pdfnative-mcp mcp-server.instructions.md

pdfnative-mcp mcp-server.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Nizoka/pdfnative-mcp. It costs 895 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for editing an MCP server. MCP is a standard way for an agent to connect to tools and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or changing MCP tools, JSON schemas, request handling, response handling, logging, or server transport.
Why use it?
It helps keep the server's transport, tool definitions, input validation, errors, shutdown behavior, and protocol responses consistent.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/nizoka/pdfnative-mcp/mcp-server
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nizoka/pdfnative-mcp

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00895 $0.00895
Opus 5 $0.00447 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00179 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00089 $0.00089

Measured 4d ago against content hash 72032e24880a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdfnative-mcp mcp-server.instructions.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 4d 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.

.github/instructions/mcp-server.instructions.md · 36 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 36 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Server Standards

Transport and lifecycle

  • stdio transport by default; Streamable HTTP when PDFNATIVE_MCP_PORT is set (loopback bind + Host/Origin guard; opt-in bearer token via PDFNATIVE_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN, see src/auth.ts).
  • SDK: @modelcontextprotocol/server ^2.0.0 (MCP 2026-07-28, automatic 2025-era fallback).
  • Gracefully close the server on SIGINT/SIGTERM.
  • Avoid writing to stdout except MCP protocol payloads (use stderr for logs).

Tool contract

  • Each tool module exports:
    • TOOL_NAME, TOOL_INPUT_SCHEMA, optional TOOL_OUTPUT_SCHEMA
    • handler(args: unknown)
  • Keep JSON schema and Zod validation aligned; Zod schemas are .strict() (unknown top-level or nested keys → VALIDATION_ERROR, matching additionalProperties: false).
  • Decode pdfBase64 / DER inputs through src/base64.ts (data: URI tolerated; PEM-vs-DER, double-encoding and empty-payload hints).
  • Return tool-level errors as isError responses with actionable messages — never throw across the MCP boundary. The one protocol-level exception: an unknown tool name on tools/call is a JSON-RPC -32602 error with message [UNKNOWN_TOOL] Unknown tool: <name>.
  • Every tool registered in src/server.ts must ship _meta.apiVersion (current TOOL_API_VERSION, see docs/API_STABILITY.md) and one or two executable _meta.examples (they are validated against inputSchema in tests; more examples belong in examples/*.json).
  • tools/list structure is pinned by tests/_fixtures/tool-shape.json (tests/catalogue-parity.test.ts). Wording is free; any change to types, enums, defaults, constraints, required, additionalProperties or example count needs node scripts/tool-shape.mjs --write and a review under docs/API_STABILITY.md §5. tests/catalogue-superset.test.ts additionally rejects any removal / narrowing against the frozen 1.5.0 fixture (tests/_fixtures/tool-shape.v1.5.0.json).
  • No $ref / $defs and no $schema keyword in input schemas (host compatibility); the 13-kind block union is therefore repeated in inspect_layout by design.
  • Update SERVER_INSTRUCTIONS (decision tree + pitfalls) whenever you add a tool or change its behaviour.

Read the full file on GitHub · 36 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.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 36 lines · 895 tokens per session scan A 72032e24880a

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pdfnative-mcp mcp-server.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Nizoka/pdfnative-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 895 tokens to every session, about $0.0045 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.