mcp-servers

A setup and maintenance guide for Model Context Protocol servers that connect an agent to Google Cloud. MCP is a standard way for an agent to call external tools, while Google Cloud is Google's platform for hosting applications and data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Installing and configuring Google Cloud MCP servers, signing in with Google Cloud credentials, and using gcloud commands when an MCP server is unavailable.
Why use it?
It explains authentication, available server capabilities, troubleshooting, version tracking, and command-line alternatives in one place.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the googlecloud-plugin plugin — 17 skills, 2 MCP servers shipped together

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/jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin/mcp-servers
Any agent
npx skills add jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin --skill mcp-servers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install googlecloud-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 2 MCP servers.

Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,446 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 $0.00088 $0.01446
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00723
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00145

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4bf8c82c5140, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-servers 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 3d 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/mcp-servers/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Servers — Google Cloud

Configure and maintain Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for Google Cloud. All auth flows through ADC or explicit SA key path — no credential values stored anywhere.

Auth Architecture

All GCP MCP servers authenticate via Application Default Credentials (ADC):

# Authenticate locally (developer machine)
gcloud auth application-default login

# Authenticate for a service account (CI/CD or production agent)
gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=/path/to/sa-key.json
gcloud auth application-default login [email protected]

What the plugin ships vs what you opt into

The portable mcp.json (Agent Plugins 1.0.0) declares one server — gcloud — because that is the only one that starts with no user-supplied configuration:

{
  "$schema": "https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/mcp.schema.json",
  "mcpServers": {
    "gcloud": { "type": "stdio", "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@google-cloud/gcloud-mcp"] }
  }
}

Two consequences worth knowing:

  • No env block. Agent Plugins expands only ${PLUGIN_ROOT} and ${PLUGIN_DATA}. A ${GCP_PROJECT_ID} placeholder would be passed through literally and mis-set your project. Export it in your own shell instead — the client passes the ambient environment through:
    export CLOUDSDK_CORE_PROJECT=your-project-id
    gcloud auth application-default login
    
  • The capability table below lists logical GCP capabilities, not entries in mcp.json. Most are reachable through the gcloud server; anything needing its own config file is an opt-in you add to your client's own MCP settings.

Google-Managed MCP Servers (v0.1)

Server Capability Required Role
google-cloud-run Deploy/manage Cloud Run services roles/run.admin
google-bigquery Query/manage BigQuery datasets roles/bigquery.user
google-gke GKE cluster management roles/container.developer
google-storage Cloud Storage bucket ops roles/storage.objectAdmin
google-vertex-ai Vertex AI model/endpoint management roles/aiplatform.user
google-iam IAM policy management roles/iam.securityAdmin
google-logging Cloud Logging query/ingest roles/logging.viewer
google-monitoring Metrics, alerting roles/monitoring.viewer

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 3d ago First seen · 124 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 4bf8c82c5140

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mcp-servers is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,446 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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