test-servers

test-servers is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from modelcontextprotocol/inspector. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,018 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 CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/modelcontextprotocol/inspector/test-servers
Any agent
npx skills add modelcontextprotocol/inspector --skill test-servers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for test-servers

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/modelcontextprotocol/inspector/test-servers.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/modelcontextprotocol/inspector/test-servers)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/modelcontextprotocol/inspector/test-servers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/modelcontextprotocol/inspector/test-servers.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,018 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00097 $0.01018
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00509
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00102

Measured yesterday against content hash 4837fec93caf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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 · 99 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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. yesterday First seen · 99 lines · 97 tokens per session scan C 4837fec93caf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test-servers is a skill published in the GitHub repository modelcontextprotocol/inspector (10,828 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,018 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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.

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