mcp-metadata-demo: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/mcp-compat-check/SKILL.md

mcp-compat-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DaveGold/mcp-metadata-demo. It costs 141 tokens per session (249 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for whether an MCP server's tool descriptions and instructions reach different AI clients correctly. MCP is a standard way for an AI application to connect to external tools and data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect an MCP server over HTTP or standard input/output, check authentication options, and produce a repeatable report or JSON result for automation.
Why use it?
Different clients may shorten or omit metadata, so a server can expose useful descriptions that the model never receives. This check compares the server's metadata with measured client limits without calling a model.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; reads ~/.codex paths.

This is DaveGold/mcp-metadata-demo's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on mcp-metadata-demo itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything mcp-metadata-demo configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to DaveGold/mcp-metadata-demo. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveGold/mcp-metadata-demo/main/.agents/skills/mcp-compat-check/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DaveGold/mcp-metadata-demo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 249 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 original 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 $0.00141 $0.00249
Opus 5.5 $0.00056 $0.00100
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00025

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 848c50dce4bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-compat-check 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (check.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.agents/skills/mcp-compat-check/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Read and follow the canonical project skill at .codex/skills/mcp-compat-check/SKILL.md. It is a byte-identical copy of .claude/skills/mcp-compat-check/; src/skill-copies.test.ts keeps the two in sync.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago Changed · -65 lines 848c50dce4bd
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 84 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A 3245f8f022a1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mcp-compat-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository DaveGold/mcp-metadata-demo (5 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 249 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-29.

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