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AGENTS.md

scc-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from NicholasSynovic/scc-mcp. It costs 660 tokens per session, scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

Development instructions for an MCP server that gives an AI agent access to scc, a tool that counts code and measures code complexity. MCP is a standard way for an agent to use external tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Exposing code summaries, per-file counts, and language statistics through seven read-only tools, with Markdown or JSON output.
Why use it?
They explain how the server is organized, how it runs scc safely, and how its read-only tools should behave.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; mentions OpenCode.

This is NicholasSynovic/scc-mcp's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on scc-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 scc-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to NicholasSynovic/scc-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
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NicholasSynovic/scc-mcp

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Opus 5 $0.00330 $0.00330
Sonnet 5 $0.00132 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00066 $0.00066

Measured 7d ago against content hash 9f85f8b8afe0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scc-mcp AGENTS.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 7d 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.

AGENTS.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

What this is

MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes boyter/scc (a code-counting / complexity tool) to an LLM. Python project managed with uv.

Current state

uv project (Python 3.14). Dep: fastmcp (standalone v2); dev dep: pytest. Server exposes 7 read-only scc tools (see REQUIREMENTS.md). Registered as a local MCP in opencode.json via uv run scc-mcp.

Layout

  • scc_mcp/main.pyFastMCP instance + main(); imports each tool module and calls its register(mcp).
  • scc_mcp/runner.py — scc location, path safety, subprocess invocation (find_scc, validate_path, run_scc, run_scc_json, run_scc_no_path).
  • scc_mcp/models.pyResponseFormat enum + SccBaseInput (path, filters).
  • scc_mcp/format.pymarkdown_table + render (markdown default, JSON fallback).
  • scc_mcp/tools/{summary,byfile,languages}.py — tool defs grouped by scc backend (json2 / json --by-file / --languages). Each exposes register(mcp).

Commands

  • Install deps: uv sync
  • Add a dep: uv add <pkg> / dev dep: uv add --dev <pkg> (don't hand-edit deps)
  • Run server (stdio): uv run scc-mcp
  • Run tests: uv run pytest
  • Build artifacts: make build

Conventions / gotchas

  • Import is from fastmcp import FastMCP (standalone v2), NOT the official SDK's from mcp.server.fastmcp import FastMCP. The two APIs differ; follow fastmcp v2 docs.
  • Pydantic input models passed to @mcp.tool must be module-level, not defined inside a closure — FastMCP resolves type hints against module globals and will raise NameError otherwise.
  • scc is an external binary, not a Python dependency. Assume it is installed and on PATH — do NOT install it. Invocations must fail clearly if it is missing.
  • Only scan paths with read + execute access (os.access(p, os.R_OK | os.X_OK)); default to the current working directory.
  • Tests that shell out to scc are guarded by the requires_scc skip marker in tests/conftest.py; the sample_tree fixture builds a tmp multi-language project.
  • Useful scc machine-readable output: --format json2 (project summary + COCOMO), --format json --by-file (per-file stats incl. complexity), --languages (no path).

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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. 7d ago First seen · 43 lines · 660 tokens per session scan A 9f85f8b8afe0

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scc-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository NicholasSynovic/scc-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 660 tokens to every session, about $0.0033 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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