illustrator-figure-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

illustrator-figure-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ymo6/illustrator-figure-mcp. It costs 1,304 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for a tool that rebuilds scientific figures as editable Adobe Illustrator artwork. They define how to work in the repository and how to verify a figure’s structure and appearance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing or maintaining the illustrator-figure-mcp repository, especially when editing figure layouts, exporting previews, and reviewing reconstruction results.
Why use it?
They prevent unsafe release actions and require separate structural and visual checks, so a traced or flattened figure is not mistaken for a correct one.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is ymo6/illustrator-figure-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on illustrator-figure-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 illustrator-figure-mcp configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ymo6/illustrator-figure-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/ymo6/illustrator-figure-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ymo6/illustrator-figure-mcp

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When invoked 1,304 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.01304 $0.01304
Opus 5 $0.00652 $0.00652
Sonnet 5 $0.00261 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00130 $0.00130

Measured 8d ago against content hash 529b8e0e872b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

illustrator-figure-mcp 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 8d 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 · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Working in this repository

This is a fork of ie3jp/illustrator-mcp-server (MIT), retargeted from general Illustrator automation to one job: rebuilding scientific figures as editable artwork, with proof that the result is structurally correct.

Upstream gave us hands — 66 Illustrator tools, UUID identity, note metadata, PNG export. It had no way to prove a rebuilt figure is right. That proof is what this fork adds.

Do not publish

Upstream's release process (npm publish via CI, MCP Registry, mcpb attachment) does not apply here and its CLAUDE.md describing it has been replaced by this file. The npm publish job has been removed from CI. Do not publish this package, do not tag releases expecting a publish, and do not push to upstream.

The upstream remote points at ie3jp's repository. Fetch from it to merge improvements; never push to it.

The two channels

The whole design rests on separating two kinds of evidence:

Channel Mechanism Proves
Geometry audit_figure — deterministic, read-only internal correctness: containment, alignment, text fit, connector routing, raster declarations, trace signatures
Appearance export to PNG, compared by the model against the reference crop resemblance

Neither is sufficient. A traced figure passes every geometric check and is worthless; a good-looking render says nothing about structure. Never let audit_figure returning passed: true be reported as "the figure is correct" — it means "no hard geometric failure".

Layout

src/jsx/helpers/common.jsx   upstream helpers — keep merges clean, edit sparingly
src/jsx/helpers/sifm.jsx     this fork's helpers (prepended to every tool call)
src/jsx/audit.jsx            the auditor        — loaded on demand
src/jsx/connector.jsx        connector emulation — loaded on demand
src/jsx/sequence.jsx         batched construction — loaded on demand
src/tools/utility/audit-figure.ts
src/tools/modify/{add-connector,reflow-connectors,draw-sequence,raster-gate}.ts
skills/                      the four Claude Code role skills

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 8d ago First seen · 69 lines · 1,304 tokens per session scan A 529b8e0e872b

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illustrator-figure-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ymo6/illustrator-figure-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,304 tokens to every session, about $0.0065 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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