What is synapse-research CLAUDE.md?

A project-specific instruction set for Synapse Research, a research app with a Python server and a React web interface. It explains the project's structure, setup commands, and how its research tool works.

Use it when developing, testing, installing, or building the Synapse Research server and interface.

It gives the coding agent the project context needed to work consistently, reducing guesswork about architecture, dependencies, and build steps.

How NimbleBrainInc/synapse-research configures Claude Code

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Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf deps/ && uv pip install --target ./deps .

CLAUDE.md · 160 lines

How it starts

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synapse-research

Deep-research MCP app with a task-augmented tool that runs GPT-Researcher under the hood. Two-project architecture: Python MCP server (FastMCP) + React/Vite UI (Synapse SDK).

Architecture

synapse-research/
├── src/mcp_research/         Python MCP server (FastMCP)
│   ├── server.py             Tool registration, orphan reaper, ui:// resource
│   └── worker.py             run_research + _MCPLogHandler (GPT-Researcher wrapper)
├── schemas/                  Upjack entity JSON schemas
│   └── research_run.schema.json
├── skills/                   Natural-language skill definitions bundled with the app
│   └── research-runs/SKILL.md
├── ui/                       React + Vite project (Synapse SDK)
│   ├── src/App.tsx           Live dashboard of runs via useDataSync
│   ├── vite.config.ts        synapseVite() plugin for dev
│   └── dist/index.html       Built single-file bundle
└── tests/                    pytest-asyncio suite — keyless (FakeGPTR fixture)

How it connects: start_research is registered as a task-augmented MCP tool (execution.taskSupport: "optional"). The worker wraps GPT-Researcher and streams progress through two channels in lockstep — ctx.report_progress for the MCP task status stream (drives the chat UI), and app.update_entity for the Upjack entity store (drives the Synapse sidebar dashboard).

Commands

# Install server deps
uv sync

# Install UI deps + build
cd ui && npm install && npm run build && cd ..

# Run tests (keyless — no API keys required)
uv run pytest tests/ -v

# Lint + typecheck + format check
uv run ruff check src/ tests/
uv run ruff format --check src/ tests/
uv run ty check src/

# Run stdio (Claude Desktop, mpak, any MCP client)
uv run python -m mcp_research.server

# Run HTTP (NimbleBrain platform)
uv run uvicorn mcp_research.server:app --port 8002

# Build deps/ for mpak bundling (regenerates 460+ vendored packages)
rm -rf deps/ && uv pip install --target ./deps .

# Bump version across manifest.json, pyproject.toml, __init__.py
make bump VERSION=0.2.0

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

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synapse-research CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository NimbleBrainInc/synapse-research (0 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,353 tokens to every session, about $0.0094 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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