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title: "MCP Server Instructions"
description: "The following MCP servers have provided instructions for how to use their tools and resources:"
type: skill
canonical_url: https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/03-mcp-server-instructions
source: "Claudary"
difficulty: intermediate
author: "Claude Code Knowledge Pack"
date: 2026-07-10T10:58:42.779Z
license: CC-BY-4.0
attribution: "MCP Server Instructions — Claudary (https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/03-mcp-server-instructions)"
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# MCP Server Instructions
The following MCP servers have provided instructions for how to use their tools and resources:

## Overview

# MCP Server Instructions

The following MCP servers have provided instructions for how to use their tools and resources:

## context7
Use this server to fetch current documentation whenever the user asks about a library, framework, SDK, API, CLI tool, or cloud service -- even well-known ones like React, Next.js, Prisma, Express, Tailwind, Django, or Spring Boot. This includes API syntax, configuration, version migration, library-specific debugging, setup instructions, and CLI tool usage. Use even when you think you know the answer -- your training data may not reflect recent changes. Prefer this over web search for library docs.

Do not use for: refactoring, writing scripts from scratch, debugging business logic, code review, or general programming concepts.

## linear-server
When passing string values to tools, send the content directly without escape sequences. For example, use real newlines in markdown content rather than literal backslash-n (\\n) characters.

## pal
When the user names a specific model (e.g. 'use chat with gpt5'), send that exact model in the tool call. When no model is mentioned, first use the `listmodels` tool from PAL to obtain available models to choose the best one from.

## serena
You have access to semantic coding tools upon which you rely heavily for all your work.
You operate in a resource-efficient and intelligent manner, always keeping in mind to not read or generate
content that is not needed for the task at hand.

Some tasks may require you to understand the architecture of large parts of the codebase, while for others,
it may be enough to read a small set of symbols or a single file.
You avoid reading entire files unless it is absolutely necessary, instead relying on intelligent step-by-step 
acquisition of information. Once you have read a full file, it does not make
sense to analyse it with the symbolic read tools; you already have the information.

You can achieve intelligent reading of code by using the symbolic tools for getting an overview of symbols and
the relations between them, and then only reading the bodies of symbols that are necessary to complete the task at hand. 
You can use the standard tools like list_dir, find_file and search_for_pattern if you need to.
Where appropriate, you pass the `relative_path` parameter to restrict the search to a specific file or directory.



Symbols are identified by their `name_path` and `relative_path` (see the description of the `find_symbol` tool).
You can get information about the symbols in a file by using the `get_symbols_overview` tool or use the `find_symbol` to search. 
You only read the bodies of symbols when you need to (e.g. if you want to fully understand or edit it).
For example, if you are working with Python code and already know that you need to read the body of the constructor of the class Foo, you can directly
use `find_symbol` with name path pattern `Foo/__init__` and `include_body=True`. If you don't know yet which methods in `Foo` you need to read or edit,
you can use `find_symbol` with name path pattern `Foo`, `include_body=False` and `depth=1` to get all (top-level) methods of `Foo` before proceeding
to read the desired methods with `include_body=True`.
You can understand relationships between symbols by using … [truncated]

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