Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to dawsonlp/BaseMcpServer. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dawsonlp/BaseMcpServer/main/.claude/skills/install-mcp-server/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dawsonlp/BaseMcpServerWrote 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.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dawsonlp/basemcpserver/install-mcp-server"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dawsonlp/basemcpserver/install-mcp-server.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00086 | $0.01065 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00034 | $0.00426 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00213 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00106 |
Grade C, and why
install-mcp-server scanned grade C with 2 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 2mo 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.
Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain
curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Install a BaseMcpServer MCP server
This skill installs one of the MCP servers in the dawsonlp/BaseMcpServer
monorepo into the user's mcp-manager registry and (optionally) wires it into
Claude Desktop / Cline. It works whether or not the repo is already cloned.
Server catalog
| Server | What it gives the agent | Needs config? |
|---|---|---|
loadbearing-youtube |
Extract a YouTube transcript and expose its load-bearing components (analyze_video, get_video_transcript, list_analysis_providers). |
No — defaults to local Ollama. Optional OpenAI/Anthropic keys. |
worldcontext |
Current date/time, market, news, dev-tool versions. | Optional API keys for market/news. |
jira-helper |
Jira + Confluence integration. | Yes — Jira URL + credentials. |
mcpservercreator |
Scaffold new MCP servers from a code snippet. | No. |
Fast path (recommended)
Run the bundled installer. It ensures uv + mcp-manager exist, locates the
server source (or shallow-clones the public repo), installs it, and syncs.
# from anywhere:
bash scripts/install_mcp_server.sh loadbearing-youtube
Useful flags:
--no-sync— register the server but don't touch editor settings yet.--force— reinstall an already-installed server.--source DIR— install from a specific local checkout.
Ask before syncing to editors.
mcp-manager syncedits the user's Claude Desktop / Cline settings files (persistent app configuration). If the user only asked to "install" the server, run with--no-syncfirst, then confirm before syncing.
Manual path (if you want to run the steps yourself)
# 1. One-time: uv + mcp-manager
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
uv tool install "git+https://github.com/dawsonlp/BaseMcpServer.git#subdirectory=utils/mcp_manager"
uv tool update-shell
# 2. Get the repo (skip if already cloned; then cd into it)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dawsonlp/BaseMcpServer.git
cd BaseMcpServer
# 3. Install the server (isolated uv env under ~/.config/mcp-manager/servers/<name>/)
mcp-manager install loadbearing-youtube --source ./servers/loadbearing-youtube
# 4. (If the server needs credentials) edit its config, then sync into editors
$EDITOR ~/.config/mcp-manager/servers/loadbearing-youtube/config.yaml # not needed for loadbearing-youtube
mcp-manager sync
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.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 102 lines · 86 tokens per session scan C a0974e0f2882
install-mcp-server is a skill published in the GitHub repository dawsonlp/BaseMcpServer (3 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,065 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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