mcp-file-tools

mcp-file-tools is a plugin for Claude Code from dimitar-grigorov/mcp-file-tools. Its manifest loads nothing; the 1 skill, 1 MCP server it bundles cost 159 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A filesystem service for reading and writing text files in encodings other than standard UTF-8, including several Windows, Cyrillic, East Asian, and UTF-16 formats.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect or edit files with unknown or non-UTF-8 encodings while retaining their original encoding and formatting.
Why use it?
It prevents text corruption when files use a legacy encoding, byte-order mark, or line-ending style that ordinary tools may not preserve.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it to inspect or edit files with unknown or non-UTF-8 encodings while retaining their original encoding and formatting.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add dimitar-grigorov/mcp-file-tools
/plugin install mcp-file-tools
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/dimitar-grigorov/mcp-file-tools

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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 1 skill, 1 MCP server cost 159 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 unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-file-tools 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.

plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 12 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill, 1 MCP server travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 159 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.

  1. 2d ago Changed c2ad58e28eea
  2. 4d ago Changed d78787db3b24
  3. 20d ago Changed c1b488c2f63c
  4. 1mo ago Changed f2edf7a2fe27
  5. 1mo ago Changed f052c1937990
  6. 1mo ago First seen · 12 lines scan A 2363704952e5

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mcp-file-tools is a plugin published in the GitHub repository dimitar-grigorov/mcp-file-tools (25 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed GPL-3.0. 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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