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 4,311 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.

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Clone the repo
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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 4d 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 · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

chemdraw-mcp

Current focus: general chemistry MVP (14.10.2026)

The default server profile is mvp: generate_molecule, batch_generate, compare_molecules, generate_reaction, export_anki_deck (since 21.10.2026, for the panel's Add to Anki button and the chat route), plus lookup_molecule_data and save_png for panel support (7 tools, 6 with a panel). Set CHEMDRAW_PROFILE=full and restart to restore the full catalog (23 tools, 16 with a panel). Other tools remain implemented and tested, but are not registered in the MVP. The immediate goal is a reliable input → correct structure → usable export workflow for general chemistry. Specialized pharmacy, trainer, quiz and payment expansion is paused. The existing browser trainer remains separate. tests/server_catalog.py explicitly builds the full profile for the historical taxonomy, snapshots and payload checks; tests/test_server_profiles.py verifies the actual default and explicit profiles in fresh processes. The stdio handshake derives its expected counts from the selected profile.

Helfer reports are claims to verify, not acceptance evidence (Jay, 14.10.2026). Independently inspect the diff and run the relevant checks before confirming completion. Distinguish repository code, installed package/dependencies and the running Desktop process; matching tool counts alone do not establish matching code.

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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 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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chemdraw-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jurimaxam-dotcom/chemdraw-mcp (24 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 4,311 tokens to every session, about $0.0172 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 2026-08-31.

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