Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to RedHatInsights/insights-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/RedHatInsights/insights-mcp/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RedHatInsights/insights-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/redhatinsights/insights-mcp/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/redhatinsights/insights-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/redhatinsights/insights-mcp/agents-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.02746 | $0.02746 |
| Opus 5 | $0.01373 | $0.01373 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00549 | $0.00549 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00275 | $0.00275 |
Grade A, and why
insights-mcp AGENTS.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 6d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 304 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Insights MCP - AI Coding Assistant Guide
This document provides AI coding assistants with specific guidance for working with the Insights MCP codebase. Start by reading README.md for project overview, authentication setup, and client integrations.
This guide supplements the README with development-specific information and workflow guidance for AI coding assistants.
Architecture
Core Components
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InsightsMCPServer (
src/insights_mcp/server.py)- Main unified server that mounts multiple service toolsets
- Handles authentication and configuration for all mounted toolsets
- Supports selective toolset registration via
--toolsetargument
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InsightsMCP Base Class (
src/insights_mcp/mcp.py)- Abstract base class for all Insights MCP toolsets
- Manages authentication and client initialization
- Provides common functionality for Red Hat Insights API integration
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InsightsClient (
src/insights_mcp/client.py)- HTTP client for Red Hat Insights APIs with OAuth2 support
- Handles service account and refresh token authentication
- Provides error handling and proxy support
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OAuth Middleware (
src/insights_mcp/oauth.py)- Starlette middleware for OAuth flows in HTTP/SSE transports
- Dynamic client registration and metadata proxying
Toolset Architecture
The project uses a toolset-based architecture where each service is implemented as a separate toolset:
Toolset Implementation Pattern:
- Most toolsets:
src/<toolset_name>_mcp/server.py(e.g.,src/vulnerability_mcp/server.py) - Legacy pattern:
src/insights_mcp/servers/<name>.py(e.g., example toolset)
Example toolsets (see src/insights_mcp/toolsets.py MCPS list for complete current list):
- image-builder (
src/image_builder_mcp/server.py): Linux image building tools - vulnerability (
src/vulnerability_mcp/server.py): Security vulnerability management - inventory (
src/inventory_mcp/server.py): System inventory management
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 304 lines · 2,746 tokens per session scan A e3343b0b88a7
insights-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository RedHatInsights/insights-mcp (24 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,746 tokens to every session, about $0.0137 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 2026-08-30.
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