mcp-cli

mcp-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill. It costs 49 tokens per session (636 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line interface for discovering and calling MCP servers, which provide AI-accessible tools, APIs, files, databases, or other data sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list servers, inspect tool parameters and JSON schemas, search for tools, and call tools with JSON input.
Why use it?
It removes the need to inspect each server manually or build custom commands for every available tool.

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/boshi-xixixi/traeskill/mcp-cli
Any agent
npx skills add boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill --skill mcp-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 636 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 5.1 $0.00049 $0.00636
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00318
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00064

Measured 2d ago against content hash 54081db970e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-cli 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • mcp-cli — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • mcp-cli — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
.trae/Skills/.agents/skills/mcp-cli/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP-CLI

Access MCP servers through the command line. MCP enables interaction with external systems like GitHub, filesystems, databases, and APIs.

Commands

Command Output
mcp-cli List all servers and tool names
mcp-cli <server> Show tools with parameters
mcp-cli <server>/<tool> Get tool JSON schema
mcp-cli <server>/<tool> '<json>' Call tool with arguments
mcp-cli grep "<glob>" Search tools by name

Add -d to include descriptions (e.g., mcp-cli filesystem -d)

Workflow

  1. Discover: mcp-cli → see available servers and tools
  2. Explore: mcp-cli <server> → see tools with parameters
  3. Inspect: mcp-cli <server>/<tool> → get full JSON input schema
  4. Execute: mcp-cli <server>/<tool> '<json>' → run with arguments

Examples

# List all servers and tool names
mcp-cli

# See all tools with parameters
mcp-cli filesystem

# With descriptions (more verbose)
mcp-cli filesystem -d

# Get JSON schema for specific tool
mcp-cli filesystem/read_file

# Call the tool
mcp-cli filesystem/read_file '{"path": "./README.md"}'

# Search for tools
mcp-cli grep "*file*"

# JSON output for parsing
mcp-cli filesystem/read_file '{"path": "./README.md"}' --json

# Complex JSON with quotes (use heredoc or stdin)
mcp-cli server/tool <<EOF
{"content": "Text with 'quotes' inside"}
EOF

# Or pipe from a file/command
cat args.json | mcp-cli server/tool

# Find all TypeScript files and read the first one
mcp-cli filesystem/search_files '{"path": "src/", "pattern": "*.ts"}' --json | jq -r '.content[0].text' | head -1 | xargs -I {} sh -c 'mcp-cli filesystem/read_file "{\"path\": \"{}\"}"'

Options

Flag Purpose
-j, --json JSON output for scripting
-r, --raw Raw text content
-d Include descriptions

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 2d ago First seen · 79 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 54081db970e9

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mcp-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill (261 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 636 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.