What is shamela-mcp CLAUDE.md?

A set of instructions for developing Shamela MCPB, an installable MCP Bundle that provides access to Maktabah al-Shamela, a digital library of Arabic and Islamic texts.

It guides repository maintenance, Node and Java builds, tests, smoke checks, packaging, releases, and platform-specific development.

It explains how maintainers build, test, package, benchmark, and release the server across macOS, Windows, and Linux.

How SMSMy/shamela-mcp configures Claude Code

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Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 5,244 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 5,244 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 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.05244	$0.05244
Opus 5	$0.02622	$0.02622
Sonnet 5	$0.01049	$0.01049
Haiku 4.5	$0.00524	$0.00524

Measured 4d ago against content hash 654632051b8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shamela-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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to shamela-mcp CLAUDE.md — 45 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

CLAUDE.md · 353 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 353 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

shamela-mcpb — Agent Context

This repo packages a Maktabah al-Shamela 4 search server as an .mcpb (MCP Bundle) installable into any MCP host — Claude Desktop, DSH, OpenClaw, and others. Architecture, IPC contract, citation format, and roadmap live in docs/.

This file is the developer/maintainer guide (build, test, branching, release). Agents that USE the running server — search, citations, per-host registration — read AGENTS.md instead.

Build commands

All scripts are Node-based (no PowerShell) so they run on Windows + macOS + Linux:

npm install                 # one time per checkout
npm run build               # esbuild Node + javac Java helper
npm run build:lib           # tsc → dist/lib (the importable library; also runs on npm install)
npm run test                # unit + integration suite (vitest)
npm run smoke               # exercise every tool against the local Shamela install
npm run benchmark           # Mode 1 + Mode 2 workflow simulations
npm run pack                # full chain: build:server + build:java + mcpb pack
npm run release             # cut a release: pre-flight + pack + tag + GitHub Release
npm run release:dry         # run all pre-flight checks, skip pack/tag/publish

build:java requires JDK 21+ (javac + jar). It searches PATH, then JAVA_HOME, then platform defaults: Eclipse Adoptium / Microsoft / Oracle / Corretto on Windows, /usr/libexec/java_home -v 21 on macOS, /usr/lib/jvm/* on Linux. Set JAVA_HOME explicitly if your JDK is in a non-standard location.

On macOS

Shamela installs to ~/Library/Application Support/Shamela — capital S, no 4, unlike the Windows shamela4. build:java finds it there without help.

It ships a JRE only (java, no javac), so the helper still needs a real JDK to compile:

brew install openjdk@21          # the temurin@21 cask needs sudo; this does not
cp ~/Library/Application\ Support/Shamela/app/lucene/2/AlKhalil-Analyzer-2.1.jar src/java/libs/
cp ~/Library/Application\ Support/Shamela/app/lucene/2/shamela-misc-1.0.0.jar   src/java/libs/
npm run build:java && npm run test

Read the full file on GitHub · 353 lines

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.

4d ago Changed · +23 lines · +266 tokens per session 654632051b8b
9d ago First seen · 330 lines · 4,978 tokens per session scan A e6f51502c815

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shamela-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository SMSMy/shamela-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,244 tokens to every session, about $0.0262 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to shamela-mcp CLAUDE.md, differing in 45 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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