api-config

api-config is a skill for Claude Code from cyanheads/clipboard-mcp-server. It costs 43 tokens per session (7,236 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of api-config, Apache-2.0.

A reference guide for configuring an MCP server, covering framework settings and your own application settings. It explains environment variables, defaults, priority rules, and Zod validation, where Zod is a library for checking data against defined shapes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define server-specific settings, understand environment-variable behavior, and implement configuration parsing with `@cyanheads/mcp-ts-core`.
Why use it?
It helps prevent configuration values from being merged incorrectly or read with the wrong precedence, including on Cloudflare Workers.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to define server-specific settings, understand environment-variable behavior, and implement configuration parsing with @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,236 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 $0.00043 $0.07236
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.02894
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.01447
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00724

Measured 16d ago against content hash cb146af52ee7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-config 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 16d 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 api-config — 3 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.

framework-skills/api-config/SKILL.md · 310 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 310 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Configuration has two layers: core config (managed by the framework, env-driven) and server config (your own Zod schema for domain-specific env vars). Never merge them.

Import: AppConfig, config, parseConfig, resetConfig, ConfigSchema from @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/config.


Core config

Managed by @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core. Validated via Zod from environment variables. Uses a lazy proxy — parsing is deferred until the first property read.

Priority (highest to lowest):

  1. name/version/title/websiteUrl/description/icons options passed to createApp() or createWorkerHandler()
  2. Environment variables
  3. sessionMode.default passed to createApp() — a default, so it sits below the env var it seeds, unlike the identity options above
  4. package.json fields

Where package.json is read from: the application root — the nearest package.json at or above the process entry module (process.argv[1]), which is the served package on every launch path (npx, .mcpb, a client config naming dist/index.js), none of which run from the package root. The launching client's working directory is never the anchor: a stdio client starts the server from wherever it happens to be, so reading identity from there makes a server report a foreign project's name and version. When the entry module is a tool installed under a node_modules tree and the process runs from the directory owning that tree — a test runner is the usual case — the nearest manifest at or above the working directory wins instead. That also covers a workspace monorepo, where the runner is hoisted to the repo root while the process runs from a package directory: an owner that is a strict ancestor of the working directory qualifies only when it declares a workspace (a workspaces field in its manifest, or a pnpm-workspace.yaml beside it), which is what keeps a cache prefix or a plain project root — equally ancestors of a working directory inside them — from overriding an installed package's own identity. The owner is the outermost node_modules boundary, so a transitively-installed runner and a pnpm isolated layout resolve the same way. With no manifest reachable, the framework's own identity is the fallback.

Read the full file on GitHub · 310 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. 16d ago Changed · +15 lines cb146af52ee7
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines 437f472735b4
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines ca8a851407a1
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 289 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 9b2ee869e324

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api-config is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/clipboard-mcp-server (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 7,236 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to api-config, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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