IncubatorMCP: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

IncubatorMCP AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from justinmclean/IncubatorMCP. It costs 875 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for IncubatorMCP, a server that combines Apache Incubator project data into oversight views. Apache Incubator is the ASF programme where new open-source projects grow toward becoming top-level projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding work on data loading, analysis, tool handlers, and schemas for project risk, release readiness, mentoring needs, trademark checks, and community health.
Why use it?
They explain the repository’s purpose, layout, defaults, and development workflow so an agent can make changes in the expected places.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md.

This is justinmclean/IncubatorMCP's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on IncubatorMCP 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 IncubatorMCP configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to justinmclean/IncubatorMCP. 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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/justinmclean/IncubatorMCP

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Grade A, and why

IncubatorMCP 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 8d ago.

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Nothing flagged

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AGENTS.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS

Purpose

This repository contains a small dependency-light MCP server for Apache Incubator PMC (IPMC) oversight views.

It composes lifecycle data from the apache-podlings-mcp package, health-report data from the apache-health-mcp package, cached report data from apache-incubator-reports-mcp, cached general-list mail data from apache-incubator-mail-mcp, release artifact data from apache-incubator-releases-mcp, and ASF naming / branding / third-party-use checks from apache-trademark-mcp into opinionated Incubator-level tools for podling risk, readiness, mentoring needs, release visibility, trademark compliance, and community-health summaries.

This is an IPMC / Incubator oversight MCP, not a board tool.

Project Layout

  • ipmc/data.py
    • Source loading, source MCP package imports, record composition, date helpers, and preferred health-window selection
  • ipmc/analysis.py
    • Opinionated IPMC scoring, risk signals, readiness assessment, confidence, and community pattern helpers
  • ipmc/tools.py
    • MCP tool handlers, argument validation helpers, and TOOLS registration
  • ipmc/schemas.py
    • Shared tool schema fragments and schema-builder helpers
  • ipmc/protocol.py
    • JSON-RPC/MCP stdio protocol handling
  • server.py
    • Thin entrypoint
  • tests/
    • Unit and integration tests
  • tests/fixtures.py
    • Shared Python test fixtures and temporary source helpers
  • docs/architecture.md
    • Module layout, runtime flow, design notes, and testing structure

Key Defaults And Concepts

  • podlings_source defaults to the ASF Incubator podlings.xml URL through PodlingsMCP.
  • health_source defaults to the --health-source startup argument, or reports if unset.
  • mail_source defaults to the --mail-source startup argument, or .cache/incubator-general-mail if unset.
  • trademark_cache defaults to the --trademark-cache startup argument, the IPMC_TRADEMARK_CACHE env var, or TrademarkMCP's default ~/.cache/apache-trademark-mcp.
  • Source MCP modules are imported from installed packages; local sibling checkouts are not required.
  • Oversight views focus on current podlings unless a lower-level helper explicitly includes non-current records.
  • Health analysis prefers the freshest available window in this order: 3m, 6m, 12m, to-date.
  • Outputs should keep source facts separate from derived IPMC opinions.
  • Tool names and descriptions should use IPMC / Incubator oversight language, not board language.

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What this file has done since we first saw it

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IncubatorMCP AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository justinmclean/IncubatorMCP (2 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 875 tokens to every session, about $0.0044 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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