dawmcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

dawmcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from vecnode/dawmcp. It costs 321 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for dawmcp, a Rust server that connects coding agents to REAPER, a music-production application. They describe the build and test process and note that some checks require a running REAPER instance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when building or testing dawmcp, checking its status, reviewing CI, or working with the REAPER bridge.
Why use it?
They explain the expected server behavior and the limits of automated testing, reducing misleading diagnoses.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is vecnode/dawmcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on dawmcp 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 dawmcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to vecnode/dawmcp. 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/vecnode/dawmcp/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vecnode/dawmcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 321 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 321 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00321 $0.00321
Opus 5.5 $0.00128 $0.00128
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00064 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00032 $0.00032

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 69f1892c31b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dawmcp 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 2mo 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 · 25 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md

See AGENTS.md for the full project brief (architecture, key files, setup/test loop, past decisions, conventions, and open next steps). Read that file first when picking up work here in a new conversation.

Claude Code specific notes

  • CI runs cargo build --workspace and cargo test --workspace on push/PR to main via .github/workflows/ci.yml (windows-latest, matching the project's primary target). Check gh pr checks before merging if CI has had time to run; cargo test --workspace locally is still the faster loop while iterating.
  • The MCP server itself (dawmcp, cargo run -p dawmcp-server) is stdio-based and blocks waiting for a client - that's expected behavior, not a hang, when run directly rather than through a client like Claude Code/Desktop.
  • Live end-to-end testing requires a real running REAPER instance with lua/reaper_bridge.lua loaded via REAPER's Actions list; this can't be verified from an automated test run alone. dawmcp --status is the fastest way to check reachability without needing an MCP client.
  • The project was originally a Python implementation (reaper-mcp, REAPER-only); it was rewritten in Rust and generalized to multiple DAWs (dawmcp) - see AGENTS.md's "Decisions worth knowing" for why.
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. 2mo ago First seen · 25 lines · 321 tokens per session scan A 69f1892c31b0

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dawmcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vecnode/dawmcp (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 321 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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 2026-08-31.

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