Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to PurdueRCAC/globus-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.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PurdueRCAC/globus-mcp/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PurdueRCAC/globus-mcpWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/purduercac/globus-mcp/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/purduercac/globus-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/purduercac/globus-mcp/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/purduercac/globus-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/purduercac/globus-mcp/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.07783 | $0.07783 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.03113 | $0.03113 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01557 | $0.01557 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00778 | $0.00778 |
Grade A, and why
globus-mcp AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.
Runs shell commandslowCapability
Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.
- **Never build a shell string; never pass `shell=True`.** `globus()` runs `subprocess.run([...])` How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 454 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Guidance for coding agents (Claude Code and others) working in this repository.
CLAUDE.md is a symlink to this file — edit AGENTS.md, never a separate copy. (.claude
is likewise a symlink to .agents, so Claude Code discovers the factory skills and settings
through it.)
This document is the operating manual: the architecture, the load-bearing invariants, and the process rules an autonomous agent needs to make correct, safe changes here without rediscovering them each session. When something below disagrees with the code, the code is ground truth — fix this file.
Not to be confused with the agent-facing docs this server ships.
SERVER_INSTRUCTIONSinsrc/globus_mcp/server.pytells an MCP client how to use the Globus tools;README.mdtells a human the same. This file is about building the server. All three must stay consistent — see § "Agent-facing documentation is part of the code."
Project
globus-mcp is a FastMCP server that gives AI agents federated data transfer and remote code execution across research storage systems worldwide. It is a thin, opinionated wrapper over two upstream surfaces:
- Globus Transfer, driven by shelling out to the
globusCLI (src/globus_mcp/cli.py) — endpoints, filesystem ops, transfers, tasks. - Globus Compute, driven by the
globus-compute-sdk(src/globus_mcp/compute.py) — registering Python source and running it on remote HPC endpoints.
There is deliberately no persistent state, no database, and no long-lived scheduler: every tool
is a stateless call that translates agent intent into an upstream request and shapes the reply. The
value is in the translation layer — argument construction, error classification, consent recovery,
and the worker_init provisioning script — not in orchestration.
The blast radius is unusual for a package this small. 1,800 lines of Python sit in front of
petabyte-scale institutional storage and job execution on shared supercomputers. A wrong path in a
delete, a mis-provisioned environment on a login node, a corrupted protocol channel — these are
not local bugs. Read § "Verification without touching production" before you run anything.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 454 lines · 7,783 tokens per session scan A 53d830309bbe
globus-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository PurdueRCAC/globus-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7,783 tokens to every session, about $0.0311 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
globus-mcp AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| globus-mcp AGENTS.mdPurdueRCAC/globus-mcp | Instructions file | 2 | 2mo ago | MIT | A | 7,783 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |