frontmcp-development

A guide for building FrontMCP server components other than tools, including resources, reusable prompts, providers, and agents. FrontMCP is a framework for connecting AI clients to server-side capabilities and data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a FrontMCP development task, learning its building blocks, or planning a feature that combines resources, prompts, providers, agents, or skills.
Why use it?
It helps you choose the right kind of component when a feature involves more than a single callable tool. It also points you to the specific development guidance needed for that component.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentfront/frontmcp/frontmcp-development
Any agent
npx skills add agentfront/frontmcp --skill frontmcp-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentfront/frontmcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 196 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,713 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00196 $0.05713
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.02857
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.01143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00571

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8dc9e04b0c41, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

frontmcp-development 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.

libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-development/SKILL.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FrontMCP Development Router

Entry point for building MCP server components. This skill helps you find the right development reference based on what you want to build. It does not teach implementation details itself — it routes you to the specific reference (under references/) that does.

When to Use This Skill

Must Use

  • Starting a FrontMCP development task and unsure which component type to build (tool vs resource vs prompt vs agent)
  • Onboarding to the FrontMCP development model and need an overview of all building blocks
  • Planning a feature that may require multiple component types working together

Recommended

  • Looking up the canonical name of a development reference to install or search
  • Comparing component types to decide which fits your use case
  • Understanding how tools, resources, prompts, agents, and skills relate to each other

Skip When

  • You already know which component to build (go directly to create-tool, create-resource, etc.)
  • You need to configure server settings, not build components (see frontmcp-config)
  • You need to deploy or build, not develop (see frontmcp-deployment)

Decision: Use this skill when you need to figure out WHAT to build. Open the matching reference under references/ directly when you already know.

Prerequisites

  • A scaffolded FrontMCP project (see frontmcp-setup if you don't have one).
  • Familiarity with TypeScript decorators and Zod schemas — every component is decorator-driven and validates I/O via Zod.
  • Decide whether you're adding to an existing @App or composing a new one (multi-app projects: see multi-app-composition).

Steps

This is a router skill. The "steps" here are how to choose the right reference (a markdown file under references/), not how to implement a component.

  1. Identify the component type using the Scenario Routing Table below.
  2. Open the matching reference (e.g. references/create-tool.md, references/create-resource.md) and follow its Steps section.
  3. Compose, if needed: most non-trivial features need two or more components (e.g. tool + provider, resource + adapter). Read each reference independently before wiring them together.
  4. Test before integration (frontmcp-testing) — every component type has a unit-test recipe.

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 First seen · 289 lines · 196 tokens per session scan A 8dc9e04b0c41

Subscribe to this mod's changes

frontmcp-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentfront/frontmcp (147 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 196 tokens to every session and 5,713 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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