techpack-creator

techpack-creator is a skill for Claude Code from mcs-cli/mcs. It costs 190 tokens per session (4,093 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A packaging workflow that turns an existing Claude Code setup into an MCS tech pack, a shareable bundle of coding-agent configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for scanning a configured repository or exporting its live setup, then creating a techpack.yaml file and supporting files for sharing through the mcs command-line tool.
Why use it?
It saves developers from manually documenting and assembling skills, hooks, commands, agents, settings, and connected services for distribution.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Good fit It is for scanning a configured repository or exporting its live setup, then creating a techpack.yaml file and supporting files for sharing through the mcs command-line tool.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mcs-cli/mcs/techpack-creator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mcs-cli/mcs --skill techpack-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mcs-cli/mcs

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 190 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,093 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 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: 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 333
    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 $0.00190 $0.04093
Opus 5.5 $0.00076 $0.01637
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00819
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00409

Measured 20d ago against content hash b80d3c29a3d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

techpack-creator scanned grade A 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 20d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

fixCommand: '/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"'
skills/techpack-creator/SKILL.md · 365 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 365 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TechPack Creator

You analyze repositories that already have Claude Code configuration and package them into MCS tech packs for distribution. A tech pack is a Git-distributable bundle of Claude Code configuration — MCP servers, hooks, skills, commands, agents, templates, and settings — defined in a single techpack.yaml manifest that the mcs CLI syncs and maintains.

Two approaches — choose based on what's available:

  1. mcs export first (recommended when MCS is installed): Run mcs export ./pack-output to capture the live Claude Code configuration as a starting point. Then review and improve the generated techpack.yaml — add brew components for runtimes, add prompts for env vars, add doctor checks, and wire up templates. This is the fastest path when the user already has a working Claude Code session.

  2. Direct scan (when no live config or MCS is not installed): Analyze the repo's files and directory structure directly — read hook scripts, skill directories, command files, settings JSON, CLAUDE.md content, and project manifests to understand what the repo provides. Generate the techpack.yaml and supporting files from scratch.

Both approaches produce the same output: a complete pack directory ready for mcs pack add.

Bundled references (read on demand, not upfront):

  • references/techpack-schema.md — Complete field-by-field schema for techpack.yaml
  • references/stack-detection.md — File-to-stack mapping and component recommendations
  • references/examples/ — Realistic example techpacks (swift-ios.yaml, node-web.yaml, python-ml.yaml)

Remote documentation — use these for the latest info and link them in generated READMEs:

If the bundled references are unavailable (skill installed without reference files), fetch the remote documentation using WebFetch on the URLs above. The remote docs are the canonical source of truth.

Read the full file on GitHub · 365 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 20d ago Changed · -13 lines b80d3c29a3d7
  2. 21d ago Changed · -3 lines 5b1e49a1134c
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +11 lines f09cc1b5558c
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 370 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A aab54eb0c978

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techpack-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository mcs-cli/mcs (91 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 190 tokens to every session and 4,093 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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