What is dspace-mcp CLAUDE.md?

Instructions for a read-only MCP server that lets an AI assistant query DSpace 7 or newer repositories through their web API. DSpace is a platform used by universities and organizations to publish and store research materials.

Working on repository code that searches published or, when configured, non-public DSpace materials without modifying them.

It explains the server’s read-only limits, login modes, commands, and project design so changes do not accidentally add unsupported operations.

How mpasternak/dspace-mcp configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mpasternak/dspace-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/mpasternak/dspace-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mpasternak/dspace-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 2,347 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,347 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	$0.02347	$0.02347
Opus 5.5	$0.00939	$0.00939
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00469	$0.00469
Haiku 4.5	$0.00235	$0.00235

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 89130250d240, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dspace-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 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 · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 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.

What this is

A read-only MCP server that lets an LLM query any DSpace 7+ repository over its REST API. No writes, one DSpace instance per process. Published on PyPI as dspace-mcp.

Anonymous by default. Optionally, credentials can be configured to also read non-public material (design 2026-07-24-optional-read-authentication-design.md, decisions A1–A9) — which makes the login POST the single non-GET request in the codebase. Read scope became configurable; inability to write did not.

The mode is the process's identity, not its state (design 2026-07-25-two-tool-profiles-design.md, P1–P9). Whether credentials are configured picks one of two profiles, and the profile shapes the server name, the instructions text, the tool list and the tool signatures — the public profile has no as_anonymous argument anywhere. Nothing switches mid-process: a failed login exits with code 3 rather than negotiating with the model.

Commands

uv sync --dev                          # install (including dev deps)
uv run pytest                          # unit tests, offline (default: -m 'not live')
uv run pytest -m live                  # contract tests against a live instance
uv run pytest tests/test_tools.py      # one file
uv run pytest -k some_test_name        # one test by name substring
uv run ruff check .                    # lint
uv run ruff format --check .           # format check (CI runs this; --fix to apply)
uv run dspace-mcp --base-url https://demo.dspace.org/server   # run the server

Live tests hit demo.dspace.org by default; point DSPACE_TEST_URL at another instance to retarget.
CI runs lint + format check + pytest -q across Python 3.10–3.13. pytest -q excludes live tests via addopts.

Architecture

A strict layered pipeline. Data flows inward (MCP → tools → client → network) and shaped results flow back outward. Respect the layer boundaries when editing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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 First seen · 141 lines · 2,347 tokens per session scan A 89130250d240

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dspace-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mpasternak/dspace-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,347 tokens to every session, about $0.0094 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 2026-08-31.

Backend and APIs LLM Research dspace institutional-repository mcp model-context-protocol open-access

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Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

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dspace-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

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What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

CLAUDE.md

What this is

Commands

Architecture

What this file has done since we first saw it

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