mcp-management

mcp-management is a skill for Claude Code from laurigates/claude-plugins. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,047 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A guide for managing MCP servers, which connect an AI coding tool to external tools and data. It covers project configuration, local and remote servers, OAuth sign-in, runtime control, discovery, and connection troubleshooting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up a project's .mcp.json file, enabling or disabling servers, configuring OAuth-based remote servers, troubleshooting connections, or checking dynamic tool discovery.
Why use it?
MCP setup can fail because of incorrect configuration, authentication, stale code, or connection issues. This guide helps developers diagnose and manage those problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the agent-patterns-plugin plugin — 22 skills 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/laurigates/claude-plugins/mcp-management
Any agent
npx skills add laurigates/claude-plugins --skill mcp-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laurigates/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-patterns-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for mcp-management

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 2,047 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 5.1 $0.00040 $0.02047
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01024
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00409
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00205

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5066f788ffc6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

mcp-management scanned grade B 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 6d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- **User-scoped** (personal) — `~/.claude/settings.json` for servers available everywhere.
agent-patterns-plugin/skills/mcp-management/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Server Management

Expert knowledge for managing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on a project-by-project basis, with support for runtime management, OAuth remote servers, and dynamic server discovery.

For server config examples, the OAuth deep-dive, dynamic-discovery detail, troubleshooting scripts, and full configuration-pattern examples, see REFERENCE.md.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when... Use configure-mcp instead when...
Understanding MCP architecture and concepts Setting up .mcp.json for a new project
Managing servers at runtime (enable/disable) Installing new servers interactively
Setting up OAuth remote MCP servers Running compliance checks on MCP configuration
Troubleshooting connection failures Adding specific servers from the registry
Implementing list_changed dynamic discovery Generating project standards reports

MCP Architecture Overview

MCP connects Claude Code to external tools and data sources via two transport types:

Transport Usage Auth Configuration
Stdio (local) Command-based servers via npx, bunx, uvx, go run None needed .mcp.json
HTTP+SSE (remote) URL-based servers hosted externally OAuth 2.1 .mcp.json with url field

Local servers declare a command + args; remote servers declare a url + headers (with ${VAR_NAME} token references, never hardcoded). See REFERENCE.md → Server configuration examples.

Runtime Server Management

/mcp Commands (Claude Code 2.1.50+)

Manage servers without editing configuration files:

Command Description
/mcp List all configured MCP servers and their connection status
/mcp enable <server> Enable a server for the current session
/mcp disable <server> Disable a server for the current session (session-scoped only)

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 6d ago First seen · 177 lines · 40 tokens per session scan B 5066f788ffc6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mcp-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository laurigates/claude-plugins (58 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,047 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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