hostaway-mcp: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

hostaway-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from uncfreak1255-code/hostaway-mcp. It costs 1,376 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

An AGENTS.md instruction file for the Hostaway MCP project. It explains the project’s scope, commands, file layout, and safety rules for an open-source server that reads hospitality data from Hostaway.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as the operating guide when inspecting or changing the Hostaway MCP repository, including its six registered read-only tools and required API-token setup.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents the repository rules they need before making changes. In particular, it states that the main server is read-only and must not modify guests, reservations, or listings.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Codex.

This is uncfreak1255-code/hostaway-mcp's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on hostaway-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything hostaway-mcp configures →

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/sawbeck/Projects/seascape-ops/scripts/hostaway-poller.js.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to uncfreak1255-code/hostaway-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/uncfreak1255-code/hostaway-mcp/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uncfreak1255-code/hostaway-mcp

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 1,376 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01376 $0.01376
Opus 5.5 $0.00550 $0.00550
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00275 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00138 $0.00138

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2182cec744b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

hostaway-mcp AGENTS.md scanned grade C 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

npm run build # rm -rf dist && tsc -p tsconfig.build.json
AGENTS.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hostaway MCP — Agent Instructions (Canonical)

This is the canonical agent kernel for the hostaway-mcp repo. CLAUDE.md is a thin Claude-specific delta that points back here. Any unique operating signal lives in this file.

This repo owns the open-source Hostaway MCP server: the operator product only — local/npm stdio, a small set of read-only, hospitality-shaped tools.

Scope & Write-Safety Contract (READ FIRST)

This is the safety-critical part of this repo. Get it exactly right.

  • main is read-only. There are no write paths and no "safe" exceptions. src/server.ts registers six read tools and nothing else: list_unread_guest_threads, get_conversation_context, get_reservation_brief, get_listing_brief, search_reservations, search_conversations. There is no write-tool registration, no HOSTAWAY_MCP_READONLY flag, and no src/write-infra/ on main.
  • No PMS mutation. Sending guest messages and mutating reservations or listings are explicit V1 Non-Goals (see README.md). The server only reads from Hostaway; it never writes to a guest, a reservation, or a listing.
  • The only credential is HOSTAWAY_API_TOKEN (required, secret) with an optional HOSTAWAY_BASE_URL override for testing. The token authenticates read requests. Never print, echo, or commit token values, and never read or echo the contents of .mcp.local.json or .mcpregistry_* files.
  • Introducing any write path is a [SENSITIVE CHANGE]. If a future plan adds guest messaging, reservation/listing mutation, or any other write surface, it must be an explicit, approved scope change with: a confirmation/dry-run guard so writes never execute by default, an audit trail for every write, rate limiting, and regression tests covering the guard. Do not add write tools as an incidental part of unrelated work, and do not weaken the read-only default. Default to read-only.
  • No booking/distribution Worker in this repo. Cloudflare Worker transport and Seascape booking/distribution flows are Non-Goals. Do not add a Worker, wrangler.toml, webhook ingestion, or background sync pipelines here.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 1mo ago Changed · -2 lines · -28 tokens per session 2182cec744b1
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines · +107 tokens per session 9a504da9b3cf
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 115 lines · 1,297 tokens per session scan C 964a274d8933

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hostaway-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository uncfreak1255-code/hostaway-mcp (0 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,376 tokens to every session, about $0.0055 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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