mcp-setup

mcp-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills. It costs 413 tokens per session (3,752 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for using the Model Context Protocol, an open standard that lets AI agents connect to tools, data sources, and services through a shared interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or connecting reusable MCP servers and clients for databases, APIs, file systems, or other agent tools.
Why use it?
It avoids writing a separate integration for every agent and external tool.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when building or connecting reusable MCP servers and clients for databases, APIs, file systems, or other agent tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills/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 hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills --skill mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 413 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,752 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00413 $0.03752
Opus 5 $0.00206 $0.01876
Sonnet 5 $0.00083 $0.00750
Haiku 4.5 $0.00041 $0.00375

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3ed50f2d2476, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-setup scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

result = subprocess.run(
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • mcp-setup — 100% identical, 32 lines differ
skills/mcp/SKILL.md · 428 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 428 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Pattern

Overview

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) Pattern provides a standardized, open protocol for connecting LLM-based agents to external tools, data sources, and capabilities. MCP establishes a universal interface — like USB for AI tools — so any MCP-compatible agent can use any MCP-compatible tool server without custom integration code.

Core Principle: Standardize the contract between agents and tools — one protocol to connect everything.

When This Skill Applies

Activate this pattern when:

  • You need plug-and-play tool integration across multiple agent frameworks
  • Tools should be reusable across different LLM providers and agent systems
  • External services (databases, APIs, file systems) must be exposed as agent tools
  • A team maintains shared tool servers used by multiple agents
  • You want to decouple tool development from agent development
  • Cross-organization tool sharing and interoperability is required

Rule of thumb: Use MCP when tool reusability and interoperability matter more than tight integration — build the tool once, use it everywhere.

MCP Architecture

Client-Server Model

┌─────────────────┐    JSON-RPC 2.0    ┌─────────────────┐
│   MCP Client    │ ◄─────────────────► │   MCP Server    │
│  (LLM Agent)   │    (stdio / HTTP)   │  (Tool Provider)│
└─────────────────┘                    └─────────────────┘
  • MCP Client: The agent (LLM host) that consumes tools and resources
  • MCP Server: Exposes tools, resources, and prompts via the MCP protocol
  • Transport: Communication via stdio (local) or HTTP/SSE (remote)
  • Protocol: JSON-RPC 2.0 for all message exchanges

Four MCP Primitives

Primitive Description Use Case
Tools Executable functions the LLM can call Web search, code execution, API calls
Resources Data the LLM can read (like files/DB) Documents, database records, config files
Prompts Reusable prompt templates with parameters Standardized task instructions
Sampling Server requests LLM completions Server-side agentic reasoning

Read the full file on GitHub · 428 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. 9d ago First seen · 428 lines · 413 tokens per session scan A 3ed50f2d2476

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mcp-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 413 tokens to every session and 3,752 once invoked, about $0.0021 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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