frontmcp-setup

A setup guide for starting or organizing a FrontMCP project, a Node-based server project that connects apps and tools through the Model Context Protocol. It covers project layouts, storage choices, and combining multiple apps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a new FrontMCP project, organize an existing one, choose between a standalone project and an Nx monorepo, configure Redis or SQLite storage, or combine several apps in one server.
Why use it?
It helps you choose a suitable project structure and setup path before writing application code. It also reduces confusion about where files, dependencies, and storage should go.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,767 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 $0.00176 $0.03767
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01884
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00753
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00377

Measured 2d ago against content hash 237a6f5dc839, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

frontmcp-setup 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-setup/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FrontMCP Setup Router

Entry point for project setup and scaffolding. This skill helps you find the right setup guide based on your project needs — from initial scaffolding to storage backends, project structure, and multi-app composition.

When to Use This Skill

Must Use

  • Starting a new FrontMCP project from scratch and need to choose between standalone vs Nx monorepo
  • Setting up storage backends (Redis, SQLite) for session or state management
  • Organizing an existing project and need canonical directory layout guidance

Recommended

  • Onboarding to the FrontMCP project structure and naming conventions
  • Setting up multi-app composition within a single server
  • Understanding the skills system and how to browse, install, and manage skills

Skip When

  • You need to build specific components like tools or resources (see frontmcp-development)
  • You need to configure transport, auth, or throttling (see frontmcp-config)
  • You need to deploy or build for a target platform (see frontmcp-deployment)

Decision: Use this skill when you need to CREATE or ORGANIZE a project. Use other routers when you need to build, configure, deploy, or test.

Prerequisites

  • Node.js 24+ and npm/yarn installed
  • frontmcp CLI available globally (npm install -g frontmcp)

Steps

  1. Use the Scenario Routing Table below to find the right setup guide for your task
  2. Scaffold your project with frontmcp create (standalone) or frontmcp create --nx (monorepo)
  3. Configure storage and project structure per the relevant reference files
  4. Follow the Recommended Reading Order for a complete setup walkthrough

Scenario Routing Table

Scenario Reference Description
Scaffold a new project with frontmcp create references/setup-project.md CLI scaffolder (flags: --target, --redis, --skills <bundle>, --cicd, --nx, --pm)
Organize a standalone (non-Nx) project references/project-structure-standalone.md File layout, naming conventions (<name>.<type>.ts), folder hierarchy
Organize an Nx monorepo references/project-structure-nx.md apps/, libs/, servers/ layout, generators, dependency rules
Set up Redis for production storage references/setup-redis.md Docker Redis, Vercel KV, pub/sub for distributed subscriptions (single-server uses in-memory)
Set up SQLite for local development references/setup-sqlite.md WAL mode, migration helpers, encryption
Compose multiple apps into one server references/multi-app-composition.md @FrontMcp with multiple @App classes, cross-app providers
Use Nx build, test, and CI commands references/nx-workflow.md nx build, nx test, nx run-many, caching, affected commands
Browse, install, and manage skills references/frontmcp-skills-usage.md CLI commands (search, list, install, read, export, publish), bundles, categories, bulk install
Generate or update project README.md references/readme-guide.md Deployment-target-aware README for npm, CLI, Docker, serverless

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 lines

Files

What ships with it

34 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 · 221 lines · 176 tokens per session scan A 237a6f5dc839

Subscribe to this mod's changes

frontmcp-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentfront/frontmcp (147 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 3,767 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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