api-linter

api-linter is a skill for Claude Code from cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server. It costs 86 tokens per session (16,931 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A reference guide to lint rules for MCP definitions. MCP definitions describe tools and resources that an MCP server makes available to other software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when bun run lint:mcp or bun run devcheck reports issues such as invalid schemas, naming, formatting, or server metadata.
Why use it?
It explains lint errors and warnings, their severity, and the changes needed to fix them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the biorxiv-mcp-server plugin — 33 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when bun run lint:mcp or bun run devcheck reports issues such as invalid schemas, naming, formatting, or server metadata.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server/api-linter
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 cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server --skill api-linter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install biorxiv-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for api-linter

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server/api-linter/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server/api-linter)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server/api-linter"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server/api-linter/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for api-linter

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server/api-linter"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server/api-linter.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 16,931 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 unknown 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 $0.00086 $0.16931
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.06772
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.03386
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.01693

Measured 12d ago against content hash f37eb9148e64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-linter 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 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.

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.

framework-skills/api-linter/SKILL.md · 1,144 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 Changed f37eb9148e64
  2. 27d ago Changed · +73 lines 352a46f60bca
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +87 lines 732bdab6c84e
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 984 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 8f2c3de62558

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-linter is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 16,931 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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