mcp-signal: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

mcp-signal CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Sealjay/mcp-signal. It costs 196 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for mcp-signal, a local tool that reads and searches Signal Desktop data and sends Signal messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or maintaining the mcp-signal server, including its tests, commands, and message features.
Why use it?
It gives the agent the project’s structure, commands, language rules, and limits so changes follow the repository’s expectations.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

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

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Sealjay/mcp-signal. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
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Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.00098
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00020

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Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-signal 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 8d 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 · 34 lines

What it actually says

mcp-signal

Minimal Signal MCP server: read and search Signal Desktop data locally via signal-export, then send outbound messages via signal-cli JSON-RPC.

Commands

uv sync
uv run signal-mcp smoke
uv run pytest
uv run ruff check .

Structure

src/mcp_signal/
  config.py       Environment parsing and defaults
  reader.py       Signal Desktop read/search via sigexport
  signal_cli.py   signal-cli JSON-RPC wrapper for send + group resolution
  link_manager.py signal-cli device-linking + QR URI capture
  server.py       FastMCP tool registration
  main.py         CLI entry point (serve / smoke)
tests/

Constraints

  • British English for prose, American English in code.
  • Pin Python dependencies exactly.
  • Keep the first release intentionally small: read/search/send only.
  • Prefer clear tool errors over silent fallbacks.
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. 8d ago First seen · 34 lines · 196 tokens per session scan A c48719b1ac12

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mcp-signal CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Sealjay/mcp-signal (0 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 196 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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