google-calendar-mcp: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/mcp-research/SKILL.md

mcp-research is a skill for Claude Code from nspady/google-calendar-mcp. It costs 0 tokens per session (923 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research guide for building and reviewing MCP servers. MCP is a standard way for AI assistants to connect to external tools and data, and this guide focuses on message rules, security, transports, and architecture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing MCP server code, planning tools or resources, investigating protocol problems, checking JSON-RPC 2.0 messages, and validating consent, approval, transport, and security practices.
Why use it?
It helps identify protocol mistakes and security gaps before an MCP server is used. It also points to different reference material for reviews, feature planning, debugging, and validation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

This is nspady/google-calendar-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on google-calendar-mcp 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 google-calendar-mcp configures →

About the project

google-calendar-mcp is an MCP server that lets AI assistants connect to Google Calendar and manage calendar information. It supports tasks such as searching, creating, updating, and deleting events, checking availability, handling recurring events, and detecting conflicts across calendars. The catalogue skills, instructions, commands, and agents provide workflows for operating this integration.

nspady/google-calendar-mcp · 1,186 stars · on GitHub

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nspady/google-calendar-mcp. 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/nspady/google-calendar-mcp/main/.claude/skills/mcp-research/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nspady/google-calendar-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 923 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00000 $0.00923
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00462
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00092

Measured 11d ago against content hash d96ff92ef735, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-research 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 11d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/mcp-research/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Implementation Research

Quick Start

What are you doing?

  • 📝 Reviewing MCP serverreferences/implementation-checklist.md
  • 🚀 Planning MCP featurereferences/protocol-patterns.md
  • 🐛 Protocol issuereferences/common-pitfalls.md
  • Architecture validation → All references + latest spec

Research Workflow

  1. Understand implementation - What MCP capabilities? Which transport? What security requirements?
  2. Consult references - Load relevant reference files progressively
  3. Check latest spec - WebFetch https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18
  4. Search community - WebSearch for "MCP [specific-issue] 2025"
  5. Validate compliance - Protocol compliance, security, best practices
  6. Report findings - Structured format (see examples/)

Critical MCP Requirements

Protocol Compliance (JSON-RPC 2.0)

  • All messages MUST include jsonrpc: "2.0"
  • Responses include result OR error, never both
  • Initialization: initialize → response → initialized notification
  • Use standard error codes (-32xxx)

Security & Consent

  • User consent MUST be obtained before data access
  • Tool execution requires explicit approval
  • No hardcoded credentials
  • Input/output sanitization required

Capability Advertisement

  • Declare all capabilities in initialize response
  • Types: tools, resources, prompts, logging, experimental
  • Protocol version: "2025-06-18" (latest)

Transport Layers

stdio:

  • Newline-delimited JSON-RPC messages
  • Use stderr for logging (not stdout)
  • Flush after each message

HTTP/SSE:

  • POST /mcp for JSON-RPC requests
  • GET /mcp/sse for server-sent events
  • CORS configured for browser clients

Key Reference Files

implementation-checklist.md - Protocol compliance, capabilities, security, production readiness protocol-patterns.md - Tool/resource/prompt patterns, best practices, code examples common-pitfalls.md - Known issues, edge cases, gotchas

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 11d ago First seen · 117 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d96ff92ef735

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mcp-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository nspady/google-calendar-mcp (1,186 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 923 tokens. 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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