itasca-mcp: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

itasca-mcp GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from yusong652/itasca-mcp. It costs 1,197 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of itasca-mcp AGENTS.md, MIT.

Repository guidance for working on itasca-mcp, including its Python server and the bridge that runs inside the PFC graphical interface. MCP is a standard way for software to provide tools to an AI agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Understanding or modifying the server, its PFC bridge, documentation tools, execution tools, and HTTP communication.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents the project structure, runtime differences, and communication design they need to change the repository safely.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

Written for Gemini CLI: the file is GEMINI.md. Also seen: mentions Gemini CLI.

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GEMINI.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GEMINI.md

Guidance for coding agents working in the itasca-mcp repository.

Project Overview

itasca-mcp provides an MCP server for ITASCA PFC workflows. The bridge runtime that runs inside PFC GUI lives in the itasca-mcp-bridge repo and is consumed here as a git submodule.

This repository has two runtime contexts:

  • src/itasca_mcp/ (Python >= 3.10): MCP server package used by clients/tooling
  • itasca-mcp-bridge/ (submodule, PFC embedded Python often 3.6): HTTP bridge running inside PFC GUI

End users get the bridge from PyPI (pip install itasca-mcp-bridge): first install happens via the agentic bootstrap's terminal pip step or addon.py, and from then on itasca_mcp_bridge.start() self-upgrades on every start. The submodule exists only so contributors can edit bridge code alongside MCP code without two clones. The legacy pfc-mcp-bridge PyPI package (last release bridge-v0.3.3) is deprecated.

Core Architecture

MCP side (src/itasca_mcp)

  • Exposes documentation tools and execution tools through FastMCP
  • Communicates with bridge via HTTP client (itasca_mcp.bridge.client)
  • Returns a unified tool envelope: ok, data, error
  • Uses script-first execution model (itasca_execute_task + itasca_check_task_status)

Bridge side (itasca-mcp-bridge submodule)

  • Runs in PFC GUI process
  • Owns thread-safe interaction with ITASCA SDK
  • Handles long-running tasks and diagnostics
  • Started inside PFC GUI via itasca_mcp_bridge.start(), which self-upgrades from PyPI first (best-effort); addon.py remains the manual first-install bootstrap

Repository Layout

itasca-mcp/
├── src/itasca_mcp/
│   ├── bridge/          # MCP-side bridge client/task manager
│   ├── knowledge/       # command/API/reference search system
│   ├── tools/           # MCP tool implementations
│   ├── formatting.py    # shared response formatting
│   └── server.py        # MCP server entrypoint
├── itasca-mcp-bridge/   # submodule → github.com/yusong652/itasca-mcp-bridge
├── addon.py             # PFC-side first-install bootstrap (pip-installs the bridge)
└── tests/               # MCP/tool contract tests

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itasca-mcp GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository yusong652/itasca-mcp (174 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,197 tokens to every session, about $0.0060 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to itasca-mcp AGENTS.md, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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