add-service

add-service is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cyanheads/reference-data-mcp-server. It costs 38 tokens per session (3,357 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of add-service, Apache-2.0.

A code-generation guide for adding a new service integration to a server project. It describes the project’s pattern for initializing services once and accessing them when requests arrive.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when connecting an external API or other service, creating its types and methods, registering it in the server, and running the project’s checks.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork from deciding where service code belongs, how it receives request context, and how it becomes available throughout the application.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,357 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 $0.00038 $0.03357
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01679
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00671
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00336

Measured 4d ago against content hash d7bb570e0a0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-service 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 4d 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-service — 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-service/SKILL.md · 299 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 299 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context

Services use the init/accessor pattern: initialized once in createApp's setup() callback, then accessed at request time via a lazy getter. Each service lives in src/services/[domain]/ with an init function and accessor.

Service methods receive Context for correlated logging (ctx.log) and tenant-scoped storage (ctx.state). Convention: ctx.requestInput should only be called from tool, resource, and prompt handlers, not from services — a service can call it, but the never return means TypeScript cannot narrow across it at the handler's call site.

For the full service pattern, CoreServices, and Context interface, read the framework's CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md (loaded at session start).

Steps

  1. Gather the service domain name and what it integrates with from the user's request — ask only if genuinely absent
  2. Create the directory at src/services/{{domain}}/
  3. Create the service file at src/services/{{domain}}/{{domain}}-service.ts
  4. Create types at src/services/{{domain}}/types.ts if needed
  5. Register in setup() in the server's entry point (src/index.ts, or src/worker.ts for Worker-only servers)
  6. Run bun run devcheck to verify

Template

Service file

/**
 * @fileoverview {{SERVICE_DESCRIPTION}}
 * @module services/{{domain}}/{{domain}}-service
 */

import type { AppConfig } from '@cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/config';
import type { StorageService } from '@cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/storage';
import type { Context } from '@cyanheads/mcp-ts-core';

export class {{ServiceName}} {
  constructor(
    private readonly config: AppConfig,
    private readonly storage: StorageService,
  ) {}

  async doWork(input: string, ctx: Context): Promise<string> {
    ctx.log.debug('Processing', { input });
    // Domain logic here
    return `result: ${input}`;
  }
}

// --- Init/accessor pattern ---

let _service: {{ServiceName}} | undefined;

export function init{{ServiceName}}(config: AppConfig, storage: StorageService): void {
  _service = new {{ServiceName}}(config, storage);
}

export function get{{ServiceName}}(): {{ServiceName}} {
  if (!_service) {
    throw new Error('{{ServiceName}} not initialized — call init{{ServiceName}}() in setup()');
  }
  return _service;
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 299 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. 4d ago First seen · 299 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A d7bb570e0a0f

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add-service is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/reference-data-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 3,357 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-service, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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