zen-mcp-server: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

zen-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from jray2123/zen-mcp-server. It costs 2,495 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A project-specific instruction document for zen-mcp-server, with setup guidance, common commands, code-quality checks, and testing steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Activating the virtual environment, running linting and formatting, executing tests, and following the project's development guide.
Why use it?
It tells the agent how to prepare the development environment and verify changes consistently.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is jray2123/zen-mcp-server's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on zen-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 zen-mcp-server configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jray2123/zen-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/jray2123/zen-mcp-server/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jray2123/zen-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 2,495 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,495 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 unknown 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 $0.02495 $0.02495
Opus 5.5 $0.00998 $0.00998
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00499 $0.00499
Haiku 4.5 $0.00249 $0.00249

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f5a580e1accf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zen-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 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 · 320 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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. 2mo ago First seen · 320 lines · 2,495 tokens per session scan A f5a580e1accf

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zen-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jray2123/zen-mcp-server (42 stars, last pushed 1y ago), with no licence file. It adds 2,495 tokens to every session, about $0.0100 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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