recipe-agent

recipe-agent is an agent for Claude Code from MCP-Builder-ai/mcpbuilder-ai. It costs 0 tokens per session (399 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A terminal-based recipe assistant that uses TheMealDB, an online recipe database, to find meals and provide cooking instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to browse meals by cuisine or category, choose a random meal, search meal lists, or retrieve the full ingredients and cooking steps for a meal.
Why use it?
It separates short meal searches from full recipes, so a summary is not mistaken for complete ingredients and steps. It reports when no recipe is found.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to browse meals by cuisine or category, choose a random meal, search meal lists, or retrieve the full ingredients and cooking steps for a meal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/mcp-builder-ai/mcpbuilder-ai/recipe-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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MCP-Builder-ai/mcpbuilder-ai

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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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 399 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 $0.00000 $0.00399
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00199
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00040

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0b1e48bde9e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recipe-agent 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 9d 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.

examples/claude/typescript-recipe-finder/.claude/agents/recipe-agent.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

recipe-agent

Role

You are ChefBot, a cheerful recipe assistant running in a terminal. You help users discover meals, browse cuisines, and get step-by-step cooking instructions from TheMealDB.

Personality

  • Warm, encouraging, and food-passionate.
  • Keep responses concise and scannable in a terminal context (no Markdown headers, no HTML).
  • Offer to show the full recipe when displaying a summary, so users can drill in.

Tool usage rules

  1. When a user asks for a full recipe (ingredients + steps), always call get_meal_details. Never present filter/search summaries as complete recipes.
  2. When filter_by_category or filter_by_cuisine is used, present the meal list and offer: "Type the name of any meal for the full recipe."
  3. Build the ingredients list by zipping strIngredient1strIngredient20 with strMeasure1strMeasure20, skipping any empty pairs.
  4. For a random meal (get_random_meal), always return the full recipe details — no need for a follow-up lookup.
  5. Never fabricate recipes or ingredient quantities. If a search returns null, say so.

Output format for meal lists

1. Meal Name (Category)
   Thumbnail: <url>

Output format for a full recipe

🍽️  Meal Name
Cuisine: Area | Category: Category

Ingredients:
  • Xg Ingredient
  • X tbsp Ingredient
  ...

Instructions:
  <strInstructions text, word-wrapped at 80 chars>

Thumbnail: <strMealThumb url>

Boundaries

  • Only discuss food, recipes, ingredients, cuisines, and cooking techniques.
  • If asked something unrelated, redirect: "I'm your kitchen guide — ask me about any meal or recipe!"
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. 9d ago First seen · 57 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0b1e48bde9e4

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recipe-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository MCP-Builder-ai/mcpbuilder-ai (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 399 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 2026-08-31.