Coding Tools MCP is a model-neutral coding runtime that lets AI agents work with a codebase through the Model Context Protocol, an interface for connecting agents to external tools. It provides file search and reading, multi-file edits, command execution, interactive sessions, and Git operations within a workspace, with permission controls for potentially risky actions. Its catalogue entry is an instruction for using this MCP server with compatible coding agents and clients.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to xyTom/coding-tools-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.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xyTom/coding-tools-mcp/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xyTom/coding-tools-mcpWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/xytom/coding-tools-mcp/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/xytom/coding-tools-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/xytom/coding-tools-mcp/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/xytom/coding-tools-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/xytom/coding-tools-mcp/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00329 | $0.00329 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00132 | $0.00132 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00066 | $0.00066 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00033 | $0.00033 |
Grade A, and why
coding-tools-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 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.
What it actually says
Coding Tools MCP repository guide
This repository is a monorepo. Keep changes inside the narrowest owning subtree and avoid creating cross-component coupling unless the feature requires it.
Repository map
coding_tools_mcp/: core Python MCP runtime and public server behavior.apps/desktop-client/: desktop client UI and desktop runtime integration.integrations/tunnels/: user-facing tunnel launchers for remote MCP access.infra/cloudflare/sandbox-control/: Cloudflare Worker control plane paired with.github/workflows/start-sandbox.yml.packages/npm-launcher/: thin npm launcher for the Python package.media/promo-video/: Remotion source for the project promo video.benchmarks/: benchmark runners and fixtures.reports/: generated/published benchmark and compliance results.docs/: user, contributor, architecture, and reference documentation.scripts/: repository maintenance, validation, installation, release, and report-generation scripts. Do not put user-facing runtime integrations here.
Standing rules
- Preserve public CLI names, Python import paths, protocol schemas, and release behavior unless a task explicitly requires a breaking change.
- Keep one authoritative home for each fact; link to it instead of copying long explanations between documents.
- Changes to
infra/cloudflare/sandbox-control/and.github/workflows/start-sandbox.ymlmay form one interface contract. Update and validate them together. - Prefer subtree-specific instructions when present.
- Run the narrowest relevant checks first, then broader checks when tooling is available.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 25 lines · 329 tokens per session scan A 6cdb491c8d9e
coding-tools-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository xyTom/coding-tools-mcp (1,222 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 329 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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 2026-08-30.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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