lara-mcp CLAUDE.md

lara-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from translated/lara-mcp. It costs 1,692 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for a Lara Translate MCP server, a program that lets other tools use Lara's translation service through a standard connection format. They document setup, development, testing, Docker, and the server's two connection modes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when installing dependencies, building, running, testing, or changing the translation server.
Why use it?
They give coding agents the repository-specific commands and architecture details needed to work on the project correctly.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/translated/lara-mcp/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/translated/lara-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security

Grade A, and why

lara-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.

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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 · 174 lines

How it starts

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CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Overview

Lara Translate MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides translation capabilities through the Lara Translate API. The server supports both STDIO and HTTP transport modes.

Development Commands

Setup

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Build the project
pnpm run build

Development

# Run in development mode with hot reload
pnpm run dev

# Start the built server
pnpm run start

Testing

# Run all tests once
pnpm test

# Run tests in watch mode
pnpm test:watch

# Run tests with coverage report
pnpm test:coverage

Docker Development

# Build Docker image
docker build -t lara-mcp .

Architecture

Server Modes

The server operates in two transport modes determined by the TRANSPORT environment variable:

  1. STDIO Mode (src/index.ts:56-75): Direct MCP server using stdio transport, requires LARA_ACCESS_KEY_ID and LARA_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET environment variables.

  2. HTTP Mode (src/index.ts:42-54): REST API server with MCP protocol endpoint at /v1

Core Components

MCP Server (src/mcp/server.ts)

The server factory function getMcpServer(accessKeyId, accessKeySecret) creates an MCP server instance with:

  • accessKeyId: The Lara Translate API access key ID
  • accessKeySecret: The Lara Translate API access key secret

The server initializes a Translator instance from the @translated/lara SDK and configures MCP request handlers for tools and resources.

Tools (src/mcp/tools/)

All MCP tools are organized in individual files under src/mcp/tools/:

Translation Tools:

  • translate.ts - Main translation with context, instructions, memory support, and glossaries
    • Advanced options: glossaries (array of glossary IDs, max 10), no_trace (privacy flag), priority (normal/background), timeout_in_millis (max 300000ms)
    • Validation includes format checks for glossary IDs (gls_* pattern) and timeout limits

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 lines

Changes

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lara-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository translated/lara-mcp (97 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,692 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.

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