mcp-crawl4ai: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

mcp-crawl4ai AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from wyattowalsh/mcp-crawl4ai. It costs 1,254 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project guide for coding agents working on the mcp-crawl4ai Python server. It records the technology stack, important files, commands, tests, and release setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing or testing mcp-crawl4ai. It helps agents use uv, run pytest, lint with ruff, check types with ty, and understand the server and CI files.
Why use it?
It gives an agent the project context needed to work in the right way, reducing guesswork about commands, files, and checks.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is wyattowalsh/mcp-crawl4ai's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on mcp-crawl4ai 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-crawl4ai configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to wyattowalsh/mcp-crawl4ai. 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/wyattowalsh/mcp-crawl4ai/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wyattowalsh/mcp-crawl4ai

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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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01254 $0.01254
Opus 5 $0.00627 $0.00627
Sonnet 5 $0.00251 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00125 $0.00125

Measured 9d ago against content hash 714c49e37639, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-crawl4ai 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 9d 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 · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md -- mcp-crawl4ai

AI agent instructions for this project.

Stack

  • Runtime: Python 3.13+
  • Server framework: FastMCP v3 (fastmcp>=3.0.0)
  • Crawler: crawl4ai (crawl4ai>=0.8.0) -- AsyncWebCrawler with Playwright/Chromium
  • Package manager: uv (always use uv run / uv add / uv sync)
  • Test runner: pytest with pytest-asyncio (asyncio_mode = "auto")
  • Linter: ruff
  • Type checker: ty

Key Files

File Purpose
mcp_crawl4ai/server.py All server logic -- 11 tools, 2 resources, 3 prompts, lifespan, auto-setup
mcp_crawl4ai/__init__.py Package version via importlib.metadata
pyproject.toml Project config, dependencies, tool config
tests/conftest.py Test fixtures (mock crawler, client)
tests/test_server.py 100+ tests -- all in-memory, no browser
tests/manual/ Manual live test scripts (require browser)
mcp_crawl4ai/py.typed PEP 561 typed package marker
.github/workflows/ci.yml GitHub Actions CI (test + lint + typecheck + Codecov)
.github/workflows/release.yml Release workflow (build + PyPI publish + GitHub Release)
.github/dependabot.yml Dependabot for pip + GitHub Actions
.github/assets/img/ Logo, icon, favicon images
Dockerfile Container build for HTTP transport deployment
.pre-commit-config.yaml Pre-commit hooks (ruff + pre-commit-hooks)

Commands

# Install
uv sync

# Install browser (first time -- or use mcp-crawl4ai --setup)
mcp-crawl4ai --setup

# Run (stdio -- default for Claude Desktop / MCP clients)
mcp-crawl4ai

# Run (HTTP -- defaults to 127.0.0.1; set --host explicitly for external exposure)
mcp-crawl4ai --transport http --port 8000

# Tests
uv run pytest

# Tests with coverage
uv run pytest --cov=mcp_crawl4ai

# Lint
uv run ruff check mcp_crawl4ai/

# Type check
uv run ty check mcp_crawl4ai/

CI / Pre-commit

# Install pre-commit hooks
uv run pre-commit install

# Run pre-commit manually
uv run pre-commit run --all-files

# Build Docker image
docker build -t mcp-crawl4ai .

# Run via Docker (HTTP transport)
docker run -p 8000:8000 mcp-crawl4ai

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 9d ago First seen · 129 lines · 1,254 tokens per session scan A 714c49e37639

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mcp-crawl4ai AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/mcp-crawl4ai (0 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,254 tokens to every session, about $0.0063 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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