otter-mcp-setup

otter-mcp-setup is a skill for Claude Code from AmadeusITGroup/otter. It costs 62 tokens per session (356 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

Setup instructions for connecting the Otter MCP server, a tool service used by coding agents, through npx, a package runner that can fetch and run software without a permanent install.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add Otter to a project's MCP configuration. It also explains how to optionally enable anonymous usage metrics and links to the privacy policy.
Why use it?
It provides the exact configuration needed when the Otter server is unavailable, including settings for Claude Code and VS Code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the otter plugin — 11 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to add Otter to a project's MCP configuration. It also explains how to optionally enable anonymous usage metrics and links to the privacy policy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/amadeusitgroup/otter/otter-mcp-setup
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 AmadeusITGroup/otter --skill otter-mcp-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AmadeusITGroup/otter

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install otter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 356 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00062 $0.00356
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00178
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00036

Measured 8d ago against content hash eacef24fa897, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

otter-mcp-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 8d 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.

tools/llm/plugins/otter/skills/otter-mcp-setup/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Otter MCP Server Setup

This skill guides the installation and configuration of the @o3r/mcp MCP server.

Installation

The @o3r/mcp server runs via npx and requires no permanent installation. Configure it in your MCP settings with:

{
  "@o3r/mcp": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["-y", "-p", "@o3r/mcp", "o3r-mcp-start"]
  }
}

Claude Code

Add the above configuration to .mcp.json at the project root.

VS Code

Add the following to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "Otter": {
    "type": "stdio",
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["-y", "-p", "@o3r/mcp", "o3r-mcp-start"]
  }
}

Metrics (optional)

Ask the user if they want to enable anonymous usage metrics to help improve Otter. If they agree, add an "env" block to the configuration:

"env": {
  "O3R_METRICS": true
}

More details on the privacy policy: https://github.com/AmadeusITGroup/otter/blob/main/PRIVACY.md

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. 8d ago First seen · 52 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A eacef24fa897

Subscribe to this mod's changes

otter-mcp-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository AmadeusITGroup/otter (58 stars, last pushed today), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 356 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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