hound-mcp CLAUDE.md

hound-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from tiluckdave/hound-mcp. It costs 1,703 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A contributor guide for hound-mcp, a TypeScript server that provides tools and prompts for inspecting software packages and their security information. It describes the project structure, data sources, build commands, tests, and code-quality tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing, building, testing, linting, or formatting hound-mcp and when working on its vulnerability, package-inspection, dependency-advisory, or related tools.
Why use it?
It gives contributors the project-specific setup and conventions needed to make changes consistently. This reduces time spent locating tools, APIs, and the correct validation commands.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

Not installable on its own: it reads a path above its own folder, which only exists inside its repository. The line is vi.mock("../../src/api/osv.js");.

Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 1,703 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.01703 $0.01703
Opus 5 $0.00851 $0.00851
Sonnet 5 $0.00341 $0.00341
Haiku 4.5 $0.00170 $0.00170

Measured 6d ago against content hash c93c47b306c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hound-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 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.

CLAUDE.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hound MCP — Contributor Guide

This file is for contributors making bug fixes and enhancements. It describes how the code is structured, how to work with it, and the conventions to follow.


Tech Stack

Concern Tool
Language TypeScript (strict mode)
Runtime Node.js 18+
MCP SDK @modelcontextprotocol/sdk
Validation Zod (import from zod/v4)
Build tsup
Testing Vitest
Linting ESLint + typescript-eslint
Formatting Prettier
Package manager pnpm

Project Structure

hound-mcp/
├── src/
│   ├── index.ts              # Entry point — starts stdio transport
│   ├── server.ts             # Creates McpServer, registers all tools & prompts
│   ├── tools/
│   │   ├── vulns.ts          # hound_vulns
│   │   ├── inspect.ts        # hound_inspect
│   │   ├── tree.ts           # hound_tree
│   │   ├── typosquat.ts      # hound_typosquat
│   │   ├── advisories.ts     # hound_advisories
│   │   └── popular.ts        # hound_popular
│   ├── prompts/
│   │   └── index.ts          # Registers the 3 built-in MCP prompts
│   ├── api/
│   │   ├── depsdev.ts        # deps.dev API client (package metadata, dep trees, scorecard)
│   │   └── osv.ts            # OSV API client (vulnerabilities, batch queries)
│   ├── utils/
│   │   └── getDefaultVersion.ts  # Shared helper for picking default package version
│   └── types/
│       └── index.ts          # Shared types (Ecosystem, etc.)
├── tests/
│   ├── api/                  # Unit tests for API clients
│   ├── utils/                # Unit tests for shared utilities
│   ├── parsers/              # Unit tests for lockfile parsers
│   └── tools/                # Unit tests for tools
├── eslint.config.js
├── tsconfig.json
├── tsup.config.ts
└── vitest.config.ts

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 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.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 209 lines · 1,703 tokens per session scan A c93c47b306c5

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hound-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tiluckdave/hound-mcp (17 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,703 tokens to every session, about $0.0085 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.