claude-code-mcp

A guide for configuring MCP servers, which connect Claude Code to outside tools, databases, APIs, and services through a shared interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage local, project, or user MCP settings, configure transport and credentials, import servers, and diagnose connection problems.
Why use it?
It explains how to install, authenticate, scope, and troubleshoot these connections without requiring you to build the servers themselves.

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/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins/claude-code-mcp
Any agent
npx skills add emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins --skill claude-code-mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,655 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 $0.00051 $0.03655
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01827
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00731
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00365

Measured 2d ago against content hash b52212af3c54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-code-mcp 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 2d 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.

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.

plugins/claude-code-meta/skills/claude-code-mcp/SKILL.md · 614 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 614 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code MCP Configuration

Guide Claude through configuring and managing MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to connect Claude Code with external tools, databases, and services.

Purpose

MCP servers enable Claude Code to interact with external tools and data sources through a standardized protocol. This skill helps install, configure, and manage MCP servers across different scopes (local, project, user), authenticate with remote services, and troubleshoot connection issues.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Installing MCP servers (HTTP, SSE, or stdio transport)
  • Configuring MCP server authentication and environment variables
  • Managing MCP server scopes (local, project, user)
  • Troubleshooting MCP server connectivity or authentication issues
  • Setting up team-wide MCP server configurations
  • Importing MCP servers from Claude Desktop
  • Using MCP resources and prompts in conversations

Do NOT use this skill for:

  • Creating or building MCP servers (use MCP SDK documentation instead)
  • Writing MCP server code (this skill is for configuration only)

MCP Server Transports

MCP servers can connect using three transport mechanisms:

HTTP Transport (Recommended)

Best for cloud-based services with REST APIs.

Basic syntax:

claude mcp add --transport http <name> <url>

Examples:

# Simple HTTP server
claude mcp add --transport http notion https://mcp.notion.com/mcp

# With authentication header
claude mcp add --transport http secure-api https://api.example.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer your-token"

# With custom headers
claude mcp add --transport http custom-api https://api.example.com/mcp \
  --header "X-API-Key: key123" \
  --header "X-Custom-Header: value"

SSE Transport (Deprecated)

Server-Sent Events transport. Use HTTP where available.

Basic syntax:

claude mcp add --transport sse <name> <url>

Example:

claude mcp add --transport sse asana https://mcp.asana.com/sse

Read the full file on GitHub · 614 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. 2d ago First seen · 614 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A b52212af3c54

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-code-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 3,655 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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