convert

A command that converts an MCP server—a program exposing tools to an AI assistant—into a command-line tool, along with a usage guide for the new tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a local path or GitHub repository to inspect tool definitions, create a TypeScript CLI, generate its SKILL.md instructions, and validate each command.
Why use it?
It gives a defined process for understanding an MCP server, deciding whether conversion is practical, generating the CLI, and checking that it works.

Command

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 commands/myeolinmalchi/mcp2cli/convert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/myeolinmalchi/mcp2cli
Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 320 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 $0.00010 $0.00320
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00160
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00032

Measured yesterday against content hash d0b363a9a0cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

convert 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 yesterday.

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/convert.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

/convert - MCP to CLI Conversion

Convert an MCP server to a token-efficient CLI tool.

Usage

/convert <path-to-mcp-server>

Instructions

When the user runs /convert, execute these phases in order:

Phase 1 — Analyze (uses mcp-analyze skill)

  1. If the path is a GitHub URL, clone the repository first
  2. Read the MCP server's entry point and package manifest
  3. Extract all tool definitions, parameters, and output formats
  4. Classify the server pattern and assess conversion feasibility
  5. Present the analysis table and ask the user to confirm before proceeding

Phase 2 — Generate CLI (uses mcp-codegen skill)

  1. Design the CLI command structure based on the analysis
  2. Generate TypeScript CLI code using the appropriate tier template
  3. If the source is Python, refer to mcp-codegen's references/porting-cheatsheet.md for translation patterns

Phase 3 — Generate SKILL.md (uses skill-author skill)

  1. Generate a SKILL.md for the new CLI tool
  2. Follow the skill template and rules

Phase 4 — Validate

  1. Run each CLI command and verify output
  2. Verify the SKILL.md is correct and complete

If no path is provided, ask the user for the path to the MCP server they want to convert.

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. yesterday First seen · 41 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A d0b363a9a0cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

convert is a command published in the GitHub repository myeolinmalchi/mcp2cli (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 320 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 2026-08-31.