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AGENTS.md

live-chemdraw-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from MALeitch/live-chemdraw-mcp. It costs 9,418 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction guide explains the structure and engineering rules of a ChemDraw connector. ChemDraw is desktop chemistry software, and the connector uses Windows COM to communicate with it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before extending, debugging, or reviewing the connector’s COM communication, domain logic, bridge layer, connection handling, or tests.
Why use it?
It preserves hard-won knowledge about ChemDraw’s unreliable COM behaviour so developers do not have to rediscover those problems while changing the code.

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

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AGENTS.md · 559 lines

How it starts

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AGENTS.md — live-chemdraw-mcp development notes

This file is for anyone reading the source in chemdraw_connector/ -- AI coding assistants and human contributors alike, whether you're extending it, debugging something, or just want to understand why it's built the way it is. Not for end users of the MCP server (see README.md for that): none of this matters if you're only talking to the server through Claude, since it exists precisely to hide these details from that caller. It covers the package layout and, more importantly, the ChemDraw COM quirks this connector was built around: most of these were only found by driving live ChemDraw and watching it misbehave, and re-deriving them from scratch is expensive. Read this before working in chemdraw_connector/ for any reason.

Architecture

chemdraw_connector/
  com/           COM plumbing only: worker (single STA thread, timeouts,
                 wedge detection), connection (attach/relaunch/reconnect),
                 types (COM enums <-> readable vocabulary)
  domain/        pure logic, zero COM imports, pytest-covered
  bridge/        the seam: every tool call goes through here
    __init__.py  composes ChemDrawBridge from the mixins below
    _annotations.py, _document_session.py, _enumeration.py, _layout.py,
    _manipulation.py, _plumbing.py, _properties_qc.py, _reaction.py,
    _selection.py, _shorthand.py, _specialty_objects.py, _state_diff.py,
    _stereochemistry.py, _structure_io.py,
    _style.py    one focused mixin per concern (document lifecycle,
                 layout, shorthand contraction, stereochemistry...)
  targets.py     structure addressing (tags, selection, doc) + safe
                 doc-scoped atom/bond access
  state.py       canvas snapshots for get_document_state / diff
  snapshots.py   automatic .cdxml backups before batch operations
tools/           thin MCP tool definitions
server.py        FastMCP entry point (stdio)

docs/com_typelib/ — a live COM reflection dump of ChemDraw's full type library (interfaces/methods/enums), plus the reusable probe scripts that generated it. This is the source of truth for COM surface confirmed to exist but not yet implemented in this connector (native stoichiometry grids, Markush/alt-groups, as of the 2026-07-21 capture — mechanism/reaction arrow types, atom isotope labeling, reaction symbols, enhanced-stereo flags, polymer brackets, and TLC plates are now implemented, see README.md's Capabilities section) — see its own README for details.

Read the full file on GitHub · 559 lines

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live-chemdraw-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository MALeitch/live-chemdraw-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9,418 tokens to every session, about $0.0471 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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