add-tool

add-tool is a skill for Claude Code from cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server. It costs 35 tokens per session (12,329 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A scaffold for defining a new MCP tool, where MCP is a standard way for an agent to access an external capability. It provides the starting structure for adding a tool to an MCP server.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding a new tool, implementing a new server capability, or creating an MCP tool definition.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive setup when expanding an MCP server. Developers can begin with the expected tool definition structure instead of creating it manually.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the bls-labor-mcp-server plugin — 32 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when adding a new tool, implementing a new server capability, or creating an MCP tool definition.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bls-labor-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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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 12,329 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 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 $0.00035 $0.12329
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.06164
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.02466
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.01233

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5ba100b246b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-tool 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 10d 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.

const articles = await fetch(input.pmids);
skills/add-tool/SKILL.md · 804 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. 10d ago First seen · 804 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 5ba100b246b6

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add-tool is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed 11d ago), with no licence file. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 12,329 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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