email-local-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

email-local-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from MarcinWalendowski/email-local-mcp. It costs 951 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for email-local-mcp, a tool that provides access to email stored locally, covering naming, safety checks, and release practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding changes and releases in the email-local-mcp project, including updates to its marketing page.
Why use it?
It keeps code, product descriptions, and the public website aligned when the tool changes.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is MarcinWalendowski/email-local-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on email-local-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 email-local-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 951 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 951 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 $0.00951 $0.00951
Opus 5 $0.00476 $0.00476
Sonnet 5 $0.00190 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00095 $0.00095

Measured 9d ago against content hash 84a5aa241970, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

email-local-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 · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — Email Local MCP

Guidance for Claude Code working in this repo. This is a public, released project (npm, GitHub Releases, a Homebrew tap, a published landing page), so the workspace-level "pre-launch, no backward-compatibility burden" exception in the

workspace root CLAUDE.md (~/loki-labs/CLAUDE.md)

does not apply here. Real people have this installed.

The marketing page is part of the product, not a separate thing

Every change that alters what the product does, or what is true about it, must update the landing page in the same session as the code. Not "later", not a follow-up task. If the page still describes the previous behaviour after your commit, the change is not finished.

The page source is site/index.html on main, and tools/publish-site pushes it to the gh-pages branch. It used to live only on gh-pages, which is the structural reason it drifted: nothing in the tree anyone edits ever pointed at it, so no amount of good intentions kept it current. It is in main now precisely so that a change to the code and a change to the page happen in one working tree, in one diff, under one review.

What counts as "alters what is true about it":

  • A new capability, auth mode, provider, tool, or platform.
  • A change to how mail is handled, where credentials live, or what leaves the machine. These are load-bearing security claims, and the page states them as absolutes. An absolute claim is either true or it is a lie; there is no "mostly".
  • Install instructions, supported OSes, prerequisites, pricing, licence.
  • Anything the README's own security section says, because the page and the README must never disagree. When you edit one, diff the other.

What does not: internal refactors, test-only changes, comment edits, and anything a user could not observe.

Verify by grep, not by intention. After editing, grep the page for the claim you invalidated and prove the old wording is gone — the same negative-control rule tools/name-check exists to enforce for the old product name. A copy change that "looks updated" is the exact failure mode this rule was written after.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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 · 87 lines · 951 tokens per session scan A 84a5aa241970

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email-local-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository MarcinWalendowski/email-local-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 951 tokens to every session, about $0.0048 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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