Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to NimaZahediN/openalex-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.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NimaZahediN/openalex-mcp/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NimaZahediN/openalex-mcpWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nimazahedin/openalex-mcp/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nimazahedin/openalex-mcp/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nimazahedin/openalex-mcp/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nimazahedin/openalex-mcp/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nimazahedin/openalex-mcp/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00371 | $0.00371 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00186 | $0.00186 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00074 | $0.00074 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00037 | $0.00037 |
Grade A, and why
openalex-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 11d 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.
What it actually says
Instructions
- Never use emojis in your code
- Always use modern dependency management tools like uv or uvx
- Always use Context7 instead of WebFetch for researching technical documentation and frameworks
- Avoid using phrases like 'Generated with Claude Code' in commit messages. Instead, make the commit look like it was written naturally by a person.
Key technical decisions and patterns:
- Used FastMCP framework for MCP server implementation
- No authentication required - OpenAlex is completely free and open
- Created modular architecture with separate concerns (client, models, utils, server)
- Used UV for modern Python dependency management
- Implemented both standard and OSINT-focused tools
- Focus on research intelligence and network analysis use cases
- Added email support for "polite pool" better rate limits
Key Technical Concepts:
- FastMCP: Python framework for building MCP servers and clients
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): Standardized protocol for AI-application integration
- OpenAlex: Free scholarly database with 240M+ works, no API key required
- OSINT: Open Source Intelligence gathering from public scholarly data
- httpx: Modern async HTTP client for Python
- Pydantic: Data validation with BaseModel for type-safe models
- Citation Networks: Mapping research influence through citations
- Collaboration Networks: Tracking co-authorship and institutional partnerships
- Temporal Analysis: Time-series research trends
- Funding Intelligence: Tracking research grants and funders
- Entity IDs: W-numbers for works, A-numbers for authors, I-numbers for institutions
- Rate Limits: 100K requests/day, 10 req/sec (generous limits)
- Polite Pool: Better performance by adding email to requests
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 29 lines · 371 tokens per session scan A 6b438fb1f7c7
openalex-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository NimaZahediN/openalex-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 371 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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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