manage-mcp-servers

manage-mcp-servers is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AIWerk/openclaw-mcp-bridge. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,222 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for managing MCP servers in the OpenClaw MCP bridge. MCP servers provide extra tools that an agent can connect to.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list available or installed servers, install or remove one, check which servers are connected, and investigate MCP connection errors.
Why use it?
It keeps server installation, removal, status checks, and connection troubleshooting in one workflow, with configuration backups and gateway restarts handled during changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to list available or installed servers, install or remove one, check which servers are connected, and investigate MCP connection errors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aiwerk/openclaw-mcp-bridge/manage-mcp-servers
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 AIWerk/openclaw-mcp-bridge --skill manage-mcp-servers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AIWerk/openclaw-mcp-bridge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,222 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00050 $0.01222
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00611
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00122

Measured 12d ago against content hash 534c15ab925c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manage-mcp-servers scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Blocked: `curl|bash`, `curl|sh`, `wget|bash`, `sudo`, piped remote execution
skills/manage-mcp-servers/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

manage-mcp-servers

Use this skill for any MCP server management task: install, remove, list, status, troubleshoot.

Trigger Conditions

Activate when requests mention:

  • adding/installing a new MCP server
  • removing/uninstalling an MCP server
  • listing available or installed servers
  • checking MCP server status or health
  • troubleshooting MCP connection errors
  • "what MCP servers do I have?"

Key Paths

PLUGIN_DIR=~/.openclaw/extensions/openclaw-mcp-bridge
SCRIPT=$PLUGIN_DIR/scripts/install-server.sh
SERVERS=$PLUGIN_DIR/servers/
CONFIG=~/.openclaw/openclaw.json
ENV=~/.openclaw/.env

Actions

List available servers (catalog)

ls $PLUGIN_DIR/servers/

Or use the MCP tool:

mcp(action="status")

List installed servers

mcp(action="status")

Shows connected servers with tool counts.

Install a server

If in catalog:

bash $PLUGIN_DIR/scripts/install-server.sh <name>

This handles: backup, config update, env var prompts, gateway restart.

If NOT in catalog: Follow the "Add new server" flow below.

Remove a server

bash $PLUGIN_DIR/scripts/install-server.sh <name> --remove

This handles:

  • Backup of openclaw.json
  • Remove server entry from config
  • Remove env var from .env (if applicable)
  • Prompt for gateway restart

Check server health

mcp(server="<name>", action="list")

If this returns tools, the server is healthy. If it fails:

  • Check if the server process is running
  • Check env vars are set in ~/.openclaw/.env
  • Check gateway logs: journalctl --user -u openclaw-gateway.service -n 50

Add New Server Flow (not in catalog)

1. Verify source

Confirm target: GitHub URL, npm package, PyPI package, Docker image, or remote endpoint.

2. Build config from docs

  1. Read README; extract: name, description, transport, command/url, args, env, auth.
  2. Transport heuristics:
    • npx/node/python/docker run -i -> stdio
    • URL + SSE -> sse
    • Single HTTP endpoint -> streamable-http
  3. If unsure about transport/command/args: ask, don't guess.

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 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. 12d ago First seen · 172 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 534c15ab925c

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manage-mcp-servers is a skill published in the GitHub repository AIWerk/openclaw-mcp-bridge (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,222 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.