setup

An interactive setup guide for configuring the Gerrit MCP server, which connects a coding agent to Gerrit code reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, validate, repair, or update `gerrit_config.json`, including Gerrit host URLs and authentication details.
Why use it?
It checks whether the server and configuration work before changing anything, and handles missing or invalid settings.

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/gerritcodereview/gerrit-mcp-server/setup
Any agent
npx skills add GerritCodeReview/gerrit-mcp-server --skill setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GerritCodeReview/gerrit-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 636 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 $0.00030 $0.00636
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00318
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00064

Measured 2d ago against content hash c03e4fdcc0a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup 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.

skills/setup/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Help the user create or update their Gerrit MCP Server configuration.

Build check

Before touching the config, verify the server environment and config state by running:

UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/.venv" uv run --directory "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}" gerrit-check-config

Interpret the result as follows:

  • uv run itself fails (uv not found, env broken, package not installed): offer to run ./build-gerrit.sh from the repo root. Do not proceed until it succeeds.
  • Exit 0: config is already valid — skip to the "config already exists" flow and ask what the user wants to change.
  • Exit 1 (config file missing): proceed directly into the "create new config" flow.
  • Exit 2 (config invalid — bad JSON or default_gerrit_base_url mismatch): show the error output, then offer to fix the existing file in place (preserving valid entries where possible) rather than starting from scratch.

Config file location

The config file is gerrit_mcp_server/gerrit_config.json relative to the repo root (see references/gerrit-config.md for the override env var). Check whether it already exists before proceeding.

What to do

If the config already exists, read it, show the current hosts, and ask the user what they want to change: add a host, modify a host, remove a host, or update the default URL. Apply the change and write the updated file.

If the config does not exist, guide the user through creating it:

  1. Ask for their primary Gerrit instance URL (or use $ARGUMENTS if a URL was provided).
  2. Ask which authentication method they use for that host — present the three options from references/gerrit-config.md (git_cookies, gob_curl, http_basic).
  3. Collect the additional fields required by the chosen method.
  4. Ask if they have more Gerrit hosts to add; repeat steps 2–3 for each.
  5. Set default_gerrit_base_url to the first host's URL.
  6. Write the complete JSON to gerrit_mcp_server/gerrit_config.json and confirm success.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 64 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A c03e4fdcc0a8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository GerritCodeReview/gerrit-mcp-server (20 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 636 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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