iwac-mcp

iwac-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fmadore/iwac-mcp-server. It costs 158 tokens per session (7,809 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured research workflow for the Islam West Africa Collection, an archive of material about Islam and Muslims in West Africa. It guides searches through the collection's IWAC MCP server and its archival data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for academic research questions about Islam and Muslim communities in West Africa, including systematic searches across the collection.
Why use it?
It gives researchers a repeatable way to search, filter, paginate, and interpret results from a specialized archive.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it for academic research questions about Islam and Muslim communities in West Africa, including systematic searches across the collection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fmadore/iwac-mcp-server/iwac-mcp
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.

Any agent
npx skills add fmadore/iwac-mcp-server --skill iwac-mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fmadore/iwac-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 158 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,809 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00158 $0.07809
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.03904
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.01562
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00781

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2305ef0d3657, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iwac-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 6d 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.

.agents/skills/iwac-mcp/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IWAC MCP Research Workflow

Structured methodology for academic research using the IWAC MCP server's 37 possible tools (34 core + 3 optional semantic). Adapted from ALA-compliant archival research practices. Applies to server v0.9.0+ — all matching is accent- and case-insensitive; result objects use short English keys (id, date, polarity, centrality, subjectivity, description_ai, url); list/search tools return a pagination envelope (count, total_matches, offset, limit, has_more, next_offset); and enumerated filters are validated (see Reading Results & Errors below). The essentials of this guidance are mirrored in the server's MCP instructions string (mcpb/src/index.ts) for skill-less clients — when updating one, update the other.

Prerequisites

Load reference files as needed, not all upfront:

  1. references/tools-by-phase.md — all 37 possible tools with parameters, defaults, and verified filter vocabularies. Read before the first search of a session.
  2. references/research-domains.md — French search terms and transliteration variants by domain. Read when crafting search-term variants (Extended mode, or when a Brief search comes back thin).
  3. references/biases-and-limitations.md — collection biases, coverage gaps, sentiment caveats. Read before writing the synthesis.
  4. references/capabilities-overview.md — plain-language description of the collection and recommended ways into the data. Read when the user asks what you can do (see "Capability Questions" below).

For data schema and Omeka S API details, defer to the iwac-data skill.

Capability Questions

When the user asks what you can do with IWAC ("what can you do?", "qu'est-ce que tu peux faire ?", "what's in this collection?", "how could I search this?"), do not launch the research workflow, present the depth choice, or enumerate the 37 tools. Read references/capabilities-overview.md and answer in plain language, in the user's language:

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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.

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. 6d ago Changed 2305ef0d3657
  2. 10d ago First seen · 251 lines · 158 tokens per session scan A 571dae99cfe5

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iwac-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository fmadore/iwac-mcp-server (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 158 tokens to every session and 7,809 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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