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CLAUDE.md

nakama-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from mlger/nakama-mcp. It costs 2,279 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for an MCP server that connects coding agents to a running Nakama game backend. Nakama provides player and administrator APIs for accounts, storage, leaderboards, searches, and other game operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building, running, testing, and understanding the Nakama MCP server and its client and administrator operations.
Why use it?
They explain the server’s commands, architecture, authentication model, and how it communicates with Nakama, reducing guesswork when developing or testing it.

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

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CLAUDE.md · 87 lines

How it starts

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CLAUDE.md

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

What this is

An MCP server that exposes a running Heroic Labs Nakama instance to MCP hosts. It speaks stdio by default, or a stateful streamable-HTTP transport when MCP_TRANSPORT=http (see src/http.ts in Architecture, and the HTTP gotchas in Conventions). It wraps Nakama's two HTTP APIs:

  • Client API (:7350) — player-facing (auth, accounts, storage, leaderboards, RPCs).
  • Console API (:7351) — admin/ops (search players, storage, status, ban).

Nakama exposes ~180 operations, so rather than one tool per endpoint the server uses a search + execute design over a generated catalog, plus ~12 promoted convenience tools for the most common jobs. Source is TypeScript (ESM, strict); there is no runtime framework beyond the MCP SDK and zod (HTTP uses bare node:http + the SDK's StreamableHTTPServerTransport).

Commands

npm run build              # tsc -> dist/
npm run dev                # tsc --watch
npm test                   # fast suite, no server: resolve + redact + smoke + http + http-reaper
npm run test:integration   # live suite over stdio: needs `docker compose up -d --wait` first
npm run test:http-integration   # live suite over the streamable-HTTP transport (same prerequisite)
MCP_TRANSPORT=http MCP_AUTH_TOKEN=s3cret npm start   # run as a remote HTTP server (default is stdio)
npm run regen-catalog          # rebuild data/catalog.json from Nakama master (needs network)
npm run regen-catalog -- v3.37.0   # ...from a specific git ref/tag
npm run mcpb               # build + pack the MCPB desktop bundle -> dist-mcpb/nakama-mcp.mcpb

Run a single test directly (each is a standalone Node script, not a framework):

node test/resolve.test.mjs       # also: npm run test:resolve
node test/redact.test.mjs        # also: npm run test:redact
node test/smoke.mjs              # also: npm run test:smoke (stdio protocol surface)
node test/http.test.mjs          # also: npm run test:http (spawns server in http mode, ephemeral port)
node test/http-config.test.mjs   # config parsing + bind security guardrail
node test/console-auth.test.mjs  # shared ConsoleAuth holder / in-flight login guard
node test/http-reaper.test.mjs   # also: npm run test:http-reaper (idle-session reaper)
node test/integration.mjs        # also: npm run test:integration (live server over stdio)
node test/http-integration.test.mjs  # also: npm run test:http-integration (live server over HTTP)

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