core-mcp

core-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deepgram/wsh. It costs 76 tokens per session (4,126 once invoked), scanned A, original, ISC.

A reference for using wsh, a service that lets an agent control and observe terminal sessions through tools. It covers creating sessions, sending input or keys, and reading the screen.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting terminal sessions, entering commands, reading their output, and handling interactive command-line programs. It is required before using wsh terminal operations.
Why use it?
It prevents guessing how to connect to or control a terminal session. It also provides a required setup path when direct wsh tools are unavailable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the wsh plugin — 12 skills 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/deepgram/wsh/core-mcp
Any agent
npx skills add deepgram/wsh --skill core-mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deepgram/wsh

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install wsh, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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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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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,126 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00076 $0.04126
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.02063
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00825
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00413

Measured 4d ago against content hash c37f2b7d1e20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

core-mcp scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl examples and a bootstrap sequence.
skills/core-mcp/SKILL.md · 464 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 464 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

wsh: Terminal as a Service (MCP)

You have access to wsh via MCP tools that give you direct control over terminal sessions. You can see exactly what's on screen, send keystrokes, wait for commands to finish, and create visual elements — all through MCP tool calls.

Think of it this way: wsh gives you eyes (read the screen), hands (send input), patience (wait for output to settle), and a voice (overlays and panels to communicate with the human).

How It Works

wsh manages terminal sessions via a server daemon that listens on a Unix domain socket (by default at ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/wsh/default.http.sock). MCP tools connect to this socket automatically. The human sees their normal terminal. You interact through tool calls to the same session. Everything is synchronized — input you send appears on their screen, output they generate appears in your tool responses. All tools take a session parameter to specify which session to operate on (e.g., "default").

Getting Started

Step 1: Verify you have MCP tools. Check your toolkit for tools starting with wsh_ (e.g., wsh_send_input, wsh_get_screen, wsh_create_session). If you have them, proceed to step 2.

If you do NOT have wsh_* tools, the MCP bridge is not running. Do NOT try to start a server manually — that won't give you MCP tools. Instead, fall back to the HTTP API: search your workspace for skills/core/ and read SKILL.md. It has every endpoint with working curl examples and a bootstrap sequence.

Step 2: Create a session. Sessions are where commands run:

wsh_create_session(name="work")

Returns the session name and terminal dimensions on success.

Step 3: Use the send/wait/read loop. The primary tool:

wsh_send_and_read(session="work", keys=[{"text": "ls -la"}, {"key": "enter"}], format="plain")

This sends keystrokes, waits for idle, and returns the screen in one call. For more control, use wsh_send_input, wsh_await_idle, and wsh_get_screen separately.

Read the full file on GitHub · 464 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 · 464 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A c37f2b7d1e20

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core-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository deepgram/wsh (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed ISC. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 4,126 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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