buspirate-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

buspirate-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from mplogas/buspirate-mcp. It costs 1,557 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for developing buspirate-mcp, a connector that lets a coding agent communicate with Bus Pirate 6 electronics hardware.

In plain words
What is it for?
They are for understanding the codebase, testing its hardware layer, and deciding which Bus Pirate actions can run automatically or require human approval.
Why use it?
They give the agent the project’s structure, hardware details, and safety rules for operations that can change connected devices.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is mplogas/buspirate-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on buspirate-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 buspirate-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mplogas/buspirate-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.

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Clone the repo
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Grade A, and why

buspirate-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 9d ago.

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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 · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 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.

Project

buspirate-mcp is an MCP server that wraps the BusPirate 6's BPIO2 binary protocol SDK, exposing UART, power supply, GPIO, and flash-dump operations as MCP tools over stdio transport.

Architecture

MCP client (Claude Code, etc.)
  |
  stdio transport
  |
buspirate-mcp (server.py)
  |
  tools.py -> hardware.py -> BPIO2 SDK
  |
BusPirate 6 -> Target Device

Only hardware.py imports from the BPIO2 SDK. Everything else talks to hardware.py. This makes mocking trivial for tests.

Safety Model

Three tiers enforced at the MCP server boundary:

  • read-only: full autonomy (list_devices, verify_connection, scan_baud, read_output, spi_probe, spi_read, spi_dump, spi_transfer, i2c_scan, i2c_read, i2c_dump, onewire_search, onewire_read, la_command, la_analyze, la_identify)
  • allowed-write: autonomous but logged (open_uart, send_command, close_uart, enter_download_mode, read_flash, open_spi, close_spi, open_i2c, close_i2c, open_1wire, close_1wire, la_prepare, la_cleanup)
  • approval-write: blocks until human confirms via _confirmed token (set_voltage, set_power, spi_write, i2c_write)

Wrong voltage fries chips. Writing SPI flash or I2C devices overwrites data irreversibly. Do not bypass or weaken the approval-write gate.

BusPirate 6 Hardware Notes

BPIO2 binary mode

The BP6 must have BPIO2 binary mode enabled before the SDK can talk to it. Enable via the terminal port (ACM0): binmode -> select 2 (BPIO2 flatbuffer interface) -> y to save. This persists across reboots.

Pin mapping (UART)

BP6 UART mode uses IO4 (TX->) and IO5 (RX<-). The BP display is the authoritative source for pin assignment.

Beware: status_request() returns a mode_pin_labels array that includes VOUT at index 0, shifting all labels by one. Index 5 in the labels array = physical IO4, index 6 = IO5. Trust the display, not the raw array indices.

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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buspirate-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mplogas/buspirate-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,557 tokens to every session, about $0.0078 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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