add-prompt

add-prompt is a skill for Claude Code from cyanheads/reference-data-mcp-server. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,357 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of add-prompt, Apache-2.0.

A guide for creating reusable message templates for AI interactions. These MCP prompts are predefined message patterns with optional arguments, rather than executable actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add a prompt that turns a purpose and its arguments into messages for an AI model, then register it with the server and run the project checks.
Why use it?
It gives prompts a predictable location, file naming pattern, registration method, and verification step so they remain easy to maintain.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyanheads/reference-data-mcp-server/add-prompt
Any agent
npx skills add cyanheads/reference-data-mcp-server --skill add-prompt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/reference-data-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install reference-data-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 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,357 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.01357
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00678
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00136

Measured 5d ago against content hash 270d4e2e57c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 5d 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.

skills/add-prompt/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 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

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 · 138 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. 5d ago First seen · 138 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 270d4e2e57c9

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add-prompt is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/reference-data-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,357 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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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