ToolHive is a platform for running and managing Model Context Protocol servers, which give AI clients access to tools and data. Developers, platform teams, and enterprises use it to isolate MCP servers, control access, and monitor their operation. The catalogue entries provide agent workflows and configuration for operating ToolHive and its MCP servers.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to stacklok/toolhive. 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/stacklok/toolhive/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stacklok/toolhiveWrote 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/stacklok/toolhive/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/stacklok/toolhive/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/stacklok/toolhive/claude-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/stacklok/toolhive/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/stacklok/toolhive/claude-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 | $0.01562 | $0.01562 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00625 | $0.00625 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00312 | $0.00312 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00156 | $0.00156 |
Grade A, and why
toolhive 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 9d 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 — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md
This file provides guidance to Claude Code when working with this repository.
Project Overview
ToolHive is a lightweight, secure manager for MCP (Model Context Protocol: https://modelcontextprotocol.io) servers written in Go. It provides a CLI (thv), a Kubernetes operator (thv-operator), and a proxy runner (thv-proxyrunner) for container-based MCP server isolation.
To understand the system, start with the Architecture Documentation. Begin at the Architecture Overview and Core Concepts, then read the component deep-dives relevant to your task — Deployment Modes, Transport Architecture, Kubernetes Operator, Virtual MCP, and more. The architecture index has a full map and by-topic navigation.
Build and Development Commands
task build # Build the main binary
task install # Install binary to GOPATH/bin
task lint # Run linting
task lint-fix # Fix linting issues (preferred over lint)
task test # Unit tests (excluding e2e)
task test-e2e # E2E tests (requires build first)
task test-all # All tests (unit + e2e)
task test-coverage # Tests with coverage analysis
task gen # Generate mocks
task docs # Generate CLI documentation
task build-image # Build container image
task build-all-images # Build all container images
IMPORTANT: Always use task commands. Never run go test, go build, or golangci-lint directly -- the Taskfile has correct flags, exclusions, and environment setup that direct commands miss.
Testing: Ginkgo/Gomega for BDD-style tests. Unit tests for pkg/ business logic; E2E tests for CLI commands.
Available Subagents
Agents are in .claude/agents/ and MUST be invoked for tasks matching their expertise:
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.
- 9d ago Changed · +2 lines · +132 tokens per session 057f4ba10040
- 1mo ago First seen · 107 lines · 1,430 tokens per session scan A da194a7d4327
toolhive CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository stacklok/toolhive (2,307 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,562 tokens to every session, about $0.0062 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 2026-08-30.
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