design-mcp-server

design-mcp-server is a skill for Claude Code from cyanheads/crossref-mcp-server. It costs 62 tokens per session (15,665 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A design helper for planning a new MCP server or a major expansion to one. MCP is a standard way for an AI agent to use external tools and data; this helper designs the tools, data resources, and service layer, then writes a plan to docs/design.md.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting an MCP server, planning a major server feature, or deciding how to expose a domain or API to an agent.
Why use it?
It turns a domain or API idea into a written implementation plan before development begins. This helps clarify what the server should expose and how its parts should fit together.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it when starting an MCP server, planning a major server feature, or deciding how to expose a domain or API to an agent.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install crossref-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.

agentmods badge for design-mcp-server

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cyanheads/crossref-mcp-server/design-mcp-server"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cyanheads/crossref-mcp-server/design-mcp-server.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 15,665 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 $0.00062 $0.15665
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.07832
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.03133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.01566

Measured 8d ago against content hash 27b9a61334d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-mcp-server 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 8d 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.

skills/design-mcp-server/SKILL.md · 714 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. 8d ago First seen · 714 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 27b9a61334d6

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design-mcp-server is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/crossref-mcp-server (3 stars, last pushed 13d ago), with no licence file. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 15,665 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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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