bi-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

bi-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from whoamiTM/bi-mcp. It costs 8,958 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

An operating manual for an agent working with bi-mcp, a connector to Blue Iris security-camera recording software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an agent needs to inspect Blue Iris cameras, alerts, video clips, settings, or system status through bi-mcp.
Why use it?
It explains which tools to call for camera status, alerts, recordings, and other requests, including how changes are controlled.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: PostToolUse hook event, but also the file is AGENTS.md.

This is whoamiTM/bi-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on bi-mcp 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 bi-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to whoamiTM/bi-mcp. 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/whoamiTM/bi-mcp/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whoamiTM/bi-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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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 $0.08958 $0.08958
Opus 5 $0.04479 $0.04479
Sonnet 5 $0.01792 $0.01792
Haiku 4.5 $0.00896 $0.00896

Measured 6d ago against content hash f62c9bb496fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bi-mcp AGENTS.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 6d 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.

AGENTS.md · 622 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 622 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

bi-mcp — Agent Operating Manual

This document is the canonical operating manual for an LLM working through bi-mcp. Tool routing decisions, error handling, mutation safety, and the gap between what the BI JSON API exposes and what it doesn't all live here. Read this first when entering a fresh session.


Server identity

  • Wraps: Blue Iris NVR's HTTP/JSON API + the undocumented camconfig cmd, plus a .reg export parser for what the API can't reach.
  • Tested against: Blue Iris 5.9.9.71 (x64) on Windows 10.
  • Mode: stdio MCP server. Read-only by default; mutating tools register only when BI_MCP_ALLOW_MUTATIONS=1.
  • Surface: 19 read tools (always) + 6 mutating tools (when enabled).

Quick-start decision table

If the user asks… Call first…
"What's BI doing right now?" / current profile / disk / DIO bi_get_status
"What cameras are online?" / spotter overview bi_list_cameras
"What recent alerts on camera X?" bi_list_alerts(camera="...")
"What recorded between A and B?" bi_list_clips(camera="...", startdate=…, enddate=…)
"Why did this specific alert fire?" bi_list_alertsbi_get_alert_tracks + bi_get_clip_info
"Show me trigger zones / AI threshold for camera X" bi_get_reg(camera="...") — NOT bi_get_camera_config
"Show me current motion sensitivity / contrast / breaktime" bi_get_camera_motion_config(short="...") — live, no stale .reg
"What's MQTT/archive/global-schedule state?" bi_get_sysconfig (admin required)
"What's PTZ doing?" / available presets bi_get_ptz_status(camera="...")
"Recent errors in BI log" bi_list_log(levels=[2], since="-1h")
"Why did SecCam_3 trigger 10 min ago?" bi_list_log(camera="SecCam_3", since="-15m", levels=[3])
"Fire a test alert on camera X" (requires mutations) bi_trigger_camera(camera="...", memo="...")
"Move PTZ to preset N" (requires mutations) bi_get_ptz_status first → bi_set_ptz_preset(...)
"Change to night profile" (requires mutations) bi_get_status first → bi_set_profile(...) → revert
"Export an MP4 of this alert / clip" (requires mutations + clipcreate) bi_export_clip(mode="create", path=…, startms=…) → poll w/ mode="status"
"Rename / hide / enable / pause / reboot camera X" (requires mutations) bi_set_camera(camera="…", op="…") — read op list from tool docstring first

Read the full file on GitHub · 622 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. 6d ago First seen · 622 lines · 8,958 tokens per session scan A f62c9bb496fc

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bi-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository whoamiTM/bi-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8,958 tokens to every session, about $0.0448 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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