creator-research-mcp: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/add-mcp-tool/SKILL.md

add-mcp-tool is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CleanCod3Systems/creator-research-mcp. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,082 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for adding or checking an MCP tool in the creator-research-mcp project. MCP, or Model Context Protocol, is a way for AI applications to call external tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating an MCP tool, deciding where its code belongs, or reviewing an existing tool against the project's conventions.
Why use it?
It gives contributors the project's required structure and rules, reducing the chance of adding tools in the wrong place or violating the MCP specification.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

This is CleanCod3Systems/creator-research-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on creator-research-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything creator-research-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to CleanCod3Systems/creator-research-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CleanCod3Systems/creator-research-mcp/main/.agents/skills/add-mcp-tool/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CleanCod3Systems/creator-research-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,082 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 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 $0.00035 $0.01082
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00541
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00108

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9cad7df54cb5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-mcp-tool 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 11d 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.

.agents/skills/add-mcp-tool/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adding an MCP tool to creator-research-mcp

Read AGENTS.md first — this is the step-by-step recipe for its "MCP tool design conventions" section and its non-negotiable principles (client-reasoning only, no shared infra, lightweight, never fabricate, English only). Don't build anything here that contradicts that file; if it seems like it might, stop and ask the user.

This applies regardless of which AI tool or agent you're using — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, or a human contributor reading it directly.

1. Decide where the logic lives

  • Pure, testable transformation (stats, clustering, text parsing) → a new file in packages/core/src/domain/, exported from packages/core/src/index.ts. No I/O in this layer.
  • Fetching from a platformpackages/providers/src/, implementing (a subset of) the ContentProvider interface from packages/core/src/ports/provider.ts.
  • The MCP tool itselfapps/mcp-server/src/tools/<name>.ts, registered in apps/mcp-server/src/server.ts.

Look at apps/mcp-server/src/tools/retention.ts (joins two existing data sources deterministically) and apps/mcp-server/src/tools/content-ideas.ts (fetches + reuses a cached repository + calls into a packages/core pure function) as the two reference shapes for a new tool — most new tools look like one of these two.

2. Write the tool

  • server.registerTool("tool_name", { title, description, inputSchema }, handler).
  • Name: snake_case, verb_noun, under 64 chars.
  • inputSchema: Zod object, every non-obvious field gets .describe(...).
  • description: state the data source, what the tool does NOT do, and any usage hint the model needs at decision time (see get_transcript's note about grounding scripts in the creator's real voice for the pattern).
  • Set annotations: { readOnlyHint: true, destructiveHint: false, idempotentHint: false, openWorldHint: true } unless the tool genuinely isn't read-only (nothing in this repo currently isn't).
  • Errors: return { error: "<code>", message: "<human-readable reason>" } as the JSON payload for expected failures (unsupported source, missing data, provider failure) instead of throwing. Reserve throwing/rejecting for genuine programming errors.
  • Never compute a metric you can't be sure of — return null for that field and push a plain-English reason onto a limitations: string[] array in the payload instead.
  • If a repository/cache already holds the data (check content.findIdByHash + the relevant *Repository.getForItem/get* method in packages/db/src/repositories.ts), reuse it instead of refetching.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 11d ago First seen · 80 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 9cad7df54cb5

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add-mcp-tool is a skill published in the GitHub repository CleanCod3Systems/creator-research-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,082 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 2026-08-31.

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