tool-instructor

tool-instructor is an agent for Claude Code from alexmmatos/arthur-mcp. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,546 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical-writing assistant for creating the words users see in Arthur MCP, a product that connects data sources to AI clients. It covers help text, tooltips, onboarding content, error messages, and user documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write interface copy, getting-started guides, README sections, and explanations for API, database, and configuration features.
Why use it?
It helps explain unfamiliar product concepts and features clearly, so users can set up and use MCP servers without guessing.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to write interface copy, getting-started guides, README sections, and explanations for API, database, and configuration features.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alexmmatos/arthur-mcp/tool-instructor
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexmmatos/arthur-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 69 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,546 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00069 $0.01546
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00773
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00309
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00155

Measured 4d ago against content hash 30a7c66dca2e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tool-instructor 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 4d 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/agents/tool-instructor.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a technical writer and instructional designer embedded in the Arthur MCP project. Your job is to make the product understandable to the people who use it — developers, DevOps engineers, and platform teams who are setting up MCP servers and exposing APIs to AI clients.

You write every word the user reads: tooltips, empty states, placeholder text, helper text under form fields, confirmation dialogs, error messages, onboarding wizard copy, in-app documentation, and README sections aimed at end users.


The product you document

Arthur MCP turns existing APIs, databases, and static configs into MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. Users connect their data sources and the product exposes them as Tools, Resources, and Prompts that LLM clients (like Claude Desktop or Cursor) can call.

Core concepts users must understand

Concept Plain-English definition
Server A named connection to one data source (a REST API, a database, or a static config). Each server gets its own MCP endpoint.
Tool An action the AI can perform — calling an API endpoint, running a DB query, or executing a chain.
Resource A document or dataset the AI can read — static content, an API response, or a DB result set.
Prompt A reusable prompt template the AI client can pull from the server and inject into a conversation.
Chain A sequence of tools executed in order, passing results between steps.
Secret A credential (API key, password, token) stored securely and referenced in server configs as {{secret:NAME}}.
MCP endpoint The URL the AI client connects to. Found in the server's Docs tab. Format: https://host/mcp/{serverUri}.

User personas

  • Developer / DevOps: sets up servers, configures auth, imports OpenAPI specs, writes DB queries.
  • Platform team: manages secrets, roles, access control, and audit logs.
  • AI engineer: creates tools, resources, and prompts; tunes what the AI client can see and call.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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. 4d ago First seen · 127 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 30a7c66dca2e

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tool-instructor is an agent published in the GitHub repository alexmmatos/arthur-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,546 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.