mtg-mcp-server: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

mtg-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from j4th/mtg-mcp-server. It costs 386 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for an MCP server that gives AI assistants Magic: The Gathering data. Magic: The Gathering is a trading card game, and the server combines information from several card, deck, and game-statistics sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing the server, running quick or complete checks, testing its providers and services, or running smoke tests against real APIs.
Why use it?
They give coding agents a consistent way to install, test, lint, type-check, and understand the server. This reduces uncertainty when changing or reviewing the project.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

This is j4th/mtg-mcp-server's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on mtg-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 mtg-mcp-server configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to j4th/mtg-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/j4th/mtg-mcp-server/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/j4th/mtg-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 386 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 386 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00386 $0.00386
Opus 5.5 $0.00154 $0.00154
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00077 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00039 $0.00039

Measured 3d ago against content hash 314451524199, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mtg-mcp-server 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 3d 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 · 19 lines

What it actually says

MTG MCP Server — Claude Code entry point

Single source of truth for agent instructions is AGENTS.md. This file imports it so Claude Code reads the same rules as every other agent. Do not duplicate content here — edit AGENTS.md.

@AGENTS.md

Claude Code specifics (not portable to other harnesses)

  • Skills, hooks, and agents for Claude Code live in .claude/ (the pi equivalents are .pi/ and .agents/). The .claude/ tree is kept for the Claude Code subscription and is intentionally untouched by other agents.
  • smoke-test checklist path for Claude sessions: .claude/skills/smoke-test/SKILL.md (pi uses .agents/skills/smoke-test/SKILL.md).
  • Worktree agent workflow: commit all changes and verify you're on the correct feature branch before launching agents — they branch from the last COMMITTED state of the CURRENT branch. Never blindly cp files out of a worktree over scaffolded files (agents rewrite entire files — diff first). Cherry-pick agent commits back, then git diff <prior-commit>..HEAD -- <shared-files> to catch silent clobbers.
  • Cancel stale CI runs on the branch before pushing new commits.
  • Dispatch hierarchy: parallel agents (independent file domains) → subagent-driven development (sequential tasks needing review gates) → sequential only when tightly coupled.

PR workflow (Claude review bot)

  • Create PRs as drafts (gh pr create --draft) — automated review triggers on ready_for_review, not opened.
  • Fetch comments via gh api /repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{number}/comments, reply via .../comments/{id}/replies, fix, run mise run check, commit referencing the PR, push, resolve threads via GraphQL resolveReviewThread.
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. 3d ago Changed · -167 lines · -3,330 tokens per session 314451524199
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 186 lines · 3,716 tokens per session scan A 544a09d0aee3

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mtg-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository j4th/mtg-mcp-server (20 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 386 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 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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