What is brightspace-mcp AGENTS.md?

A project guide for Brightspace MCP, a TypeScript server that lets AI assistants work with Brightspace, D2L’s online learning platform. It explains the repository layout, setup, authentication, and common problems.

Use it when setting up Brightspace MCP, locating code, understanding its design, or preparing an issue. It should be read before opening an issue.

It gives developers and AI assistants the context needed to navigate the project safely, including where course and assignment code lives and how writes are controlled.

How JhostinAleck/brightspace-mcp configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to JhostinAleck/brightspace-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/JhostinAleck/brightspace-mcp/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JhostinAleck/brightspace-mcp

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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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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Per session 1,563 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,563 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	$0.01563	$0.01563
Opus 5	$0.00781	$0.00781
Sonnet 5	$0.00313	$0.00313
Haiku 4.5	$0.00156	$0.00156

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0f6eaf99781d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brightspace-mcp AGENTS.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 6d 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.

AGENTS.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Project map for AI assistants & humans

Map of the brightspace-mcp repository. Read this first if you've never touched the project. Standard format (agentsmd.org) — works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Aider.

What this is

MCP server that exposes a Brightspace (D2L) instance to AI assistants. Built in TypeScript, follows DDD with bounded contexts, opt-in writes, multi-strategy auth.

src/                       ← TypeScript sources (DDD layout)
  contexts/                ← Bounded contexts (assignments, courses, content, …)
    {ctx}/domain/          ← Pure types & repository interfaces
    {ctx}/application/     ← Use cases (orchestrate domain)
    {ctx}/infrastructure/  ← D2L API + cache adapters
  mcp/                     ← MCP tool registry & schemas
    resources/             ← MCP Resource handlers (brightspace:// URIs)
    prompts/               ← MCP Prompt templates
  shared-kernel/           ← Cross-cutting (config, types, audit, writes gate)
    output/                ← i18n, timezone formatting, markdown builder
  cli/                     ← Commander entry points (serve, setup, auth, config)
    commands/ui.ts         ← brightspace-mcp ui (Hono HTTP server)
    commands/init.ts       ← brightspace-mcp init (non-interactive config)
  ui/                      ← Web dashboard static files (HTML + Alpine.js)
build/                     ← tsc output (do not edit)
docs/                      ← Detailed documentation (see docs/README.md)
tests/                     ← Vitest mirror of src/

Setup in 5 steps

Install — npm install -g brightspace-mcp (or use npx)
Config — pick one:
- brightspace-mcp setup — interactive wizard for typed credentials (TOTP-scriptable MFA)
- brightspace-mcp init [flags] — non-interactive config writer for CI/scripts (no TTY required)
- brightspace-mcp record-auth --save-to keychain — opens a browser, you log in manually, cookies captured (works with ANY MFA: push notifications, FIDO2, biometric, etc.)
Test auth — brightspace-mcp auth --test
Register — point your MCP client at brightspace-mcp serve (see docs/clients.md)
Use it — "What courses am I enrolled in?" → invokes list_my_courses

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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.

6d ago First seen · 84 lines · 1,563 tokens per session scan A 0f6eaf99781d

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brightspace-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository JhostinAleck/brightspace-mcp (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,563 tokens to every session, about $0.0078 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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