A command that checks whether the code-indexing MCP tools are available, the repository is ready, and searches are working. MCP is a standard way for an agent to use external tools.

Run it to check index health, test symbol and code searches, inspect available plugins, and review reported readiness results.

It helps find problems with the index or tool setup before relying on search results, including when a fallback search is needed.

How Consiliency/Code-Index-MCP configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Consiliency/Code-Index-MCP. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Consiliency/Code-Index-MCP/main/.claude/commands/verify-mcp.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Consiliency/Code-Index-MCP

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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 422 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00422
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00169
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00084
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00042

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 7586426a3384, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verify-mcp 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 2mo 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/commands/verify-mcp.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Verify MCP Usage

Check if MCP tools are being used correctly and efficiently.

Usage

/verify-mcp

What It Does

This command performs a self-check to verify:

MCP tools are available and working
Repository readiness is ready
Search performance is optimal
index_unavailable responses are treated as native_search fallback signals

Verification Steps

Check MCP Status
- Uses mcp__code-index-mcp__get_status()
- Verifies index health and repository readiness
Test Symbol Lookup
- Quick test: mcp__code-index-mcp__symbol_lookup(symbol="PluginManager")
- Should return in <100ms
Test Code Search
- Quick test: mcp__code-index-mcp__search_code(query="def test_", limit=5)
- Should return in <500ms
List Available Plugins
- Uses mcp__code-index-mcp__list_plugins()
- Should show 48 languages

Expected Output

✅ MCP Verification Results:
- Status: Healthy
- Repository Readiness: ready
- Indexed Files: 312
- Languages: 48
- Symbol Lookup: <100ms
- Code Search: <500ms
- Indexed Search: ready
- Fallback: index_unavailable -> safe_fallback native_search

All systems operational!

Troubleshooting

If verification fails:

Check if MCP server is running
Verify index exists in .mcp-index/
If readiness is non-ready, use native_search and run reindex when remediation asks for it
Ensure AGENTS.md is loaded
Review recent tool usage patterns

Performance Baseline

Compare against these benchmarks:

Symbol lookup: <100ms (vs grep: 45s)
Pattern search: <500ms (vs grep: 30s)
Semantic search: <1s (grep: impossible)

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.

2mo ago First seen · 67 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7586426a3384

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify-mcp is a command published in the GitHub repository Consiliency/Code-Index-MCP (60 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 422 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.

Building agents

verify-mcp next to 6 commands from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
verify-mcpConsiliency/Code-Index-MCP	Command	60	yesterday	MIT	A	0	Claude Code
checklistgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
clarifygithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	27	Claude Code
specifygithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
analyzegithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	26	Claude Code
convergegithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	35	Claude Code
implementgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	14	Claude Code

Code-Index-MCP: Command for Claude Code