chemdraw-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

chemdraw-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from jurimaxam-dotcom/chemdraw-mcp. It costs 3,342 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Instructions for a tool that turns molecule names or SMILES, a text format for describing chemical structures, into two-dimensional structure drawings. It produces PNG or SVG images and can optionally produce ChemDraw CDXML files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or run the MCP server, diagnose installation problems, register it with Claude Desktop, and understand where new tools belong in the project.
Why use it?
It provides a documented way to install, run, diagnose, and connect the chemistry drawing tool to Claude Desktop, including handling its configuration and stale processes.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

This is jurimaxam-dotcom/chemdraw-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on chemdraw-mcp 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 chemdraw-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for chemdraw-mcp CLAUDE.md

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jurimaxam-dotcom/chemdraw-mcp/claude-md/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jurimaxam-dotcom/chemdraw-mcp/claude-md)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jurimaxam-dotcom/chemdraw-mcp/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jurimaxam-dotcom/chemdraw-mcp/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for chemdraw-mcp CLAUDE.md

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jurimaxam-dotcom/chemdraw-mcp/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jurimaxam-dotcom/chemdraw-mcp/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 3,342 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 3,342 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 $0.03342 $0.03342
Opus 5 $0.01671 $0.01671
Sonnet 5 $0.00668 $0.00668
Haiku 4.5 $0.00334 $0.00334

Measured 9d ago against content hash 30e5e2c8b856, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chemdraw-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 9d 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 · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

chemdraw-mcp

MCP server for Claude Desktop that turns molecule names or SMILES into publication-style 2D structure drawings. PNG/SVG are the primary outputs (rendered offline via RDKit) — ChemDraw CDXML is an optional extra format, never a runtime requirement.

Build / Run

./install.sh                 # one-command setup: uv + deps + Claude Desktop config
uv sync                      # deps only
uv run chemdraw-tool-server  # run the MCP server (stdio) manually
uv run chemdraw-doctor       # diagnose the installation (env, paths, network)

install.sh registers the server via chemdraw_tool/desktop_config.py (idempotent merge, writes a .bak backup, never touches other configured MCP servers). The config logic lives in the package, not in scripts/, because the wheel ships only chemdraw_tool — PyPI users get chemdraw-install and a fully working chemdraw-doctor from it. Claude Desktop launches MCP servers with a minimal GUI PATH, so command must be an absolute path; the installer resolves it and prints what it wrote.

If a host keeps the server process alive (Claude Desktop does), restart it after changing server code or dependencies — a stale process mixes old in-memory modules with new files and manifests as confusing RDKit/Boost signature errors. Restart it yourself after such changes (osascript -e 'quit app "Claude"' && sleep 2 && open -a Claude); an MCP stdio handshake (initialize → tools/list) is the hard proof that the registered command works.

Auto-Gate (the project's green/red)

./test.sh                                     # lint + backend + bundle + frontend
npm --prefix chemdraw_tool/ui run test:watch  # JS unit tests in watch mode
./scripts/handshake.sh                        # real stdio handshake (needs network)

One-time frontend setup: cd chemdraw_tool/ui && npm install && npx playwright install chromium

handshake.sh sits outside the gate because its first run downloads the MCP Inspector. It is the only check that starts the server the way Claude Desktop does — the absolute command out of claude_desktop_config.json — and asserts the two numbers the Python side predicts (currently 20 tools, 14 with a panel). In-process tests cannot see the two failure modes that have actually cost time here: a stale server process and a GUI PATH that cannot find uv.

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 245 lines · 3,342 tokens per session scan A 30e5e2c8b856

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chemdraw-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jurimaxam-dotcom/chemdraw-mcp (13 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,342 tokens to every session, about $0.0167 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.

Related

Other instructions, from other repositories

next.js AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for vercel/next.js, covering next.js development guide, codebase structure, monorepo overview, core package: packages/next and other important packages.

vercel/next.js · 7,296 tokens

codex AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for openai/codex, covering rust/codex-rs, the codex-core crate, code review rules, crate api surface and model visible context.

openai/codex · 5,153 tokens

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 · 6,785 tokens

vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md

Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, applying the notice (cutover) and fallback chain (never fail the build).

microsoft/vscode · 5,001 tokens

langchain AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.

langchain-ai/langchain · 4,469 tokens

deepseek-harness AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness, covering agents.md, pre-stable apis and released session data, repository layout, commands and host sandbox failures.

deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · 3,735 tokens