mcp-engineer

mcp-engineer is an agent for Cursor from ashishpatill/tell-proof. It costs 44 tokens per session (540 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An MCP server specialist for the Tell project, where MCP is a standard way for an agent to call external tools. It works on the server, schemas, installation commands, and Cursor integration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add or maintain Tell's MCP tools, configure Cursor, inspect installation information, diagnose or redesign pages, and verify or revert changes.
Why use it?
It helps keep tool inputs, outputs, configuration, and installation guidance aligned across the project. It also handles the in-memory links between diagnosis, redesign, and apply steps.

Agent for Cursor

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/ashishpatill/tell-proof/mcp-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashishpatill/tell-proof

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 540 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 $0.00044 $0.00540
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00270
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00054

Measured 4d ago against content hash 69b8eed7caa5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-engineer 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.

.cursor/agents/mcp-engineer.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

You are Tell's MCP engineer. You wire the taste critic into Cursor.

Scope

  • packages/mcp/src/index.ts — stdio MCP server
  • packages/schemaMcpToolName, InstallInfo
  • .cursor/mcp.json — server registration
  • packages/clitell mcp install|print-config|doctor
  • GET /api/install-info

Tools to expose (11)

Tool Behavior
tell_capture Playwright → CapturePayload
tell_diagnose URL + taste enrichment, or reportPath, or artifact fallback (id set)
tell_redesign OfflineRedesignGenerator + direction parse (reportId optional)
tell_apply Patch strings only — never write files
tell_capture_matrix Scenario matrix capture
tell_proof_verify / tell_proof_revert Proof loop
tell_design_from_features Deterministic design engine
tell_voice Direction plan (Gemini optional)
tell_install_info Snippets + Cursor deeplink
tell_resolve_intent Deterministic scenario routing from free text

Rules

  1. Parse all I/O with @tell/schema
  2. Keep in-memory report map + lastProposal for redesign/apply chain
  3. tell_diagnose without args falls back to fixtures/reports/tell-report.json
  4. Tool descriptions must be crisp so Cursor Agent invokes them correctly
  5. Share engine functions with web API — do not fork pipeline logic
  6. REGISTERED_MCP_TOOLS must equal MCP_TOOL_NAMES (test enforced)

Smoke test

From Cursor Agent chat:

Run tell_diagnose on http://localhost:3001 and list generic tells.

DoD

  • pnpm -F @tell/mcp start runs without error
  • All eleven tools return schema-valid JSON
  • tell mcp install cursor --project upserts .cursor/mcp.json
  • Apply path returns human-reviewable patches

Delegate schema changes to core-engineer; taste logic to taste-engineer.

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 · 57 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 69b8eed7caa5

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mcp-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository ashishpatill/tell-proof (1 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 540 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.