mcp-ops

mcp-ops is a skill for Claude Code from 0xDarkMatter/claude-mods. It costs 72 tokens per session (3,503 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building Model Context Protocol servers, which let AI applications call tools and access data from other programs. It covers tool design, resources, handlers, configuration, and connection methods such as standard input/output and HTTP.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop or troubleshoot MCP servers in Python or TypeScript. It applies to MCP tools, resources, prompts, transports, and inspection or deployment setups.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose and configure the parts needed to connect an AI host to their own services. It also provides patterns for implementing and testing these server connections.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the claude-mods plugin — 103 skills, 3 commands, 3 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to develop or troubleshoot MCP servers in Python or TypeScript. It applies to MCP tools, resources, prompts, transports, and inspection or deployment setups.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/0xdarkmatter/claude-mods/mcp-ops
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 0xDarkMatter/claude-mods --skill mcp-ops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xDarkMatter/claude-mods

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-mods, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills, 3 commands, 3 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,503 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 234
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 264
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 357
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00072 $0.03503
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01751
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00701
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00350

Measured 9d ago against content hash b2a03cec3a29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-ops 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/check-mcp-facts.py, tests/run.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/mcp-ops/SKILL.md · 360 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 360 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Operations

Comprehensive patterns for building, testing, and deploying Model Context Protocol servers in Python and TypeScript.

Ecosystem facts verified as of 2026-07-05 (standalone FastMCP at major 3).

MCP Architecture Quick Reference

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                     MCP Host                            │
│  (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Custom App)              │
│                                                         │
│  ┌───────────┐   ┌───────────┐   ┌───────────┐        │
│  │  Client A  │   │  Client B  │   │  Client C  │       │
│  └─────┬─────┘   └─────┬─────┘   └─────┬─────┘        │
└────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┘
         │               │               │
    ┌────┴────┐     ┌────┴────┐     ┌────┴────┐
    │Transport│     │Transport│     │Transport│
    │ (stdio) │     │  (SSE)  │     │ (HTTP)  │
    └────┬────┘     └────┬────┘     └────┬────┘
         │               │               │
┌────────┴──┐     ┌──────┴────┐   ┌──────┴────┐
│  Server A  │     │  Server B  │   │  Server C  │
│            │     │            │   │            │
│ ┌────────┐ │     │ ┌────────┐ │   │ ┌────────┐ │
│ │ Tools  │ │     │ │Resources│ │   │ │Prompts │ │
│ └────────┘ │     │ └────────┘ │   │ └────────┘ │
│ ┌────────┐ │     │ ┌────────┐ │   │ ┌────────┐ │
│ │Resources│ │     │ │Prompts │ │   │ │ Tools  │ │
│ └────────┘ │     │ └────────┘ │   │ └────────┘ │
└────────────┘     └────────────┘   └────────────┘

Protocol: JSON-RPC 2.0 over chosen transport
Flow:     Client → request → Server → response → Client

Server Type Decision Tree

What transport does your MCP server need?
│
├─ Local CLI tool / single-user desktop integration?
│  └─ stdio
│     - Simplest setup, no networking
│     - Claude Desktop, Claude Code native support
│     - Process lifecycle managed by host
│
├─ Web dashboard / browser-based client?
│  └─ SSE (Server-Sent Events)
│     - HTTP-based, works through firewalls
│     - Persistent connection for server→client events
│     - Good for development and internal tools
│
└─ Production API / multi-tenant / cloud deployment?
   └─ Streamable HTTP
      - HTTP POST for requests, SSE for streaming responses
      - Supports stateless and stateful modes
      - Full auth support, load balancer friendly
      - Recommended for production deployments

Read the full file on GitHub · 360 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 360 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A b2a03cec3a29

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mcp-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0xDarkMatter/claude-mods (34 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 3,503 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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