What is strapi-mcp-server CLAUDE.md?

A project instruction file for developing and debugging a server built with TypeScript and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard for connecting AI tools to services.

Use it to build or watch the project, start its development server, adjust log detail, enable monitoring or request tracking, sanitize logged data, and inspect the server with MCP Inspector.

It gives coding agents the commands, logging options, feature switches, and testing instructions needed to work consistently in the repository.

How misterboe/strapi-mcp-server configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to misterboe/strapi-mcp-server. 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/misterboe/strapi-mcp-server/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/misterboe/strapi-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 1,061 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,061 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01061	$0.01061
Opus 5.5	$0.00424	$0.00424
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00212	$0.00212
Haiku 4.5	$0.00106	$0.00106

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f212c845a10f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strapi-mcp-server 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 1mo 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 · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Development Commands

npm run build - Compile TypeScript to build/ directory and make executable
npm run build:watch - Build with watch mode for development
npm run start - Start the compiled server from build/index.js
npm run dev - Run src/index.ts directly via Node type stripping (--experimental-transform-types, Node >= 22.7)
npm run dev:watch - Same with node --watch for hot reload during development

Debugging

Enable detailed logging via environment variables:

# Log levels: ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, TRACE
MCP_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG npm run dev

# Enable/disable specific features
MCP_ENABLE_REQUEST_TRACKING=true
MCP_ENABLE_PERFORMANCE_MONITORING=true
MCP_SANITIZE_DATA=true
MCP_MAX_LOG_LENGTH=10000
MCP_INCLUDE_STACK_TRACE=true

# Enable MCP SDK debug logging
DEBUG=mcp:* npm run dev

Testing with MCP Inspector:

npm install -g @modelcontextprotocol/inspector
mcp-inspector  # Start inspector at http://localhost:5173

Architecture

Single-File Design

The entire server is implemented in src/index.ts (~1800 lines). Key sections in order:

Logging System (lines ~56-424) - McpLogger class with structured JSON logging to stderr
Zod Validation Schemas (lines ~454-627) - Input validation for all 5 tools
Version Differences (lines ~747-826) - STRAPI_VERSION_DIFFERENCES constant for v4/v5
Configuration (lines ~828-851) - Loads from ~/.mcp/strapi-mcp-server.config.json
Server Setup (lines ~853-1024) - MCP server with capabilities including security policy
Helper Functions (lines ~1026-1167) - getServerConfig, makeStrapiRequest, image processing
Tool Handlers (lines ~1241-1675) - ListToolsRequestSchema and CallToolRequestSchema handlers
REST/Upload Functions (lines ~1678-1812) - makeRestRequest, handleStrapiError

Validation Flow

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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.

1mo ago Changed · +17 tokens per session f212c845a10f
2mo ago First seen · 115 lines · 1,044 tokens per session scan A f7b0bf5086b3

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strapi-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository misterboe/strapi-mcp-server (75 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,061 tokens to every session, about $0.0042 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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