What is ShareLatexMCP CLAUDE.md?

Instructions for a local ShareLaTeX connector that works with ShareLaTeX at TUM, a self-hosted version of the collaborative LaTeX editor Overleaf. MCP is a standard way for an agent to call external tools.

Helping an agent inspect ShareLaTeX projects, parse their document structure, and apply section-level or whole-file changes.

It explains how the connector reads project files, understands LaTeX structure, and sends edits through the project’s Git connection.

How vinconig/ShareLatexMCP configures Claude Code

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Borrowing it

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

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinconig/ShareLatexMCP

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 2,225 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.02225	$0.02225
Opus 5.5	$0.00890	$0.00890
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00445	$0.00445
Haiku 4.5	$0.00222	$0.00222

Measured 2mo ago against content hash c82c14abbd1e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ShareLatexMCP 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 · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 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.

What this is

sharelatex-mcp-server.js is a single-file MCP (Model Context Protocol) stdio server. It gives MCP clients (Claude Desktop, etc.) tools to read ShareLaTeX project files, parse LaTeX document structure, and push section-level or whole-file edits back via the instance's Git integration.

It targets ShareLaTeX @ TUM (sharelatex.tum.de) by default — a self-hosted Overleaf Server Pro deployment. This repo is a fork of mjyoo2/OverleafMCP, which targets overleaf.com; the load-bearing difference is the Git URL shape, https://<host>/git/<projectId> instead of https://git.overleaf.com/<projectId>.

It is not published to npm. Installs go through npx -y github:vinconig/ShareLatexMCP, which is why package.json must keep exactly one bin entry (sharelatex-mcp) and the script must keep its #!/usr/bin/env node shebang and executable bit.

There is no build step and no test suite — the entire runtime is the one script.

Commands

npm install                    # install deps (only @modelcontextprotocol/sdk)
npm start                      # node sharelatex-mcp-server.js

# Smoke-test the MCP protocol directly over stdio (no Claude Desktop needed)
SHARELATEX_PROJECT_ID=... SHARELATEX_GIT_TOKEN=... node sharelatex-mcp-server.js
# → should print "ShareLaTeX MCP server running on stdio" to stderr, then block on stdin

# Local iteration against Claude Desktop: point its config at the cloned script
# (see README "Local Development" for the full JSON snippets)

There are no lint/test scripts defined in package.json. See the README's "Smoke-test the MCP protocol from the shell" section for a one-liner that drives a real tools/call end to end.

Architecture

Everything lives in sharelatex-mcp-server.js, organized top to bottom as:

Config loading (loadProjectsConfig and helpers) — resolves which project(s) to talk to. Priority order, first match wins:
1. SHARELATEX_PROJECT_ID + (SHARELATEX_GIT_TOKEN or SHARELATEX_GIT_TOKEN_FILE) → synthesized as a single project keyed default.
2. SHARELATEX_PROJECTS_CONFIG=/path/to/projects.json (explicit path; missing/invalid file is fatal, no silent fallthrough).
3. projects.json in the OS user config dir (%APPDATA%\sharelatex-mcp on Windows, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/sharelatex-mcp or ~/.config/sharelatex-mcp elsewhere).
4. ./projects.json (cwd).
5. projects.json next to the script (legacy, for clone-based installs).

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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.

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ShareLatexMCP CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vinconig/ShareLatexMCP (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,225 tokens to every session, about $0.0089 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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