An Ashlr MCP server, where MCP is a standard way for an AI agent to connect to external tools. It provides code-reading, search, directory-mapping, shell-output, usage-accounting, and project-memory tools when launched with the required settings.

Reading large files, searching code, viewing directory maps, examining shell output, tracking token usage, and loading or saving project memory.

It helps an agent inspect a project with less context and keeps reusable project information and token-cost data available.

ashlr — MCP server by ashlrai

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 mcp/ashlrai/ashlr-plugin/ashlr

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashlrai/ashlr-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode.

Or install ashlr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 36 commands, 5 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

ashlr 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.

.mcp.json · 12 lines

What it actually says

{
  "ashlr": {
    "command": "ashlr-mcp",
    "args": [],
    "cwd": ".",
    "env": {
      "ASHLR_MCP_HOST": "codex-cli",
      "ASHLR_CODEX_HOOK_MODE": "nudge"
    },
    "instructions": "Prefer Ashlr tools when they reduce context: use ashlr__read for large files, ashlr__grep for search, ashlr__tree for directory maps, ashlr__bash for verbose shell output, ashlr__savings for token/cost accounting, and ashlr__genome_* tools for project memory. Pass cwd explicitly or set ASHLR_ALLOW_PROJECT_PATHS for workspaces outside the MCP launch cwd."
  }
}

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.

2d ago First seen · 12 lines scan A 486ab60cffd7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ashlr is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository ashlrai/ashlr-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. 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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ashlr

Getting it into your agent

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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