pexels-mcp-server: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

pexels-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from VictorNain26/pexels-mcp-server. It costs 3,072 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Claude Code instructions for working in the pexels-mcp-server repository, including where to find project context, coding conventions, and everyday commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding Claude Code when reading, changing, testing, or reviewing the pexels-mcp-server project.
Why use it?
It tells the assistant which documents are authoritative and helps keep changes focused while allowing justified exceptions to repository guidelines.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is VictorNain26/pexels-mcp-server's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on pexels-mcp-server 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 pexels-mcp-server configures →

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pexels-mcp-server 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 9d ago.

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CLAUDE.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Operational guide for AI coding sessions in this repo. Read this first, then load the functional context from the docs listed below.

Read the functional context, do not duplicate it here

For what this server does and how it is wired, consult these — they are the single source of truth:

Doc Purpose
README.md User-facing overview, tool table, OAuth flow, deployment guide.
PRIVACY.md What the server processes, stores, logs, and forwards.
CHANGELOG.md History of breaking and behaviour-affecting changes.

If something is documented there, link from your work — do not paste a re-explanation into this file or into a code comment.

Code conventions in this repo

These are guidelines, not laws. If a rule below blocks a clearly better approach, override it and document the reason in the PR description. Don't keep a bad practice just to honour the letter of this file.

  • Match scope. A bug fix touches the bug. A refactor goes in a separate PR.
  • YAGNI. Three similar lines beat a premature abstraction. No feature flags or backwards-compat shims when the code can simply change.
  • Trust internal, validate at boundaries. Pydantic models gate every tool argument (ConfigDict(extra="forbid")); internal helpers do not re-check.
  • Comments answer the why, never the what. No "added for ticket X", no "used by Y" — those rot. Source of truth for why is the commit message and the linked spec/RFC.
  • Errors are agent-actionable, raised from the tool body. Validation errors flatten via server.py::_raise_invalid_params; Pexels errors (PexelsAuthError, PexelsRateLimitError, PexelsAPIError) propagate as-is. FastMCP catches each and marks the CallToolResult with isError=true per MCP spec 2025-11-25 SEP-1303 — never catch and return a string, that would silently mark the result as success.
  • Tool docstrings are written for the LLM caller, not the human dev. Every tool MUST have: a one-line purpose, USE WHEN, DO NOT USE WHEN, filter recap, return-shape teaser. Follow Anthropic's "Writing tools for agents". Keep them tight — every char ships in tools/list on every conversation init.
  • Tool annotations are not optional. Every @mcp.tool carries ToolAnnotations with title + readOnlyHint. The Anthropic Connector Directory rejects ~30 % of submissions for missing these.
  • Three MCP primitives, all read-only. This server ships the full set: 8 tools (model-controlled), 3 resources (URI templates per RFC 6570), 2 prompts (claude.ai connector menu). See README.md for the surface. Future primitives go through the same trim discipline — any type-level docstring leaks into $defs of every referencing schema.
  • No hand-rolled OAuth, no hand-rolled bearer. The MCP SDK owns the auth surface. The only custom piece is auth.py's OAuthAuthorizationServerProvider implementation and the public landing page at GET / registered via @mcp.custom_route.
  • No outbound URL fetching from tools. Removing the pexels_preview_media tool also removed the SSRF surface. Future tools that take URLs MUST allowlist hosts at the Pydantic layer; document the threat model.
  • Imports stay narrow. mcp, httpx, pydantic, uvicorn, redis, cryptography are the only runtime deps. The last two are gated behind REDIS_URL — the import path in storage.py is lazy so a stdio install never pays the import cost. Anything new needs a justification in the PR.

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 lines

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pexels-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository VictorNain26/pexels-mcp-server (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,072 tokens to every session, about $0.0154 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 2026-08-31.

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