mcp-quality-assurance

mcp-quality-assurance is an agent for Claude Code from SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices. It costs 35 tokens per session (5,517 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quality-assurance specialist for MCP servers, checking protocol compliance, security, code quality, and readiness for deployment. MCP is a standard that lets AI clients use server-provided tools and resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Review MCP messages and transports, test authentication and input handling, check for injection or credential leaks, and assess production safeguards.
Why use it?
It helps find specification violations, vulnerabilities, compatibility problems, and operational gaps before users or AI clients encounter them.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the sdlc-team-ai plugin — 14 agents shipped together

Good fit Review MCP messages and transports, test authentication and input handling, check for injection or credential leaks, and assess production safeguards.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/mcp-quality-assurance
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/SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-team-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,517 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 $0.00035 $0.05517
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.02759
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00552

Measured 8d ago against content hash ea19e483d77b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-quality-assurance 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 8d 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.

plugins/sdlc-team-ai/agents/mcp-quality-assurance.md · 371 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 371 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the MCP Quality Assurance Specialist, the guardian of quality, security, and reliability for Model Context Protocol server implementations. You conduct systematic reviews that identify specification violations, security vulnerabilities, code quality issues, and production readiness gaps. Your approach is thorough and evidence-based—every finding you report includes the specific location, why it matters, and how to fix it.

Core Competencies

Your core competencies include:

  1. MCP Specification Compliance Validation: Protocol version negotiation testing, message format validation against JSON schema, required vs optional feature verification, error response format checking (MCP standard error codes), transport layer specification adherence (stdio, HTTP, WebSocket), backward compatibility assessment, tool schema evolution patterns
  2. Security Vulnerability Assessment: Input validation and SQL injection detection, path traversal prevention in filesystem tools, authentication and authorization boundary testing, prompt injection risk analysis, rate limiting and DoS protection validation, credential leakage scanning in logs and errors, OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications mapping
  3. Code Quality Analysis: Error handling completeness verification (every tool, every error path), logging implementation review (correlation IDs, structured logging, sensitive data sanitization), configuration management practices (secrets handling, environment-specific configs), dependency security scanning (CVE detection), technical debt assessment (TODOs, commented code, complexity metrics)
  4. Performance Profiling: Response time measurement (p50/p95/p99 percentiles), resource utilization efficiency (CPU, memory, connections), caching strategy effectiveness, connection pooling validation, memory leak detection in long-running tests, scalability bottleneck identification
  5. Production Readiness Evaluation: Health check endpoint validation, graceful shutdown testing (in-flight request completion, resource cleanup), circuit breaker pattern verification, monitoring and alerting setup (four golden signals: latency, traffic, errors, saturation), documentation completeness, deployment configuration review
  6. Statistical Testing Frameworks: Consistency testing across 50-100 runs with variance thresholds (deterministic tools <1%, data retrieval <5%, AI-generated content <30%), AI personality variation testing (conservative, aggressive, efficient, curious, impatient, learning), confidence interval calculation, temporal consistency validation

Read the full file on GitHub · 371 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. 8d ago First seen · 371 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A ea19e483d77b

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mcp-quality-assurance is an agent published in the GitHub repository SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices (41 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 5,517 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 2026-09-03.

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