security-mcp-scanners

security-mcp-scanners is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from makifbaysal/tasktrooper. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,602 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to using connected security scanning services through MCP, a tool interface that lets an agent call external programs. It explains what Semgrep, OSV-Scanner, GitHub Security, and Snyk scan, what information may leave the machine, and how to assess their results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when these scanning services are available during a review, to check code and dependencies and record whether each scan ran successfully.
Why use it?
It prevents scan results from being treated as proof without checking for false positives, and makes failed or unavailable scans visible instead of calling them clean.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when these scanning services are available during a review, to check code and dependencies and record whether each scan ran successfully.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/makifbaysal/tasktrooper/security-mcp-scanners
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 makifbaysal/tasktrooper --skill security-mcp-scanners
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/makifbaysal/tasktrooper

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,602 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 $0.00053 $0.01602
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00641
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00160

Measured 4d ago against content hash 126dffe6d627, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-mcp-scanners 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 4d 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.

catalog/agents/security-agent/skills/security-mcp-scanners/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security MCP Scanners

Overview

Four security MCP servers can be connected for you: semgrep, osv-scanner, github-security and snyk. They ship disabled; the user turns them on in Settings → MCP servers. Your policy allows these four and no other server — a reviewer never holds the mutating MCP tools (Unity, Blender, Jupyter …) that other agents may use.

Core principle: an MCP scanner is a scanner. Its output is a list of candidates for the false-positive gate, never the verdict — and a scanner that failed is never a clean result.

1. Is It Connected?

  • Availability is decided by your tool list, nothing else: tools from the semgrep server (named mcp__semgrep__… in CLI runtimes), osv-scanner, github-security, snyk. Not in the list → the server is not enabled; do not try to call it, do not ask for it, fall back to installed CLIs (read-only-security-scanners) and to reading.
  • A listed tool that errors, times out, fails authentication or returns a parse error → a coverage limit for your summary line ("osv-scanner MCP: auth failed — lockfile not scanned"). Never treat it as "no findings".
  • Order: get_pipeline_status first (CI may already have scanned this commit), then github-security (alerts GitHub already computed), then local scans (semgrep, osv-scanner), then snyk only when it adds coverage the others do not.

2. semgrep — local SAST

The official semgrep mcp server, started with metrics off. Code is scanned on this machine.

  • Scan the changed files, not the repository.
  • Pass rule packs explicitly: p/default, p/owasp-top-ten, p/secrets, plus the language pack for the stack (p/golang, p/java, p/python, p/typescript …). Never auto — it requires metrics and sends project information.
  • The custom-rule tool is useful for a hypothesis: write a narrow rule that finds every call of the sink you suspect, or every sibling handler without the auth middleware. That is reading, and often faster than grep across languages.
  • With a platform token configured, its findings tools show existing Semgrep platform results — read them like CI output.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 4d ago First seen · 84 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 126dffe6d627

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security-mcp-scanners is a skill published in the GitHub repository makifbaysal/tasktrooper (113 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,602 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 2026-10-09.