add-prompt

add-prompt is a skill for Claude Code from cyanheads/congressgov-mcp-server. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,582 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of add-prompt, Apache-2.0.

A skill for creating reusable MCP prompt templates. A prompt template is a named message structure that an AI application can fill with arguments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding a prompt to an MCP server. It creates the prompt definition, registers it with the application, and runs the project's development check.
Why use it?
It gives developers a defined file location, registration pattern, and verification command, reducing the chance that a new prompt is left unregistered or inconsistent with the project.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it when adding a prompt to an MCP server. It creates the prompt definition, registers it with the application, and runs the project's development check.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install congressgov-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 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,582 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 $0.00037 $0.01582
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00633
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00158

Measured 28d ago against content hash aee181ba52ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-prompt 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 28d 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 add-prompt — 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.

framework-skills/add-prompt/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context

Prompts use the prompt() builder from @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core. Each prompt lives in src/mcp-server/prompts/definitions/ with a .prompt.ts suffix. The standard registration pattern uses a definitions/index.ts barrel that collects all prompts into an allPromptDefinitions array for createApp(). Fresh scaffolds start with direct imports in src/index.ts — the barrel is introduced as definitions grow. Match the pattern already used by the project you're editing.

Prompts are pure message templates — no Context, no auth, no side effects. generate can be sync or async (returns PromptMessage[] | Promise<PromptMessage[]>).

Steps

  1. Gather the prompt's name, purpose, and arguments from the user's request — ask only if genuinely absent
  2. Create the file at src/mcp-server/prompts/definitions/{{prompt-name}}.prompt.ts
  3. Register the prompt in the project's existing createApp() prompt list (directly in src/index.ts for fresh scaffolds, or via a barrel if the repo already has one)
  4. Run bun run devcheck to verify
  5. Smoke-test with bun run rebuild && bun run start:stdio < /dev/null — the Core services constructed log record must list the new prompt in its prompts field (the message text shows only counts); if it doesn't, the prompt never reached createApp()

Template

/**
 * @fileoverview {{PROMPT_DESCRIPTION}}
 * @module mcp-server/prompts/definitions/{{PROMPT_NAME}}
 */

import { completable, prompt, z } from '@cyanheads/mcp-ts-core';

export const {{PROMPT_EXPORT}} = prompt('{{prompt_name}}', {
  description: '{{PROMPT_DESCRIPTION}}',
  // title is optional — human-readable display name surfaced in prompts/list.
  // title: '{{PROMPT_DISPLAY_TITLE}}',
  // args is optional — omit entirely for prompts with no parameters.
  // When present, all fields need .describe(). Only JSON-Schema-serializable types allowed.
  // Wrap any field with completable() to enable argument autocompletion.
  args: z.object({
    // All fields need .describe()
    // language: completable(z.string().describe('Language'), async (partial) => matchingLanguages(partial)),
  }),
  generate: (args) => [
    {
      role: 'user',
      content: {
        type: 'text',
        text: `{{PROMPT_TEMPLATE_TEXT}}`,
      },
    },
  ],
});

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. 28d ago Changed · +6 lines aee181ba52ed
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 138 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 270d4e2e57c9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

add-prompt is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/congressgov-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,582 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to add-prompt, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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