serve

serve is a command for coding agents from williamzujkowski/mcp-standards-server. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,695 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that starts a local server using the Model Context Protocol, a standard way for language models and development tools to call software functions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting the standards service over a local network port, direct input and output, or a Unix socket, with options for workers, logs, and authentication.
Why use it?
It lets those tools query, validate, and generate development standards through a running service.

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/williamzujkowski/mcp-standards-server/serve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/williamzujkowski/mcp-standards-server

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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 2,695 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00000 $0.02695
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01347
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00539
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00269

Measured 4d ago against content hash 93721cd20f4d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

serve scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer mcp_token_a1b2c3d4e5f6" \
docs/cli/commands/serve.md · 507 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 507 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

serve Command

Start the MCP Standards Server for Model Context Protocol integration.

Synopsis

mcp-standards serve [options]

Description

The serve command starts the MCP Standards Server, which provides a Model Context Protocol interface for LLMs and development tools to interact with standards programmatically. This enables real-time standard queries, validation, and code generation assistance.

Options

--host <address>

Host address to bind to (default: localhost).

mcp-standards serve --host 0.0.0.0

--port <number>

Port to listen on (default: 3000).

mcp-standards serve --port 8080

--stdio

Run in stdio mode for direct tool integration.

mcp-standards serve --stdio

--socket <path>

Use Unix domain socket instead of TCP.

mcp-standards serve --socket /tmp/mcp-standards.sock

--workers <n>

Number of worker processes (default: CPU count).

mcp-standards serve --workers 4

--log-level <level>

Set logging level (debug, info, warning, error).

mcp-standards serve --log-level debug

--auth <type>

Enable authentication (none, token, oauth).

mcp-standards serve --auth token

--tls-cert <file>

TLS certificate file for HTTPS.

mcp-standards serve --tls-cert cert.pem --tls-key key.pem

--daemon

Run as background daemon.

mcp-standards serve --daemon

Examples

Basic Server Start

mcp-standards serve

Output:

Starting MCP Standards Server v1.0.0
Loading standards from cache...
✓ Loaded 45 standards files
✓ Initialized rule engine
✓ Search index ready
✓ Token optimizer configured (gpt-4, 8000 tokens)

Server listening on http://localhost:3000
Available MCP tools:
  - get_applicable_standards
  - validate_code
  - search_standards
  - get_standard_content
  - check_compliance

Press Ctrl+C to stop

Production Server

mcp-standards serve \
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --port 443 \
  --workers 8 \
  --auth token \
  --tls-cert /etc/ssl/certs/mcp.crt \
  --tls-key /etc/ssl/private/mcp.key \
  --log-level info \
  --daemon

Read the full file on GitHub · 507 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. 4d ago First seen · 507 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 93721cd20f4d

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serve is a command published in the GitHub repository williamzujkowski/mcp-standards-server (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,695 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.