Smartschool-MCP: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

Smartschool-MCP copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from MauroDruwel/Smartschool-MCP. It costs 1,514 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-specific instruction file for developing a Smartschool MCP server. MCP, or Model Context Protocol, lets AI assistants connect to tools and services; these instructions document setup, commands, architecture, and checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when installing dependencies, running tests, linting, formatting, type-checking, or changing the Smartschool integration.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent the project’s expected commands and structure instead of making it infer them.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is MauroDruwel/Smartschool-MCP's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on Smartschool-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 Smartschool-MCP configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to MauroDruwel/Smartschool-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/MauroDruwel/Smartschool-MCP/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MauroDruwel/Smartschool-MCP

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Smartschool-MCP copilot-instructions.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 7d 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Smartschool MCP Development Guide

This is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that connects Claude and other AI assistants to Smartschool accounts. The server supports both stdio (Claude Desktop) and streamable-http (claude.ai remote) transports.

Commands

# Install all dependencies (including dev)
uv sync --extra dev

# Run all tests
uv run pytest

# Run a single test
uv run pytest tests/test_tools.py::test_get_courses_returns_list

# Run with coverage
uv run pytest --cov=smartschool_mcp --cov-report=term-missing

# Lint
uv run ruff check .

# Format (check only)
uv run ruff format --check .

# Format (apply)
uv run ruff format .

# Type check
uv run mypy smartschool_mcp/

CI runs lint → typecheck → tests (Python 3.10–3.13) in that order. All three must pass before merging.

Architecture

Core structure

The package is a single-file MCP server (smartschool_mcp/server.py) plus entry-point modules:

  • server.py — all MCP tool definitions with @mcp.tool() decorators; uses FastMCP("Smartschool MCP") as the server instance
  • __main__.py — CLI entry point handling transport selection (stdio vs streamable-http)
  • auth.py — OAuth 2.1 provider for universal mode (multi-user)
  • main.py — backward-compatibility shim (deprecated)

Transport modes

__main__.py handles two transports selected via --transport (or MCP_TRANSPORT env var):

  • stdio (default) — used by Claude Desktop; calls mcp.run() directly
  • streamable-http — used by claude.ai remote integrations; builds a Starlette ASGI app via mcp.streamable_http_app(), wraps it in CORSMiddleware (required so claude.ai can read Mcp-Session-Id), then optionally wraps that in _BearerAuthMiddleware (enabled by setting MCP_API_KEY). Served with uvicorn on MCP_HOST:MCP_PORT.

Single-user vs. Universal mode

  • Single-user — credentials in environment variables (SMARTSCHOOL_USERNAME, SMARTSCHOOL_PASSWORD, etc.); _env_session() returns a lazy-cached Smartschool(EnvCredentials()) instance
  • Universal — OAuth 2.1 flow with browser-based login form (auth.py); _cached_app_session() returns TTL-cached sessions per unique credential tuple (maxsize=256, TTL=SESSION_TTL_SECONDS default 3600)

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 7d ago First seen · 129 lines · 1,514 tokens per session scan A 8b5601262b7f

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Smartschool-MCP copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository MauroDruwel/Smartschool-MCP (4 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,514 tokens to every session, about $0.0076 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 2026-09-05.

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