tool-defs-analysis

tool-defs-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from cyanheads/calculator-mcp-server. It costs 177 tokens per session (4,277 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of tool-defs-analysis, Apache-2.0.

A read-only review guide for the language used by an MCP server's tools, data resources, and prompts. It checks whether an AI agent can understand what to call, how to provide inputs, and how to recover from errors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit MCP definition files, parameter descriptions, output schemas, recovery guidance, and server instructions before or during maintenance.
Why use it?
It finds unclear descriptions, stale defaults, hidden implementation details, and other wording that can cause an agent to choose or use a server feature incorrectly.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to audit MCP definition files, parameter descriptions, output schemas, recovery guidance, and server instructions before or during maintenance.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install calculator-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 177 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,277 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 100% 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 $0.00177 $0.04277
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.02139
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00855
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00428

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1d1f27b114eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tool-defs-analysis 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 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.

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

100% identical to tool-defs-analysis — 0 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/tool-defs-analysis/SKILL.md · 280 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context

Every string in a tool/resource/prompt definition is part of an LLM-facing API contract. The model reads the description, every parameter .describe(), the output schema, the recovery hints — and decides what to call and how. Definition language drifts: an internal mapping leaks into a parameter doc during a fix, a self-referential output description survives a refactor, a default that suited the developer at scaffold time stays after the typical call shape changes.

This skill is the review-time pass for that drift. Read each definition the way a mid-tier model with no project context would — can it pick the tool, fill the fields, and recover from errors using only the rendered schema?

Skill Lens
design-mcp-server Authoring rules at write-time
field-test Behavior testing + a narrow 3-category leak audit
security-pass Injection, scopes, input sinks
tool-defs-analysis (this) LLM-facing language across the existing surface

field-test already audits descriptions for implementation leaks, meta-coaching, and consumer-aware phrasing during its catalog step — that's a fast shallow pass alongside live tool calls. This skill is the deeper review: 16 categories, every field, every recovery hint, every default value, with file:line citations — plus a cross-surface pass for the drift no single file shows.

Read-only. This skill produces a report; the maintainer applies fixes. While running it, do not run git, do not stage or commit, do not update the changelog, do not run devcheck, do not invoke wrapup or release workflows. Fixes flow through the normal authoring path (edit the definition, then re-run this skill if you want to verify).

When to Use

  • After a polish session or refactor that touched definitions
  • Before a release, alongside polish-docs-meta and security-pass
  • When the user says "review my tool definitions", "audit descriptions", "are my tool descriptions any good"
  • After scaffolding a new server but before it ships

Read the full file on GitHub · 280 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. 10d ago First seen · 280 lines · 177 tokens per session scan A 1d1f27b114eb

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tool-defs-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/calculator-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 177 tokens to every session and 4,277 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to tool-defs-analysis, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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