Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to davidmosiah/mcp-scorecard. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davidmosiah/mcp-scorecard/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidmosiah/mcp-scorecardWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/davidmosiah/mcp-scorecard/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/davidmosiah/mcp-scorecard/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/davidmosiah/mcp-scorecard/agents-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00279 | $0.00279 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00139 | $0.00139 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00056 | $0.00056 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00028 | $0.00028 |
Grade A, and why
mcp-scorecard AGENTS.md 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 5d 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.
What it actually says
Agent Development Notes
Scope
This repo is an agent-readiness scorecard for MCP servers. It launches a target over stdio, inspects the MCP contract, and emits a scored report without persisting private tool payloads.
Commands
- Install:
npm ci - Typecheck:
npm run typecheck - Build:
npm run build - Self smoke:
npm run test:self - Full gate:
npm test - Package preview:
npm pack --dry-run
Rules
- Do not persist raw MCP responses from probed servers. Keep reports limited to scores, counts, labels, and redacted findings.
- Preserve
MCP_PROBE=1behavior so auth-heavy MCPs can expose contracts without live credentials. - New checks must be deterministic and explain the exact remediation in
fixes. - Keep the score stable enough for CI gates; avoid changing weights casually.
- Any new network behavior must be explicit in docs and disabled for local-path targets unless required.
Agent-readiness checklist
Before publishing a new version:
npm testnpm pack --dry-run- Run the built CLI against at least one known local-first MCP package
- Confirm markdown and JSON outputs both include actionable fixes
- Update
CHANGELOG.mdfor score or output-shape 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.
- 5d ago First seen · 33 lines · 279 tokens per session scan A b7e81a8b0da6
mcp-scorecard AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository davidmosiah/mcp-scorecard (0 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 279 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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.
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