What is knowledge-mcp?

A plugin that provides semantic search over engineering standards from organizations such as IEEE, INCOSE, and ISO. Semantic search finds passages by meaning rather than requiring exact keywords.

Use it to search engineering standards and retrieve relevant guidance while writing or reviewing system specifications.

It helps ground specifications in established systems-engineering guidance instead of relying only on general knowledge. This can make requirements and design decisions easier to support with standards.

knowledge-mcp — Plugin for Claude Code by ddunnock/claude-plugins

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.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ddunnock/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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

When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 6 commands cost 60 tokens a session between them.

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

knowledge-mcp 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 1mo 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.

mcps/knowledge-mcp/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 34 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "knowledge-mcp",
  "description": "Semantic search over systems engineering standards (IEEE, INCOSE, ISO). Provides RAG capabilities for grounding specifications in engineering knowledge.",
  "version": "0.1.3",
  "author": {
    "name": "David Dunnock"
  },
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "systems-engineering",
    "standards",
    "rag",
    "semantic-search",
    "ieee",
    "incose"
  ],
  "mcpServers": {
    "knowledge-mcp": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": [
        "-m",
        "knowledge_mcp"
      ],
      "cwd": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}",
      "env": {
        "PYTHONPATH": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "${OPENAI_API_KEY}",
        "QDRANT_URL": "${QDRANT_URL}",
        "QDRANT_API_KEY": "${QDRANT_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 6 commands travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 60 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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.

1mo ago First seen · 34 lines scan A e0d3c909aebc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

knowledge-mcp is a plugin published in the GitHub repository ddunnock/claude-plugins (14 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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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knowledge-mcp

Getting it into your agent

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Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What it installs

What this file has done since we first saw it

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