staircase-setup

staircase-setup is a skill for Claude Code from gs-bbluhm/gainsight-mcp-plugins. It costs 108 tokens per session (1,625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A first-run guide for connecting Staircase and setting up its understanding of your role and accounts. Staircase is a customer-success data service that stores account and communication information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to connect the Staircase service, confirm how your accounts and role appear, and learn the basic workflow before using other skills.
Why use it?
It removes uncertainty when using the other Staircase workflows for the first time. It checks the connection, resolves unclear account ownership, and provides a short practice run.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the staircase plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to connect the Staircase service, confirm how your accounts and role appear, and learn the basic workflow before using other skills.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gs-bbluhm/gainsight-mcp-plugins/staircase-setup
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 gs-bbluhm/gainsight-mcp-plugins --skill staircase-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gs-bbluhm/gainsight-mcp-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install staircase, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,625 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 $0.00108 $0.01625
Opus 5.5 $0.00043 $0.00650
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00162

Measured 25d ago against content hash 00d456031216, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

staircase-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 25d 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/staircase/skills/staircase-setup/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Staircase Setup

What this skill is for

Every Staircase skill already resolves scope on its first call (the first-call contract in ../staircase-mcp-expert/SKILL.md, step 0). This skill runs that same contract as a friendly first-run experience: it shows the user how they appear in Staircase, confirms anything ambiguous, and lets them feel the payoff with one or two real results. Nothing here is required; a user can skip straight to any workflow skill.

Rhythm: one question per step, clear options, no walls of text.

The flow

Step 1: Connect

Call staircase_report_metadata.

  • It works: note current_user_id, the role fields (every customer.* field whose referencedEntity is user), and the lifecycle_event.type options. Move on.
  • No Staircase tools, or an auth error: stop and explain how to connect. In Claude (web, desktop, Cowork), add Staircase AI as a connector in claude.ai connector settings. In Claude Code, run claude mcp add --transport http staircase-ai https://mcp.staircase.ai/mcp, then authenticate. Offer to continue once it's connected.

Step 2: Show them how they appear in Staircase

Run the scope.membership recipe (../staircase-mcp-expert/references/report-recipes.md) for current_user_id. Show a small table: name, title, manager, and the account count under each role field that isn't zero.

Then decide scope:

What membership shows What to do
One role field with accounts That's their book. Say so in one line: "You're the on N active accounts; I'll use those as your accounts."
Two or more role fields with accounts Ask one question: "You show up as on N accounts and on M. Which should 'my accounts' mean?" Offer both plus "both."
No role fields, and people who report to them hold books Team scope. "You don't carry a book, but N people on your team do. I'll default to your team's accounts."
No role fields, and no reports who hold books Portfolio scope. "You don't carry a book, so I'll default to the whole portfolio."

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 25d ago First seen · 96 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 00d456031216

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staircase-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository gs-bbluhm/gainsight-mcp-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 1,625 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-26.

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