protocol-examples

Examples of the JSON configuration used to connect MCP servers to coding agents, including local processes and remote services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them as references when configuring Cursor or Gemini with standard input/output, server-sent events, or HTTP connections. The examples also show environment variables and authorization headers.
Why use it?
They show how the same kind of server connection is written differently for each agent and connection method.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/aqualia/alph/protocol-examples
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aqualia/Alph
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 443 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00443
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash 79062e393929, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

protocol-examples 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 2d 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.

docs/agents/protocol-examples.md · 106 lines

What it actually says

Protocol Rendering Examples

These examples show how Alph renders MCP server configuration for different agents and transports.

Cursor (project scope file)

  • STDIO:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/github-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "${GITHUB_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  }
}
  • SSE:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linear": {
      "type": "sse",
      "url": "https://mcp.linear.app/sse",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${LINEAR_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  }
}
  • HTTP:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "notion": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.notion.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${NOTION_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Gemini (settings.json)

  • STDIO:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github": {
      "transport": "stdio",
      "command": "github-mcp",
      "args": [],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "${GITHUB_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  }
}
  • SSE:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linear": {
      "transport": "sse",
      "url": "https://mcp.linear.app/sse",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${LINEAR_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  }
}
  • HTTP:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "notion": {
      "httpUrl": "https://mcp.notion.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${NOTION_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  }
}

For agent-specific configuration guides, see docs/agents/README.md.

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. 2d ago First seen · 106 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 79062e393929

Subscribe to this mod's changes

protocol-examples is an agent published in the GitHub repository Aqualia/Alph (69 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 443 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.