mcp-tester

mcp-tester is a skill for Claude Code from ckorhonen/claude-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (5,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing guide for MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools, which let an application provide actions or data to an AI assistant. It checks the tools available in a Claude Code session and evaluates how they are described and used.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inventory MCP tools, create test cases, inspect their inputs and outputs, and debug MCP configurations.
Why use it?
It helps find missing servers, unclear tool descriptions, inefficient parameters, duplicate tools, and integration problems before they cause failures.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node dist/index.js # Should hang waiting for input (stdio) or log port (HTTP).

Part of the claude-skills plugin — 62 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to inventory MCP tools, create test cases, inspect their inputs and outputs, and debug MCP configurations.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ckorhonen/claude-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ckorhonen/claude-skills/mcp-tester

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,591 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 $0.00080 $0.05591
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.02795
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00559

Measured 12d ago against content hash e646203d8478, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-tester 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.

curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/mcp \
skills/mcp-tester/SKILL.md · 768 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 768 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Tool Tester

A comprehensive skill for testing and evaluating MCP (Model Context Protocol) server tools available in the current Claude Code session.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Auditing MCP server configurations
  • Validating tool quality and descriptions
  • Generating test cases for MCP tools
  • Checking tool naming conventions and parameter efficiency
  • Analyzing tool redundancy across servers
  • Evaluating response quality and format efficiency
  • Debugging MCP integration issues

Prerequisites

MCP servers must be configured in your Claude Code settings. If the user asks to test tools that don't exist, guide them to add the MCP server to their configuration.

Workflow

Execute these phases in order for comprehensive testing:

Phase 1: Discovery

Identify all MCP tools available in the current session.

Steps:

  1. List all tools with mcp__ prefix
  2. Group by server (namespace before second __)
  3. Generate inventory table

Output Format:

## Tool Inventory

| Server | Tool Name | Required Params | Optional Params | Description Preview |
|--------|-----------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------------|
| context7 | resolve-library-id | libraryName, query | - | Resolves package to Context7 ID... |
| context7 | query-docs | libraryId, query | - | Retrieves documentation... |

Metrics to Report:

  • Total servers: [count]
  • Total tools: [count]
  • Tools per server breakdown

Phase 2: Quality Analysis

Evaluate each tool's design quality.

Naming Convention Analysis

Check for:

  • Kebab-case consistency: get-user not getUser or get_user
  • Verb-first naming: create-item, list-users, delete-record
  • Clarity: Can purpose be understood from name alone?
  • Namespace collisions: Similar names across servers
Description Quality Scoring
Score Criteria
Excellent Clear purpose, usage context, examples, input/output expectations
Good Clear purpose, some context, basic expectations
Fair Purpose stated but lacking context or examples
Poor Vague, missing, or misleading description

Read the full file on GitHub · 768 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 · 768 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A e646203d8478

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mcp-tester is a skill published in the GitHub repository ckorhonen/claude-skills (14 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 5,591 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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