pdf-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

pdf-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from sandraschi/pdf-mcp. It costs 148 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for pdf-mcp, a tool for working with PDF documents. It covers extracting and changing PDF content, interactive workbench tasks, and question answering over a collection of PDFs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or operating the PDF tool, especially for document extraction, manipulation, interactive workflows, and collection-based questions.
Why use it?
It tells a coding agent which workflows and tools to prefer and warns it not to index private documents or assume unavailable features.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is sandraschi/pdf-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on pdf-mcp 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 pdf-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sandraschi/pdf-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.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sandraschi/pdf-mcp/master/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sandraschi/pdf-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 148 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 148 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.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00148 $0.00148
Opus 5.5 $0.00059 $0.00059
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00030
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00015

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 14f2d1658a64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-mcp 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.

CLAUDE.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

pdf-mcp — Claude / agent context

PDF intelligence MCP. Ports 11130 (frontend) / 11131 (backend).

Do

  • Prefer portmanteau tools (pdf_extract, pdf_manipulate, …)
  • Use workbench/pipeline for interactive jobs; RAG for corpus Q&A
  • Follow docs/ONBOARDING.md / SPEC.md

Don't

  • Index confidential PDFs without Sandra's intent
  • Assume cloud OCR is wired
  • Commit data/ uploads or LanceDB indexes

Commands

.\start.ps1
just test
just lint

See AGENTS.md, SPEC.md, llms-full.txt.

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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 26 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A 14f2d1658a64

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pdf-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sandraschi/pdf-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 148 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 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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