helix.mcp: Skill for Claude Code

.squad/skills/mcp-param-rename/SKILL.md

mcp-param-rename is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lewing/helix.mcp. It costs 20 tokens per session (267 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for renaming parameters exposed in an MCP tool’s JSON schema when their names no longer match their meaning. A JSON schema describes the inputs an AI client may send.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a canonical name, update related tools and guidance, decide whether compatibility aliases are needed, and test the new wire format.
Why use it?
It prevents confusion and schema drift, and makes unsupported old names fail clearly instead of producing empty or incorrect values.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

This is lewing/helix.mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on helix.mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything helix.mcp configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to lewing/helix.mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lewing/helix.mcp/main/.squad/skills/mcp-param-rename/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lewing/helix.mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 267 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00020 $0.00267
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00133
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00027

Measured 10d ago against content hash 372b217f8b16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-param-rename 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 10d 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.

.squad/skills/mcp-param-rename/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Context

Use this when an MCP tool parameter name is part of the caller-visible JSON schema and no longer matches the semantic contract.

Patterns

  • Audit all MCP tools with the same semantic input, not just the initially reported tool.
  • Prefer one canonical parameter name across the tool family; for AzDO build identifiers that accept either numeric IDs or full URLs, use buildIdOrUrl.
  • Make an explicit wire-compat decision: hard rename for clean schema alignment, or alias only when known consumers require old names.
  • Update generated/help guidance and tests that show MCP call shapes.
  • Manually verify tools/list exposes the new parameter, a call with the new parameter succeeds, and the old parameter fails with an explicit isError response rather than silent null.

Anti-Patterns

  • Renaming only local variables while leaving the MCP method parameter unchanged.
  • Adding aliases by default; aliases preserve drift unless there is a known compatibility need.
  • Mixing CLI argument names with MCP schema names. CLI positional arguments can keep short names while MCP JSON parameters use the canonical wire name.
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. 10d ago First seen · 23 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 372b217f8b16

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mcp-param-rename is a skill published in the GitHub repository lewing/helix.mcp (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 267 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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