homelab-asset-db-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

homelab-asset-db-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from McCavity/homelab-asset-db-mcp. It costs 638 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for AI coding agents working on a server that reads a Markdown homelab asset database. A homelab is a privately managed collection of computers and network devices at home.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding maintenance of the server, including its four read-only lookup tools, database path settings, and parser changes.
Why use it?
It explains the project's design, data-protection rules, parser behavior, and coding conventions so changes fit the repository and avoid exposing private inventory details.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is McCavity/homelab-asset-db-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on homelab-asset-db-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 homelab-asset-db-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to McCavity/homelab-asset-db-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/McCavity/homelab-asset-db-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/McCavity/homelab-asset-db-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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Opus 5 $0.00319 $0.00319
Sonnet 5 $0.00128 $0.00128
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Security

Grade A, and why

homelab-asset-db-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 10d 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 · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

homelab-asset-db-mcp — Conventions for AI agents

Last update: 2026-07-17

This file orients AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) working on this repository. Humans should read README.md first.

What this project is

A Model Context Protocol server that exposes a Markdown-based homelab asset database as four read-only lookup tools. Sibling to iobroker-mcp, paperless-bulk-mcp and nanobanana-render-mcp — same FastMCP scaffolding, different domain. Transport: stdio. Framework: FastMCP.

Key design choices

  • Single server.py, no package split. Four tools, ~300 lines. Split only if it grows well past that.
  • Data lives in a file the user owns, not in this repo. The real asset-db.md is gitignored; only the fictional asset-db.sample.md is committed. This keeps private homelab data (IPs, MACs, hostnames) out of a public repository — never add a real inventory here.
  • Path resolution: ASSET_DB_PATH env wins, else the bundled sample. A non-overriding .env loader (next to server.py) is a manual-run convenience; an MCP host's env config always takes precedence.
  • Parse on every call, no cache. The file is small; correctness beats a stale cache. Add mtime-invalidation only if inventories get large.
  • Bilingual section headings. CATEGORY_MAP recognises both English and German headings so the same parser serves an English sample and a German production DB. Add new headings there, not by special-casing the parser.

Parser contract

  • ## Heading starts a section; the first |...| row after it is the header, subsequent rows are devices.
  • A section whose heading is not in CATEGORY_MAP is skipped (treated as prose/documentation).
  • Ragged rows (cell count ≠ header count) are skipped, not fatal.
  • A blank line resets table state, so two tables separated by prose relearn their headers.
  • _normalize_value maps empty cells and dashes (, -, ) to None; _record_summary drops None fields from tool output.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 10d ago First seen · 56 lines · 638 tokens per session scan A 88f7fc1449e4

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homelab-asset-db-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository McCavity/homelab-asset-db-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 638 tokens to every session, about $0.0032 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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