed JSON)
dbus_service_file.py: Bounded D-Bus service-file parser and direct AT-SPI exec helper
input.py: KWin EIS D-Bus + libei input injection and held-input tracking

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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.

12d ago Changed · -82 lines · -1,575 tokens per session ac9aae52a526
15d ago Changed · +4 lines · +49 tokens per session a974ba2cf6c0
1mo ago First seen · 140 lines · 2,458 tokens per session scan A b9753cfe2b43

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kwin-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository isac322/kwin-mcp (77 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 932 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 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 2026-08-30.

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vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 9,715 tokens

kwin-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

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What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

Claude Code Working Guidelines

Project Overview

Toolchain

Common Commands

Code Style

Architecture

What this file has done since we first saw it

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