MCP Server Setup

MCP Server Setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lukacf/meerkat. It costs 18 tokens per session (626 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Instructions for configuring MCP servers in Meerkat, including local programs and network services that provide tools to an agent. MCP is a standard way for an agent to discover and call external tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add, inspect, log in to, remove, or reload MCP servers, and to understand project-level versus user-level configuration.
Why use it?
It explains where server settings belong, which connection type to choose, how authentication works, and when changes become active. This avoids configuration mistakes and accidental exposure of access tokens.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to add, inspect, log in to, remove, or reload MCP servers, and to understand project-level versus user-level configuration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lukacf/meerkat/mcp-server-setup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add lukacf/meerkat --skill mcp-server-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lukacf/meerkat

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 626 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 34
    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]
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 $0.00018 $0.00626
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00250
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00063

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8b7964489970, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

MCP Server 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 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.

crates/meerkat-mcp/skills/mcp-server-setup/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Server Setup

Use MCP when an external server should provide tools to Meerkat. MCP server configuration controls tool discovery and transport; it does not move semantic ownership away from the server or Meerkat runtime.

Operating Rules

  • Use rkat mcp add to register servers in project or user config. Project is the default scope; --scope local is an alias for project.
  • Use stdio for local command-backed servers, streamable HTTP for modern network servers, and SSE only for legacy servers that require it.
  • Use rkat mcp list and rkat mcp get to inspect configured servers.
  • Use rkat mcp login <name> for OAuth-protected HTTP servers. Do not paste bearer tokens into prompts or command arguments.
  • Login needs an account selection, written by rkat mcp add: --oauth-account-selection discover (bind the account the provider verifies at the first login), --oauth-account <SUBJECT_ID> (a known provider subject ID, not an email) or --oauth-account-selection unverified (resource-bound access with no account evidence). Never pick unverified for the user: it is their explicit choice, for example after discover is refused because the server publishes no account evidence.
  • Project configuration wins when the same server name exists in both scopes. Specify --scope when removing an ambiguous name.
  • Start or resume a session to load configured MCP tools into the agent.
  • For live session mutation, use JSON-RPC mcp/add, mcp/remove, and mcp/reload, or the REST /sessions/{id}/mcp/* routes. Mutations are staged and take effect at a turn boundary; editing config does not mutate an active session mid-turn.
  • Keep durable work state in WorkGraph and time-based wakeups in Schedule. MCP tools are actuators or external integrations.

Examples

rkat mcp add files -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem .
rkat mcp add issue-api --url https://mcp.example.com --oauth-account-selection discover
rkat mcp login issue-api
rkat mcp list

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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.

  1. 10d ago Changed · +7 lines 8b7964489970
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 19de03d8606a

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MCP Server Setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository lukacf/meerkat (23 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 626 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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