dosbox-mcp: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/dosbox-mcp-usage/SKILL.md

dosbox-mcp-usage is a skill for Claude Code from dosbox-automation/dosbox-mcp. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,530 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to connecting and using dosbox-mcp, a bridge between coding agents and DOSBox automation. It covers installation, Claude Code configuration, authentication, mounting rules, and common problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure dosbox-mcp, connect to a dosbox-automation instance, and troubleshoot MCP or API issues.
Why use it?
It helps avoid connection and API mistakes when setting up DOSBox automation, including incorrect tokens or unsafe mount settings.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is dosbox-automation/dosbox-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on dosbox-mcp 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 dosbox-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to dosbox-automation/dosbox-mcp. 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/dosbox-automation/dosbox-mcp/main/.claude/skills/dosbox-mcp-usage/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dosbox-automation/dosbox-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,530 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00053 $0.02530
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01265
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00506
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00253

Measured 9d ago against content hash fb25126c647a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dosbox-mcp-usage 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 9d 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 -H "Authorization: Bearer $DOSBOX_API_TOKEN" http://localhost:8386/api/v1/status
.claude/skills/dosbox-mcp-usage/SKILL.md · 353 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 9d ago First seen · 353 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A fb25126c647a

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dosbox-mcp-usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository dosbox-automation/dosbox-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 19d ago), with no licence file. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,530 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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