fastmcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

fastmcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from PrefectHQ/fastmcp. It costs 3 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of development instructions for FastMCP, a Python framework for building Model Context Protocol servers and clients. It describes the project layout, development workflow, core objects, and code-quality requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Developing FastMCP server and client features, finding code in the repository, installing dependencies, running tests, and performing static checks before committing.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents and developers a consistent way to change the project while checking that tests, formatting, linting, and type checks pass.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

About the project

FastMCP is a Python framework for building Model Context Protocol applications, which connect language models with tools and data through servers and clients. Developers use it to expose Python functions as tools, connect to local or remote MCP servers, and build interactive tool interfaces. The catalogue includes eight skills, three instructions, two rules, one setting, and one hook for FastMCP.

PrefectHQ/fastmcp · 28,322 stars · on GitHub · gofastmcp.com

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to PrefectHQ/fastmcp. 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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PrefectHQ/fastmcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 3 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00003 $0.00003
Opus 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00001
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00001
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00000

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a54ff182c7e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fastmcp 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 1mo 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 · 1 lines

What it actually says

AGENTS.md

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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fastmcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository PrefectHQ/fastmcp (28,322 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3 tokens to every session, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.

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