native-mcp

native-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from braxtonROSE4/zorro-agent. It costs 54 tokens per session (3,000 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of native-mcp, MIT.

A built-in client for connecting an AI coding agent to MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. It finds the tools offered by local or remote servers and makes them available to the agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to connect local command-based MCP servers or remote HTTP servers, discover their tools, and make those tools available in every conversation.
Why use it?
It removes the need for a separate bridge program or repeated manual tool setup. External services such as filesystems, databases, APIs, and GitHub can be used from agent conversations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /home/user/projects.

Good fit Use it to connect local command-based MCP servers or remote HTTP servers, discover their tools, and make those tools available in every conversation.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,000 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.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00054 $0.03000
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01500
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00600
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00300

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9e07da394a95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

native-mcp 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 4d 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

This is a copy

89% identical to native-mcp — 32 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/mcp/native-mcp/SKILL.md · 357 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 357 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Native MCP Client

Zorro Agent has a built-in MCP client that connects to MCP servers at startup, discovers their tools, and makes them available as first-class tools the agent can call directly. No bridge CLI needed -- tools from MCP servers appear alongside built-in tools like terminal, read_file, etc.

When to Use

Use this whenever you want to:

  • Connect to MCP servers and use their tools from within Zorro Agent
  • Add external capabilities (filesystem access, GitHub, databases, APIs) via MCP
  • Run local stdio-based MCP servers (npx, uvx, or any command)
  • Connect to remote HTTP/StreamableHTTP MCP servers
  • Have MCP tools auto-discovered and available in every conversation

For ad-hoc, one-off MCP tool calls from the terminal without configuring anything, see the mcporter skill instead.

Prerequisites

  • mcp Python package -- optional dependency; install with pip install mcp. If not installed, MCP support is silently disabled.
  • Node.js -- required for npx-based MCP servers (most community servers)
  • uv -- required for uvx-based MCP servers (Python-based servers)

Install the MCP SDK:

pip install mcp
# or, if using uv:
uv pip install mcp

Quick Start

Add MCP servers to ~/.zorro/config.yaml under the mcp_servers key:

mcp_servers:
  time:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["mcp-server-time"]

Restart Zorro Agent. On startup it will:

  1. Connect to the server
  2. Discover available tools
  3. Register them with the prefix mcp_time_*
  4. Inject them into all platform toolsets

You can then use the tools naturally -- just ask the agent to get the current time.

Configuration Reference

Each entry under mcp_servers is a server name mapped to its config. There are two transport types: stdio (command-based) and HTTP (url-based).

Stdio Transport (command + args)

mcp_servers:
  server_name:
    command: "npx"             # (required) executable to run
    args: ["-y", "pkg-name"]   # (optional) command arguments, default: []
    env:                       # (optional) environment variables for the subprocess
      SOME_API_KEY: "value"
    timeout: 120               # (optional) per-tool-call timeout in seconds, default: 120
    connect_timeout: 60        # (optional) initial connection timeout in seconds, default: 60

Read the full file on GitHub · 357 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. 4d ago First seen · 357 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 9e07da394a95

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native-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository braxtonROSE4/zorro-agent (8 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 3,000 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to native-mcp, differing in 32 lines, and is treated as a copy.