usage

A usage guide for a project that provides command-line, HTTP API, and Model Context Protocol interfaces. It lists installation, commands, server endpoints, and connection examples.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install the tool, run CLI commands, start its server, access API documentation, or connect an MCP client.
Why use it?
It helps users choose the right interface and avoid guessing how to start or connect to the project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/edison-watch/custom-mcps/usage
Any agent
npx skills add Edison-Watch/Custom-MCPs --skill usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Edison-Watch/Custom-MCPs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 492 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00027 $0.00492
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00246
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00049

Measured yesterday against content hash 4b9ebd75a085, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

usage 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/usage/SKILL.md · 84 lines

What it actually says

Usage Guide

This skill teaches you how to use the three interfaces provided by this project.

CLI

# Install
pip install custom-mcps

# Basic usage
edisonmcps --help                  # see all commands
edisonmcps greet Alice             # run a command
edisonmcps config show             # view configuration
edisonmcps doctor                  # check system health

# Global flags (go before the subcommand)
edisonmcps --verbose greet Alice   # detailed output
edisonmcps --format json config show  # JSON output
edisonmcps --dry-run greet Bob     # preview without executing
edisonmcps --version               # print version

Server (HTTP API + MCP)

# Start the server: HTTP API and MCP (streamable HTTP) on one port.
edisonmcps-serve

# Default http://localhost:8080. See /docs for OpenAPI, /mcp for MCP.

MCP

The MCP server exposes the same services as CLI tools via the Model Context Protocol.

Primary transport: streamable HTTP at /mcp (started by edisonmcps-serve). Stdio is supported via edisonmcps-mcp for local Claude Desktop / dev only.

# Legacy stdio transport
edisonmcps-mcp

# Debug with the MCP inspector (stdio)
mcp dev mcp_server/server.py

Connecting MCP to your editor

Remote (preferred - works on Claude Desktop 0.7+, Cursor, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "edisonmcps": {
      "url": "https://YOUR-DEPLOYMENT/mcp",
      "headers": { "X-API-KEY": "sk_..." }
    }
  }
}

Local stdio (legacy):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "edisonmcps": {
      "command": "edisonmcps-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Updating

edisonmcps update    # check for updates and upgrade
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. yesterday First seen · 84 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 4b9ebd75a085

Subscribe to this mod's changes

usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository Edison-Watch/Custom-MCPs (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 492 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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