Novada-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Novada-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from NovadaLabs/Novada-mcp. It costs 1,065 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project-specific instructions for Novada MCP, a monorepo containing multiple related artifacts. A monorepo is one repository that holds more than one project or component.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on the Novada MCP monorepo and its two one-line artifacts.
Why use it?
It explains the repository’s layout and which folder to edit, reducing the chance of changing the wrong component.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to NovadaLabs/Novada-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.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NovadaLabs/Novada-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NovadaLabs/Novada-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 1,065 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01065 $0.01065
Opus 5.5 $0.00426 $0.00426
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00213 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00106 $0.00106

Measured 4d ago against content hash a906b92ee9c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Novada-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 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.

CLAUDE.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.

CLAUDE.md — Novada MCP Monorepo

This repo is a monorepo with two shipped artifacts (plus supporting dirs, see Layout). Read the routing table before editing.

The two shipped artifacts (one-liners)

  • npm-package/ IS the novada-mcp npm package users run locally via npx novada-mcp (a local stdio MCP server). Tool logic lives here.
  • hosted-server/ IS what runs at https://mcp.novada.com — an HTTP wrapper (auth + rate-limit) around npm-package. Since 2026-10-29 production runs on AWS EC2 (Frankfurt; hosted-server/ec2/: nginx → two Node instances novada-mcp@3000/@3001). The Vercel project is a hot standby until it is paused (~2026-11-05).

Which folder do I edit?

Task Path
Tool logic (behavior, add/remove a tool) npm-package/src/tools/
Auth / rate-limit / token validation hosted-server/vercel/api/mcp.ts
Ship hosted (mcp.novada.com, EC2) re-vendor + commit, then hosted-server/ec2/deploy-ec2.sh (see note below)
Restart hosted after an env change hosted-server/ec2/restart-rolling.sh — never systemctl restart
npm release npm-package/ — REDLINE: owner approval

Rules

  • mcp.novada.com is a bare API endpoint (since 2026-07-10, matching Bright Data/Firecrawl/Tavily) — vercel.json routes everything except /mcp and /:key/mcp through a catch-all /(.*) → api/mcp.ts, which returns a bare JSON pointer at / and a clean 404 for anything unmatched. No marketing HTML lives here anymore — that content is hosted-server/landing/ (separate deploy target for novada.com, out of scope for this project). If Vercel Analytics or Speed Insights is ever enabled on this project, add an explicit /_vercel/(.*) passthrough rule ABOVE the catch-all in vercel.json first — otherwise the catch-all will swallow /_vercel/insights/* and /_vercel/speed-insights/* before Vercel's own routes get a chance.
  • Never edit hosted-server/vercel/vendor/ by hand. It is generated by deploy-hosted.sh (which builds npm-package/ and rsyncs its build/ output into the vendor dir). Hand edits will be overwritten on the next deploy.
  • REDLINE: no npm publish, no vercel deploy, no version bump, no push without explicit owner approval.
  • Tool logic has ONE home: npm-package/src/. The hosted server consumes the built artifact — it never forks tool behavior.
  • hosted-server/scripts/deploy-hosted.sh deploys from hosted-server/ (the Vercel project root) and vendors from ../npm-package. ⚠️ Since the EC2 cutover it still deploys to Vercel (standby), while its VERIFY phase curls mcp.novada.com, which is now EC2 — use it only for its BUILD/VENDOR/GATES phases until it is re-pointed; production deploys go through hosted-server/ec2/deploy-ec2.sh (one instance at a time, health-gated, auto-rollback).
  • EC2 hosted ops: zero-downtime restarts only (restart-rolling.sh / deploy-ec2.sh). A plain systemctl restart caused a 75 s outage on 2026-10-29 — see hosted-server/ec2/MIGRATE-TO-TEMPLATE-UNIT.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 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 Changed · +4 lines · +311 tokens per session a906b92ee9c2
  2. 11d ago Changed · +5 lines · +87 tokens per session 560787f096d5
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 34 lines · 667 tokens per session scan A 7337ee2a47c9

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Novada-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository NovadaLabs/Novada-mcp (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,065 tokens to every session, about $0.0043 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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