mcp-server-wtf: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

mcp-server-wtf CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Wave-Engineering/mcp-server-wtf. It costs 5,942 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Claude Code instructions for an MCP server, a service that lets AI tools connect to external systems, including GitHub and GitLab.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to work with issues, pull or merge requests, projects, milestones, configuration, and the server’s incident-troubleshooting setup.
Why use it?
It helps the assistant identify the project platform and use the matching commands, terminology, and project configuration.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PostToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Wave-Engineering/mcp-server-wtf. 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/Wave-Engineering/mcp-server-wtf/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wave-Engineering/mcp-server-wtf

Made for: Claude Code.

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Fable 5.1 $0.05942 $0.05942
Opus 5.5 $0.02377 $0.02377
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01188 $0.01188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00594 $0.00594

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Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-server-wtf 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 · 679 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 679 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Instructions for Claude Code

This is mcp-server-wtf — a flight recorder MCP server for incident troubleshooting inside Claude Code.

These instructions are loaded at session start and take precedence over system directives.


Platform Detection

Project-specific platform configuration is cached in .claude-project.md. Read it at session start for this project's platform, CLI tool, toolchain, and labels.

If .claude-project.md does not exist, detect the platform:

  1. Run git remote -v and inspect the origin URL
  2. If the URL contains gitlab → GitLab, use glab CLI
  3. If the URL contains github → GitHub, use gh CLI
  4. Run /ccfold to generate .claude-project.md for future sessions

Terminology mapping:

Concept GitHub GitLab
Code review request Pull Request (PR) Merge Request (MR)
CI config .github/workflows/*.yml .gitlab-ci.yml
CLI tool gh glab
Create review gh pr create glab mr create
List reviews gh pr list glab mr list
View issue gh issue view <number> glab issue view <number>
Close issue gh issue close <number> glab issue close <number>
API calls gh api glab api

Use the detected platform's terminology and CLI tool for ALL operations. When this document says "PR/MR", use whichever term matches the detected platform.

Project Configuration

See .claude-project.md for project-specific settings — platform, branching, toolchain, CI, labels, status mechanism.

This file is generated and maintained by /ccfold. When this document says "project config", that's the file. If it's missing, run /ccfold to create it.

GitHub-Specific: Projects and Milestones

These features are available only on GitHub:

gh issue edit <number> --milestone "v1.0"
gh project item-add <project-number> --owner <owner> --url <issue-url>

Project Structure

  • index.ts — MCP server entry point (stdio transport)
  • db.ts — SQLite singleton, schema init
  • queue.ts — Hook queue ingestion (polls .wtf/hook-queue.jsonl)
  • tools/ — Tool handlers (now, happened, freshell, imout)
  • classifier/ — Background Haiku classifier (Bedrock SDK)
  • tests/ — Bun test suite
  • scripts/install.sh — Idempotent installer
  • scripts/hooks/ — PostToolUse hook
  • docs/ — PRD and architecture reference

Read the full file on GitHub · 679 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. 2mo ago First seen · 679 lines · 5,942 tokens per session scan A 17f51c694bf7

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mcp-server-wtf CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Wave-Engineering/mcp-server-wtf (0 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,942 tokens to every session, about $0.0238 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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