ship-an-mcp-server

ship-an-mcp-server is a command for Claude Code from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 19 tokens per session (411 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for making a product usable by AI agents through an MCP server, a standard way to expose selected product actions to assistants. It covers the server design, readiness review, pricing, and launch plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose agent-focused tools, define authentication and restricted actions, audit agent readiness, set usage-based pricing boundaries, and plan the server launch.
Why use it?
An API built for people may be difficult or unsafe for agents to use, and agent usage can change pricing economics. This workflow addresses tools, access, safeguards, errors, onboarding, and pricing together.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to choose agent-focused tools, define authentication and restricted actions, audit agent readiness, set usage-based pricing boundaries, and plan the server launch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/ship-an-mcp-server
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,357 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 411 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 $0.00019 $0.00411
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00205
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00041

Measured 12d ago against content hash cb7a3338e3a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-an-mcp-server 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 12d 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.

commands/ship-an-mcp-server.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Run the Ship an MCP Server workflow recipe for: $ARGUMENTS

This is a chain of skills. Run each stage in order and carry every stage's output forward as context for the next. Open with a one-line plan of the 4 stages, then ask once for any essential missing inputs (the product's top user jobs, the existing API surface, the riskiest actions, current pricing model). Don't re-ask between stages.

Run each stage under a clear ## Stage N — <name> heading:

  1. Spec the server — apply the mcp-server-spec skill: a task-shaped toolset (3-10 tools, never an API mirror), auth model, gated actions, the never-exposed list, and the agent test plan.
  2. Audit readiness — apply the agent-readiness-audit skill across all six surfaces (discovery, docs, API/auth, errors, onboarding, guardrails), quoting the failing artifacts; feed the spec from stage 1 so the audit checks against what will actually ship.
  3. Fix the pricing — apply the agent-era-pricing skill: the value metric that survives non-human users, tier fences with named gaming vectors, and cannibalisation math on representative cohorts — informed by which tools stage 1 exposed and what usage they'll drive.
  4. Design the oversight — apply the human-in-the-loop-design skill to every gated action from stage 1: action tiers, the approval budget, escalation rules, and the audit trail.

Close with a one-page rollout summary: the toolset, the top 3 readiness fixes, the pricing decision, and the approval policy — the packet an eng lead and a pricing owner could execute from.

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. 12d ago First seen · 18 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A cb7a3338e3a4

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ship-an-mcp-server is a command published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,357 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 411 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.