instagram-mcp-server: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

instagram-mcp-server AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from ishan-parihar/instagram-mcp-server. It costs 1,390 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository-specific instructions for developing an Instagram scraping server. They document the project’s commands, scraping rules, return format, and checks for verifying reported bugs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Installing dependencies, linting and formatting Python code, running type checks and tests, starting the server, building its container, and following Instagram scraping rules.
Why use it?
They give a coding agent the project’s local conventions before it changes code. This helps keep navigation, dependencies, formatting, and tests consistent.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

This is ishan-parihar/instagram-mcp-server's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on instagram-mcp-server 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 instagram-mcp-server configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ishan-parihar/instagram-mcp-server. 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/ishan-parihar/instagram-mcp-server/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ishan-parihar/instagram-mcp-server

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What it costs to keep this loaded

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Opus 5 $0.00695 $0.00695
Sonnet 5 $0.00278 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00139 $0.00139

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2235e582ee3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

instagram-mcp-server AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -D /tmp/mcp-headers -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp \
AGENTS.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

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

Development Commands

  • Use uv for dependency management: uv sync (dev: uv sync --group dev)
  • Lint: uv run ruff check . (auto-fix with --fix)
  • Format: uv run ruff format .
  • Type check: uv run ty check (using ty, not mypy)
  • Tests: uv run pytest (with coverage: uv run pytest --cov)
  • Pre-commit: uv run pre-commit install then uv run pre-commit run --all-files
  • Run server locally: uv run -m instagram_mcp_server --no-headless
  • Run via uvx (PyPI/package verification only): uvx instagram-scraper-mcp
  • Docker build: docker build -t instagram-mcp-server .
  • Install browser: uv run patchright install chromium

Scraping Rules

  • One section = one navigation. Each entry in USER_SECTIONS / HASHTAG_SECTIONS / LOCATION_SECTIONS (scraping/fields.py) maps to exactly one page navigation. Never combine multiple URLs behind a single section.
  • Minimize DOM dependence. Prefer innerText and URL navigation over DOM selectors. When DOM access is unavoidable, use minimal generic selectors (a[href*="/p/"], a[href*="/reel/"]) — never class names tied to Instagram's hashed layout classes.

Tool Return Format

All scraping tools return: {url, sections: {name: raw_text}}.

Optional additional keys:

  • references: {section_name: [{kind, url, text?, context?}]} — Instagram URLs are relative paths
  • section_errors: {section_name: {error_type, error_message, issue_template_path, runtime, ...}}
  • unknown_sections: [name, ...]
  • post_ids: [id, ...] (search tools only)

Verifying Bug Reports

Always verify scraping bugs end-to-end against live Instagram, not just code analysis. Use uv run, not uvx, so the running process reflects your workspace. Use uvx only for packaged distribution verification. For live Docker investigations, refresh the source session first with uv run -m instagram_mcp_server --login before testing each materially different approach. Assume a valid login profile already exists at ~/.instagram-mcp/profile/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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.

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instagram-mcp-server AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ishan-parihar/instagram-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,390 tokens to every session, about $0.0069 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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