Knot: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Knot CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ProjAnvil/Knot. It costs 1,921 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Knot, an API documentation system with an Svelte frontend, Go backend, and separate Go MCP server for AI integration. They describe the project layout and common development commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Working on Knot's frontend, backend, or MCP server, including starting development servers and creating production builds.
Why use it?
They give a coding agent the repository context and the correct commands for installing dependencies, developing, building, and running each part.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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CLAUDE.md · 228 lines

How it starts

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CLAUDE.md

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

Project Overview

Knot is an API documentation management system with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. It features a Svelte 5 frontend and Go backend, supports multiple databases (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL), and includes standalone CLI tools for both backend and MCP server management.

The project is structured as three independent components:

  • frontend/: Svelte 5 application (manages its own dependencies with bun/npm)
  • backend/: Go backend server
  • mcp-server/: Go MCP server for AI integration

Essential Commands

Frontend Development (Svelte 5 + Vite)

cd frontend
bun install              # Install dependencies
bun dev                  # Start dev server on port 5173 with hot reload
bun run build            # Build for production to dist/

Backend Development (Go + Chi + GORM)

cd backend
go mod download          # Download Go dependencies
make build               # Build binary to bin/knot-server
./bin/knot-server        # Run server on port 3000

# Development with auto-reload (using air)
air

# Build for all platforms
make build-all           # Outputs to dist/
make package-all         # Create distribution packages

MCP Server Development (Go)

cd mcp-server
go mod download          # Download Go dependencies
make build               # Build binary to bin/knot-mcp
./bin/knot-mcp          # Run MCP server

# Build for all platforms
make build-all           # Outputs to dist/

CLI Tool (knot)

The backend includes a CLI tool for server management:

cd backend
./bin/knot setup         # Initialize config at ~/.knot/config.json
./bin/knot start         # Start server in background
./bin/knot stop          # Stop running server
./bin/knot status        # Check server status and PID

Architecture

Database Layer

  • ORM: GORM (Go ORM) with multi-database support
  • Schema: Defined in backend/internal/models/
    • Group: API groupings
    • API: API endpoints (references groups)
    • Parameter: Request/response parameters with nested support (self-referencing for object/array types)
  • Migrations: Auto-migration via GORM's AutoMigrate on startup
  • Database Support: SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL with runtime switching

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Knot CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ProjAnvil/Knot (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,921 tokens to every session, about $0.0077 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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