European-Parliament-MCP-Server: Skill for Claude Code

.github/skills/mcp-gateway-security/SKILL.md

mcp-gateway-security is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hack23/European-Parliament-MCP-Server. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,476 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A security guide for MCP gateways, which control requests between MCP clients and backend servers, especially for parliamentary data.

In plain words
What is it for?
It covers client authentication, request and argument validation, token and secret handling, audit logs, and protection for multi-server MCP deployments.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unauthorised access, unsafe requests, exposed credentials, and missing records of data access at the gateway boundary.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

This is Hack23/European-Parliament-MCP-Server's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on European-Parliament-MCP-Server itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything European-Parliament-MCP-Server configures →

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Nothing to install: this file belongs to Hack23/European-Parliament-MCP-Server. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hack23/European-Parliament-MCP-Server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,476 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00025 $0.01476
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00738
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00148

Measured 12d ago against content hash 23352b0ccf13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-gateway-security 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 12d 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.

.github/skills/mcp-gateway-security/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Gateway Security Skill

Context

This skill applies when:

  • Securing MCP gateway communications between clients and the EP MCP Server
  • Implementing token-based authentication for MCP client connections
  • Validating and sanitizing MCP requests at the gateway boundary
  • Configuring audit logging for all parliamentary data access through the gateway
  • Implementing defense-in-depth for multi-server MCP deployments
  • Managing secrets and credentials for EP API backend authentication
  • Protecting against common MCP protocol attack vectors

MCP gateways are a critical security boundary. All parliamentary data requests flow through the gateway, making it the primary enforcement point for authentication, authorization, input validation, and audit logging.

Rules

  1. Authenticate All MCP Clients: Require token-based authentication (API key, OAuth2, or mTLS) for every client connection to the gateway
  2. Validate Request Schemas: Validate all incoming MCP requests against the protocol schema before forwarding to backends
  3. Sanitize Tool Arguments: Apply input validation and sanitization to all tool arguments at the gateway level, before they reach the EP MCP Server
  4. Implement Audit Logging: Log every tool invocation with client identity, tool name, timestamp, and response status — never log argument values containing personal data
  5. Rotate Tokens Regularly: API keys and service tokens must have configurable expiration; implement automated rotation
  6. Enforce Transport Security: All MCP gateway connections must use TLS 1.3; reject plaintext connections
  7. Rate Limit per Client Identity: Enforce rate limits based on authenticated client identity, not just IP address
  8. Isolate Backend Credentials: Gateway-to-backend credentials must be stored in a secrets manager, never in configuration files
  9. Detect and Block Anomalies: Monitor for unusual request patterns (high volume, unusual tools, off-hours access) and alert or block
  10. Implement Request Signing: For high-security deployments, require request signing to ensure message integrity between client and gateway

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 12d ago First seen · 147 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 23352b0ccf13

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mcp-gateway-security is a skill published in the GitHub repository Hack23/European-Parliament-MCP-Server (28 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,476 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 2026-08-30.

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