It supplies the connection needed to run browser-based application tests from the coding agent. Without this server configuration, the testing add-on cannot use its configured web tools.

argus — MCP server by chriswu727

argus

argus is an MCP server for Claude Code from chriswu727/argus. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A local MCP server that gives the Argus testing add-on access to its web-testing tools. MCP is a way for an AI agent to call tools provided by another process.

In plain words

What is it for?: It is for running Argus web-testing sessions locally, using the project's Python environment and web tool profile.
Why use it?: It supplies the connection needed to run browser-based application tests from the coding agent. Without this server configuration, the testing add-on cannot use its configured web tools.

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: listed in a Claude config.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the argus-testing plugin — 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for running Argus web-testing sessions locally, using the project's Python environment and web tool profile.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add chriswu727/argus

Claude Code

/plugin install argus-testing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install argus-testing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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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. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

argus 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 13d 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.

plugins/claude/.mcp.json · 17 lines

What it actually says

{
  "argus": {
    "command": "uv",
    "args": [
      "run",
      "--isolated",
      "--project",
      "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}",
      "--locked",
      "--python",
      "3.12",
      "argus-mcp",
      "--tool-profile",
      "web"
    ]
  }
}

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.

13d ago Changed · -2 lines 2d9698b21f50
14d ago First seen · 19 lines scan A ced9fd940017

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argus is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository chriswu727/argus (6 stars, last pushed today), 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 2026-10-28.

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