mcp-medium-reader: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

mcp-medium-reader CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ZhgChgLi/mcp-medium-reader. It costs 1,404 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of mcp-medium-reader AGENTS.md, MIT.

Repository instructions for working on mcp-medium-reader, a cross-platform server that retrieves Medium articles through an external Ruby tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing, testing, packaging, or fixing the mcp-medium-reader repository.
Why use it?
They explain how to build, run, test, and package the project, including a requirement to keep compiled files updated for some installations.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is ZhgChgLi/mcp-medium-reader's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on mcp-medium-reader 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-medium-reader configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ZhgChgLi/mcp-medium-reader. 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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ZhgChgLi/mcp-medium-reader

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What it costs to keep this loaded

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Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-medium-reader 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to mcp-medium-reader AGENTS.md — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

CLAUDE.md · 40 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 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.

Commands

  • npm run buildtscdist/ (the bin/mcp-medium-reader.js shim imports from dist/, so unbuilt source won't run via the bin).
  • npm run dev -- <subcommand> — run via tsx without building (e.g. npm run dev -- doctor).
  • npm test — full vitest run.
  • npm test -- test/runtime.test.ts — single test file. npm test -- -t "name" for a single test by name.
  • npm run build:watch / npm run test:watch — watch modes.
  • prepack runs tsc, so npm pack / publish always ships fresh dist/. The repo also commits dist/ because git-based installs (npm i -g github:…) skip the prepare step — keep committed dist/ in sync when shipping a fix that needs to be installable from git.

Architecture

Cross-platform MCP stdio server that wraps the external ZMediumToMarkdown Ruby gem (≥ 3.5.2). The Node process never talks to Medium directly; every tool call shells out to the gem and post-processes its stdout/stderr. Runs on macOS / Linux / Windows.

Cookie ownership boundary

Cookies (sid / uid / cf_clearance / _cfuvid) are managed entirely by the gem in its own AES-256-GCM encrypted cache at ~/.zmediumtomarkdown (mode 0600). The MCP server does NOT store, inject, or scrub cookies. Users populate the gem cache by running ZMediumToMarkdown --auth once in their own Terminal — the gem opens Chrome via ferrum for sign-in / Cloudflare clearance and caches the result. The MCP transport gives the gem a non-TTY stdin which trips its --non-interactive auto-detection, so the gem can never do its own Chrome flow under MCP.

The MCP server holds no Medium-side state of its own — no cookies, no proxy URLs, no per-user secrets. Earlier drafts had a Cloudflare Worker proxy pair (medium_host / miro_medium_host) stored at <config_dir>/credentials.json; that whole layer was removed. The only on-disk state mcp-medium-reader manages now is runtime.json (the bound Ruby runtime).

Read the full file on GitHub · 40 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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mcp-medium-reader CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ZhgChgLi/mcp-medium-reader (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,404 tokens to every session, about $0.0070 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to mcp-medium-reader AGENTS.md, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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