a2ui-mcp

a2ui-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from a2uicatalog/a2ui. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,034 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Connection guidance for linking an AI agent or host to the A2UI Atomic Catalog through MCP, a standard way for software tools to communicate with AI agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to connect a new host, list available tools, call the catalog’s rendering functions, or diagnose connection and authentication problems.
Why use it?
It explains which server and connection method to use, reducing confusion between the action server and the separate documentation server.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to connect a new host, list available tools, call the catalog’s rendering functions, or diagnose connection and authentication problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/a2uicatalog/a2ui/a2ui-mcp
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 a2uicatalog/a2ui --skill a2ui-mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a2uicatalog/a2ui

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,034 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.
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 $0.00103 $0.01034
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00517
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00103

Measured 7d ago against content hash 5591b6065b56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

a2ui-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 7d 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.

skills/a2ui-mcp/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Connecting to the A2UI MCP server

The default: no credential at all

https://a2uicatalog.ai/mcp

Public, unauthenticated, no signup, no API key. POST speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 (MCP Streamable HTTP): initializetools/listtools/call. GET the same URL with Accept: application/json for a machine-readable server descriptor (every tool, current rate limits, docs links) instead of the human landing page.

POST https://a2uicatalog.ai/mcp
Content-Type: application/json

{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "tools/list"}

If a scanner, spec, or setup wizard told you to look for /auth.md, this is the short answer: just call the endpoint above. The rest of this skill is about the optional authenticated path most integrations don't need.

A separate documentation server

https://a2uicatalog.ai/mcp-docs is a DIFFERENT MCP identity (a2uicatalog-docs) exposing search_docs(query) / list_docs() — it answers questions FROM this product's own docs (auth, versioning, pricing, rate limits). The server above TAKES ACTIONS (compose, render, publish); this one only answers doc questions. Don't confuse the two when an agent needs to look something up rather than do something.

Rendering inline: MCP Apps

Hosts that negotiate the io.modelcontextprotocol/ui extension in their initialize request get inline rendering: render_surface returns a live, interactive view inside the conversation via a ui:// resource — no URL, no size ceiling, nothing stored. On a host that doesn't support MCP Apps, the same tool call just returns the payload as text instead of erroring, so it's always safe to call.

When you actually need a credential

Enterprise platforms whose connector model can't call an unauthenticated service (e.g. Gemini Enterprise's BYO-MCP data store, which requires OAuth 2.0) use a second, gated endpoint: https://a2uicatalog.ai/mcp-auth — the SAME tools as /mcp, behind a real credential. Three accepted mechanisms, in precedence order: Authorization: Bearer <token> (OAuth 2.0 authorization-code flow), X-Api-Key: <key> (for connector templates that offer an API-key field but no OAuth), Authorization: Basic <base64(user:pass)>. An unauthenticated request to /mcp-auth returns 401 with a WWW-Authenticate header carrying a resource_metadata pointer to the RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata document.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 7d ago First seen · 81 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 5591b6065b56

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a2ui-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository a2uicatalog/a2ui (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,034 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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