mcp-audit: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

mcp-audit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from P4ST4S/mcp-audit. It costs 582 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, covering where to work, how to verify changes, and when to make a plan first.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide work on Go code, internal packages, command-line changes, proxy changes, tests, stable configuration and interface details, and public draft text.
Why use it?
They give the assistant project-specific rules, reducing mistakes such as running commands from the wrong folder or claiming work is complete without testing it.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is P4ST4S/mcp-audit's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on mcp-audit 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 mcp-audit configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to P4ST4S/mcp-audit. 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/P4ST4S/mcp-audit/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/P4ST4S/mcp-audit

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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Fable 5.1 $0.00582 $0.00582
Opus 5 $0.00291 $0.00291
Sonnet 5 $0.00116 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00058 $0.00058

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Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-audit 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 8d 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 · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@AGENTS.md

Claude Code specific

The instructions above apply to all agents. Below are notes specific to Claude Code sessions on this repository.

Working directory

Run Claude Code from the repo root. The build, test, and lint commands in AGENTS.md assume this.

Verification reflexes the maintainer values

When you make a non-trivial code change, the maintainer expects you to verify it concretely before claiming it's done:

  • Run go build ./... after touching Go code
  • Run go test -race ./... for any change that touches internal/
  • For changes to cmd/mcp-audit/ or internal/proxy/, run a manual smoke test against the built binary with demo/config.yaml before reporting completion
  • For test additions, run go test -shuffle=on -count=3 ./pkg-under-test/... to confirm the test doesn't depend on hidden state

If you skip verification, say so explicitly ("I haven't run the smoke test because X") rather than implying it passed.

Plan mode for surface changes

Use plan mode (EnterPlanMode) before changes that touch:

  • The stable surface listed in STABILITY.md: config keys, CLI flags, audit JSON schema, the signed field set, Prometheus metric names, OTLP mcp_audit.* attributes, dashboard API endpoints, or JSON-RPC error codes
  • Concurrency-sensitive code in internal/audit/storage/ (the SQLite mutex and the async-store closeMu lock both fix real prior bugs; touching them without a plan is risky)
  • Anything in cmd/mcp-audit/main.go that affects startup ordering or signal handling

For pure additions in internal/ packages (new tests, new feature flag wired through the existing pattern), plan mode is optional.

When asked to draft text the maintainer will post publicly

Some output here is destined for GitHub comments, Discord messages, or LinkedIn posts. House style:

  • Never use the em-dash character. Use commas, periods, or split the sentence.
  • Never use "we" when speaking on the maintainer's behalf — he is solo on this project.
  • Never say "Welcome to open source" or similar paternalistic greetings to contributors. Treat them as peers.
  • Don't post "thanks for the thanks." Once is enough.
  • If the message adds no new information, suggest an emoji reaction (👍 🎉 👀) instead of a comment.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 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.

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mcp-audit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository P4ST4S/mcp-audit (7 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 582 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 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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