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.
npx agentmods add instructions/stacklok/toolhive-catalog/claude-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive-catalogWhat 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 | $0.00377 | $0.00377 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00188 | $0.00188 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00075 | $0.00075 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00038 | $0.00038 |
Grade A, and why
toolhive-catalog CLAUDE.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 2d 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
toolhive-catalog
Curated registry of MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and skills for ToolHive.
Skills
/add-mcp-server— use when adding a new server entry to the catalog/mcp-review— use when reviewing a PR that adds or updates a server entry
Key commands
Uses Taskfile, not Make:
task catalog:validate # validate all server.json files
task catalog:build # build the catalog output
task test # run Go tests
task lint # run linters
Registry structure
Each server lives at registries/toolhive/servers/<name>/ containing:
server.json— server definition (seedocs/adding-entries-llm.mdfor full schema)icon.svg— server icon
Each skill lives at registries/toolhive/skills/<name>/ containing:
skill.json— skill definition (usesSkilltype from toolhive-core)icon.svg— skill iconskill/— subfolder with installable content (SKILL.md, scripts/, references/, assets/)- The
packages[].subfolderin skill.json points here so only skill content is installed, not registry metadata
- The
Non-obvious gotchas
- The
_metaextension key must exactly matchpackages[0].identifierorremotes[0].url metadata.*andtool_definitionsare auto-populated by CI — never add them manually- Commits require a
Signed-off-bytrailer (DCO)
Go code
CLI entry point: cmd/catalog/. Packages: internal/. Requires Go 1.25+.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 42 lines · 377 tokens per session scan A cca1dedb9611
toolhive-catalog CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository stacklok/toolhive-catalog (21 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 377 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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.
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