mcp-operator CLAUDE.md

mcp-operator CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from vitorbari/mcp-operator. It costs 2,573 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for an MCP operator, a Kubernetes controller that manages MCP servers and related cluster resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
They are for running controller and end-to-end tests, generating CRDs and permissions, building images, and installing or deploying the operator.
Why use it?
They document the commands needed to build, test, generate Kubernetes resource definitions, lint, and deploy the operator safely.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/vitorbari/mcp-operator/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vitorbari/mcp-operator

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Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.02573 $0.02573
Opus 5 $0.01287 $0.01287
Sonnet 5 $0.00515 $0.00515
Haiku 4.5 $0.00257 $0.00257

Measured 5d ago against content hash af3b64b90029, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-operator 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 5d 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.

VERSION=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/vitorbari/mcp-operator/releases | jq -r '.[0].tag_name')
CLAUDE.md · 336 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 336 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.

Development Commands

Building and Testing

# Run comprehensive test suite with envtest
make test

# Run specific controller tests
go test ./internal/controller -v -run "TestMCPServer"

# Run tests for a specific component (e.g., transport)
go test ./pkg/transport -v

# Run E2E tests with Kind cluster
make test-e2e

# Build the operator binary
make build

# Run locally for development (requires CRDs installed)
make run

Code Generation and Manifests

# Generate CRDs, RBAC, and webhooks after API changes
make manifests

# Generate deepcopy methods after API changes
make generate

# Install/uninstall CRDs in cluster
make install
make uninstall

# Deploy/undeploy operator to cluster
make deploy IMG=controller:latest
make undeploy

Linting and Quality

# Run golangci-lint
make lint

# Auto-fix linting issues
make lint-fix

# Format code
make fmt

# Vet code
make vet

Container and Distribution

# Build and push container image
make docker-build IMG=myregistry/mcp-operator:tag
make docker-push IMG=myregistry/mcp-operator:tag

# Build multi-platform images
make docker-buildx IMG=myregistry/mcp-operator:tag

# Generate consolidated install.yaml
make build-installer IMG=myregistry/mcp-operator:tag

Architecture Overview

This is a Kubernetes operator for managing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. The architecture follows standard controller-runtime patterns with sophisticated transport abstraction.

Core Components

API Layer (api/v1/mcpserver_types.go)

  • MCPServer CRD with comprehensive configuration options
  • Transport-specific configuration (HTTP/Custom)
  • Enterprise features: HPA, ingress, RBAC, security contexts
  • Rich status reporting with phase tracking and conditions

Controller (internal/controller/mcpserver_controller.go)

  • MCPServerReconciler implements reconciliation loop
  • Transport-aware resource management via Strategy pattern
  • Retry logic with client-go/util/retry.RetryOnConflict for optimistic concurrency
  • Comprehensive status updates with condition management
  • Resource ownership and finalizer-based cleanup

Read the full file on GitHub · 336 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. 5d ago First seen · 336 lines · 2,573 tokens per session scan A af3b64b90029

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mcp-operator CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vitorbari/mcp-operator (29 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,573 tokens to every session, about $0.0129 per session on Opus 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.