What is kimss-mcp-setup?

Instructions for setting up the Kimss Model Context Protocol server in Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop, or another compatible client. Kimss is accessed through an API key and provides seven version-one tools.

Adding Kimss to an MCP client, configuring its API key and base URL, optionally selecting a workspace, and troubleshooting startup or missing-tool problems.

It explains the required package, configuration fields, secret handling, optional workspace setting, and restart steps needed for the client to recognize Kimss.

kimss-mcp-setup — Skill for Cursor by kimss-ai/kimss-python-sdk

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent

npx skills add kimss-ai/kimss-python-sdk --skill kimss-mcp-setup

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kimss-ai/kimss-python-sdk

Made for: Cursor.

Or install kimss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 commands, 1 MCP server.

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README.md

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 860 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00040	$0.00860
Opus 5.5	$0.00016	$0.00344
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00172
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00086

Measured 2mo ago against content hash be9873fbddfe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kimss-mcp-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 2mo 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/kimss-mcp-setup/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kimss MCP setup

When to use

User asks how to wire Kimss into Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop, or another MCP client.
Debugging MCP startup (missing API key, wrong base URL, tools not listed).

Requirements

uv / uvx or pip install 'kimss[mcp]' so kimss-mcp-server is available.
Long-lived Kimss API key from the app: Developer Settings → API Keys (never commit it).

Cursor / generic `mcp.json`

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kimss": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "kimss[mcp]", "kimss-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "KIMSS_API_KEY": "your_key_here",
        "KIMSS_BASE_URL": "https://api.kimss.ai"
      }
    }
  }
}

Set KIMSS_API_KEY in the IDE environment or user secrets — not in the repo.
Optional: KIMSS_WORKSPACE_ID for workspace-scoped calls.
Prefer uvx --from kimss[mcp] kimss-mcp-server (not --with).

Claude Desktop (`claude_desktop_config.json`)

Settings → Developer → Edit Config (opens the correct file for the install).
Merge the same kimss mcpServers block as above.
Fully quit and relaunch Claude Desktop; confirm tools appear in the MCP/hammer UI.

Typical paths (prefer Edit Config over guessing):

OS	Path
macOS	`~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`
Windows (classic)	`%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json`
Linux	`~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`

Installed package alternative

After pip install 'kimss[mcp]':

"command": "kimss-mcp-server",
"args": [],
"env": { "KIMSS_API_KEY": "...", "KIMSS_BASE_URL": "https://api.kimss.ai" }

MCP tools (v1, non-streaming)

Tool	Backend (summary)
`kimss_chat`	`POST /v1/agents/run`
`kimss_run_agent`	`POST /v1/agents/run`
`kimss_create_agent`	`POST /v1/agents/create` (management-scoped key)
`kimss_complete`	`POST /v1/models/completions`
`kimss_upload_file`	`POST /v1/files/upload`
`kimss_add_function_to_agent`	`POST /agent_add_function/`

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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.

2mo ago First seen · 87 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A be9873fbddfe

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kimss-mcp-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository kimss-ai/kimss-python-sdk (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 860 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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