What is bookstack-mcp CLAUDE.md?

A set of project instructions for developing BookStack MCP Server, a TypeScript service that lets AI assistants use a BookStack wiki. MCP is a standard connection between assistants and external tools.

Use it when building, type-checking, running, or changing the server and its BookStack search and page-management tools.

It records the project's build commands, architecture, validation rules, and compatibility details in one place.

How ttpears/bookstack-mcp configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ttpears/bookstack-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ttpears/bookstack-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 1,443 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,443 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01443	$0.01443
Opus 5.5	$0.00577	$0.00577
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00289	$0.00289
Haiku 4.5	$0.00144	$0.00144

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 632a69bbe6d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bookstack-mcp CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -H "Authorization: Token $BOOKSTACK_TOKEN_ID:$BOOKSTACK_TOKEN_SECRET" \

CLAUDE.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 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 (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

BookStack MCP Server — A TypeScript MCP server providing BookStack wiki integration for AI assistants. Published to npm as bookstack-mcp. Uses McpServer API with registerTool() and Zod schemas with z.coerce.number() for broad MCP client compatibility. Current version is tracked in package.json.

Build & Development Commands

npm install              # Install dependencies
npm run build           # Compile TypeScript + chmod +x dist/*.js
npm run type-check      # Type-check without emitting files
npm run dev             # Start server with hot reload (tsx)
npm start               # Run compiled server (node dist/index.js)

Architecture

Two source files in src/:

src/index.ts — MCP server entry point

McpServer from @modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/mcp.js
Tool registration with server.registerTool()
Zod schemas using z.coerce.number() (accepts both 8 and "8" from clients)
Required ID params use .min(1) to guard against empty string coercion
Stdio transport
Write tools conditionally registered based on BOOKSTACK_ENABLE_WRITE

src/bookstack-client.ts — BookStack API wrapper

Axios-based HTTP client with token auth
Response enhancement: URLs via slugs, human-friendly dates, content previews, word counts
Export handling: binary formats return download URLs, text formats return content
Write operations gated by enableWrite flag

Configuration

Environment Variables

BOOKSTACK_BASE_URL=https://your-bookstack.com   # Required
BOOKSTACK_TOKEN_ID=your-token-id                # Required
BOOKSTACK_TOKEN_SECRET=your-token-secret        # Required
BOOKSTACK_ENABLE_WRITE=false                    # Optional
BOOKSTACK_INSECURE_SKIP_TLS_VERIFY=false        # Optional, for self-signed BookStack

TypeScript Configuration

Target: ES2022 with NodeNext modules/resolution
Output: dist/ directory
No source maps or declarations (CLI package, not a library)

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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.

1mo ago First seen · 142 lines · 1,443 tokens per session scan A 632a69bbe6d8

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bookstack-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ttpears/bookstack-mcp (47 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,443 tokens to every session, about $0.0058 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

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bookstack-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code