tdmcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

tdmcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Pantani/tdmcp. It costs 7,093 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for tdmcp, an MCP server that lets AI tools control TouchDesigner through a local bridge. They describe the repository, its documentation site, architecture, setup commands, and quality checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on tdmcp code, its VitePress documentation, knowledge-base imports, builds, tests, or bridge integration.
Why use it?
They give coding agents the project context needed to build, test, lint, and document changes correctly, including the separate server and TouchDesigner bridge.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is Pantani/tdmcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on tdmcp 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 tdmcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security

Grade A, and why

tdmcp 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 3d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

CLAUDE.md · 428 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 428 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What this is

tdmcp is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for TouchDesigner. Three programs talk to each other on one machine:

MCP client ──stdio/HTTP──▶ tdmcp server (Node/TS, this repo) ──HTTP REST──▶ TD bridge (Python, td/)
(Claude / Cursor / Codex)   tools + operator knowledge base      runs inside TouchDesigner on :9980

The Node server exposes TouchDesigner "tools" + an embedded operator knowledge base to an AI; the Python bridge running inside TD actually creates/connects/ inspects/previews nodes. The server stays usable when TD is offline (tools return friendly errors).

Commands

# First-time setup (knowledge base must be generated before build/test)
npm install
npm run import:bottobot      # populates src/knowledge/data from @bottobot/td-mcp
npm run build                # tsc + tsup + copy-assets -> dist/

# Core PR gates (CI also runs import:bottobot, validate:recipes, build:mcpb, and test:bridge)
npm run typecheck            # tsc --noEmit
npm run build
npm run lint                 # biome check .  (npm run format to auto-fix)
npm test                     # vitest run

npm run dev                  # run the server from TS (tsx src/index.ts), no build
npm run validate:recipes     # validate recipes/*.json against RecipeSchema

# Tests (offline; the bridge is mocked with msw — no TouchDesigner needed)
npx vitest run tests/unit/createWaveform.test.ts   # single file
npx vitest run -t "edge-blend"                      # single test by name
npm run test:bridge          # Python bridge tests: python3 -m unittest discover -s td/tests

# Local coverage harness (not a CI gate unless the workflow is updated)
npm run test:coverage        # vitest run --coverage, TS sources only
npm run coverage:harness     # coverage report + ranked next test gaps

# Docs (VitePress site under docs/)
npm run docs:dev             # docs:gen then vitepress dev
npm run build:mcpb           # bundle the one-click Claude Desktop .mcpb (formerly .dxt)

Read the full file on GitHub · 428 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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tdmcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Pantani/tdmcp (39 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7,093 tokens to every session, about $0.0355 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 2026-09-03.

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