inspector: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/test-servers/SKILL.md

test-servers is a skill for Claude Code from modelcontextprotocol/inspector. It costs 97 tokens per session (3,540 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A guide for running configurable MCP test servers by hand. MCP is a protocol that lets an agent connect to external tools and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for building and connecting test servers during manual tests, bug investigations, and smoke tests.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose the right test setup and protocol version when checking a change or reproducing a bug.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

This is modelcontextprotocol/inspector's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on inspector 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 inspector configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to modelcontextprotocol/inspector. 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/modelcontextprotocol/inspector/main/.claude/skills/test-servers/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,540 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00097 $0.03540
Opus 5.5 $0.00039 $0.01416
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00708
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00354

Measured 10d ago against content hash 756424f813ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

test-servers scanned grade C 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 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf test-servers/build
.claude/skills/test-servers/SKILL.md · 284 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago Changed 756424f813ab
  2. 17d ago Changed · +9 lines 0062a1a45b18
  3. 24d ago Changed · +11 lines be2737efa012
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +164 lines 2145d871a8ab
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines ef1e8ab096e8
  6. 1mo ago First seen · 99 lines · 97 tokens per session scan C 4837fec93caf

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test-servers is a skill published in the GitHub repository modelcontextprotocol/inspector (11,143 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 3,540 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.