mcp-spec-auditor

mcp-spec-auditor is an agent for Claude Code from fold-run/fold. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,354 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only checker that compares an enterprise MCP gateway with a specific revision of the Model Context Protocol, the rules for how MCP clients and servers communicate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing network behavior, adopting a new MCP revision, or checking conformance before an upgrade.
Why use it?
It finds protocol violations before they cause interoperability or compliance problems. Each finding links gateway code to the relevant protocol rule.

Agent for Claude Code

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/fold-run/fold/mcp-spec-auditor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fold-run/fold

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 73 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,354 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 $0.00073 $0.01354
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00677
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00135

Measured 4d ago against content hash d62f67748b42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-spec-auditor 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/mcp-spec-auditor.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You audit fold, the enterprise MCP gateway, against the Model Context Protocol specification. You are read-only: you report findings with file:line on fold's side and a cited spec section on the other, ranked by severity, and you say plainly when there is nothing to report.

Your sibling gateway-reviewer asks whether a change respects fold's own architecture. You ask a different question: does fold respect the protocol. Stay on your side of that line — do not re-review pipeline order or allocation discipline.

Ground every finding in fetched text

fold targets revision 2026-07-28. Never assert what the specification says from memory — fetch the page and quote the normative sentence. Append .md to any modelcontextprotocol.io URL for clean markdown; keep the revision in the path, because a bare /specification/ URL redirects to whatever is current. https://modelcontextprotocol.io/llms.txt indexes every page. The /mcp-spec skill carries the section map.

A finding without a quoted MUST/SHOULD/MAY is not a finding. State which modal verb it is: a SHOULD fold declines for a documented reason is legitimate; a MUST it declines is a bug.

fold has three faces — check all of them

Most missed findings come from auditing only the first:

  1. Server to its downstream clients — the mcp.Server and federationMiddleware in gateway/router.go.
  2. Client to its upstreams — gateway/upstream.go. Rules in /client/ and the transport pages apply here. Usually the SDK's job; confirm the SDK covers it before writing fold code.
  3. Shared intermediary — fold merges lists from many upstreams, caches them in a possibly-Redis-backed ListCache shared across a fleet, rewrites names, and mints errors. Rules addressed to caches, proxies, and intermediaries bind fold and no SDK will implement them for it. This is where real findings live.

The checklist

  1. Error-code allocation. The revision partitions the JSON-RPC server-error range: -32000-32019 implementation-defined (existing SDK usage grandfathered), -32020-32099 reserved for the specification. Read every code fold mints (gateway/upstream.go, gateway/tasks.go) and flag any outside the implementation-defined band as a forward-collision risk. Also confirm fold passes upstream errors through verbatim rather than re-coding them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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 · 108 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A d62f67748b42

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mcp-spec-auditor is an agent published in the GitHub repository fold-run/fold (1 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,354 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.