converting-mcps-to-skills

converting-mcps-to-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from letta-ai/letta-code. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,903 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

Instructions for connecting an AI agent to MCP servers. MCP, or Model Context Protocol, is a standard way for servers to provide tools to AI agents over a web address or a local process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to connect to HTTP or local-process MCP servers and turn their repeated tool use into reusable skills.
Why use it?
They explain how to identify the server connection type, test the connection, and inspect the tools it provides.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use them to connect to HTTP or local-process MCP servers and turn their repeated tool use into reusable skills.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/letta-ai/letta-code/converting-mcps-to-skills
About the project

letta-ai/letta-code is an agent harness for building assistants that retain memory, identity, and experience across interactions instead of treating each task as isolated. Developers use it through local, desktop, browser, or messaging interfaces for interactive or continuously running agents, and its catalogue entries configure the agents' skills, instructions, rules, and behavior.

letta-ai/letta-code · 3,262 stars · on GitHub · letta.com

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 letta-ai/letta-code --skill converting-mcps-to-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/letta-ai/letta-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,903 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 20 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 126
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 3
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 28
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 31
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 37
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 40
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 41
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 82
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 107
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 108
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 139
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 156
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 159
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 162
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 40
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 156
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 171
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 172
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 173
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 185
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
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 $0.00058 $0.01903
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00951
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00381
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00190

Measured 11d ago against content hash 16702bcecb40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

converting-mcps-to-skills 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/mcp-http.ts, scripts/mcp-stdio.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

- For OAuth-protected HTTP servers, just run any command (or `login`) — the helper
src/skills/builtin/converting-mcps-to-skills/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Converting MCP Servers to Skills

Letta Code is not itself an MCP client, but as a general computer-use agent, you can easily connect to any MCP server using the scripts in this skill.

What is MCP?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard for exposing tools to AI agents. MCP servers provide tools via JSON-RPC, either over:

  • HTTP - Server running at a URL (e.g., http://localhost:3001/mcp)
  • stdio - Server runs as a subprocess, communicating via stdin/stdout

Quick Start: Connecting to an MCP Server

Step 1: Determine the transport type

Ask the user:

  • Is it an HTTP server (has a URL)?
  • Is it a stdio server (runs via command like npx, node, python)?

Step 2: Test the connection

For HTTP servers:

npx tsx <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/mcp-http.ts <url> list-tools

# With auth header
npx tsx <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/mcp-http.ts <url> --header "Authorization: Bearer KEY" list-tools

Where <SKILL_DIR> is the Skill Directory shown when the skill was loaded (visible in the injection header).

For stdio servers:

npx tsx <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/mcp-stdio.ts "<command>" list-tools

# Examples
npx tsx <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/mcp-stdio.ts "npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem ." list-tools
npx tsx <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/mcp-stdio.ts "python server.py" list-tools

Step 3: Explore available tools

# List all tools
... list-tools

# Get schema for a specific tool
... info <tool-name>

# Test calling a tool
... call <tool-name> '{"arg": "value"}'

Creating a Dedicated Skill

When an MCP server will be used repeatedly, create a dedicated skill for it. This makes future use easier and documents the server's capabilities.

Decision: Simple vs Rich Skill

Simple skill (just SKILL.md):

  • Good for straightforward servers
  • Documents how to use the parent skill's scripts with this specific server
  • No additional scripts needed

Rich skill (SKILL.md + scripts/):

  • Good for frequently-used servers
  • Includes convenience wrapper scripts with defaults baked in
  • Provides a simpler interface than the generic scripts

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 11d ago First seen · 203 lines · 58 tokens per session scan B 16702bcecb40

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converting-mcps-to-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository letta-ai/letta-code (3,262 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,903 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.