NetContextServer CLAUDE.md

Repository instructions for NetContextServer, a .NET server that helps AI coding assistants understand .NET codebases. The project also includes a command-line client and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Developing the MCP server, using its command-line client, running selected tests, collecting test coverage, and publishing builds for Windows, Linux, or macOS.
Why use it?
They explain how to build, run, test, publish, and measure coverage for the server and its related projects.

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/willibrandon/netcontextserver/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/willibrandon/NetContextServer
Per session 776 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 776 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00776 $0.00776
Opus 5 $0.00388 $0.00388
Sonnet 5 $0.00155 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00078 $0.00078

Measured yesterday against content hash a0b0b2ae7e35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

NetContextServer 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 yesterday.

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 · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 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.

Project Overview

NetContextServer is a .NET 9.0 Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides AI coding assistants with deep understanding of .NET codebases. It consists of three main projects:

  • NetContextServer: MCP server implementation
  • NetContextClient: CLI interface for server interaction
  • NetContextServer.Tests: Comprehensive test suite

Essential Commands

Development

# Build the solution
dotnet build

# Run tests
dotnet test

# Run the server
dotnet run --project src/NetContextServer/NetContextServer.csproj

# Run the client with a command
dotnet run --project src/NetContextClient/NetContextClient.csproj -- [command]

# Run a specific test
dotnet test --filter "FullyQualifiedName~TestName"

# Run tests with coverage
dotnet test --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage"

Publishing

# Publish for Windows
dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained

# Publish for Linux
dotnet publish -c Release -r linux-x64 --self-contained

# Publish for macOS
dotnet publish -c Release -r osx-x64 --self-contained

Architecture Overview

Service Layer Pattern

The codebase follows a clean service-based architecture where business logic is encapsulated in services under src/NetContextServer/Services/. Each service has a corresponding interface and handles a specific domain concern.

MCP Tool Implementation

Tools are organized under src/NetContextServer/Tools/ and grouped by functionality:

  • FileTools: Project/file operations (ListProjects, ListSourceFiles, ReadFile)
  • SearchTools: Text and semantic search (SearchCode, SemanticSearch)
  • PackageTools: NuGet package analysis (AnalyzePackages)
  • CoverageTools: Test coverage analysis (GetCoverage)
  • ThinkTools: Structured reasoning (Think)

Each tool class inherits from ModelContextTool<TArgs, TResult> and implements the MCP protocol.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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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Subscribe to this mod's changes

NetContextServer CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository willibrandon/NetContextServer (32 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 776 tokens to every session, about $0.0039 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 2026-08-30.

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