mcpvessel

mcpvessel is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from okedeji/mcpvessel. It costs 152 tokens per session (5,419 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A safety tool for running Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers inside isolated containers. MCP servers are programs that give an AI assistant access to outside tools or data; this tool restricts and monitors their network access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install, run, register, monitor, and audit an MCP server in a controlled environment.
Why use it?
It helps you inspect what an MCP server tries to send over the network while blocking unapproved destinations or waiting for human approval.

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/okedeji/mcpvessel/claude-code
Any agent
npx skills add okedeji/mcpvessel --skill claude-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/okedeji/mcpvessel

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 mcpvessel

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/okedeji/mcpvessel/claude-code"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/okedeji/mcpvessel/claude-code.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,419 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00152 $0.05419
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.02710
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.01084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00542

Measured 4d ago against content hash 34d75d31cedc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcpvessel 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 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.

Subtle steeringlowPrompt injection

Instructions that bias recommendations or shape behaviour without the user noticing.

If one form is not found, try the other before concluding anything. Never tell the user a server does not exist because a search or one coordinate missed;

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

internal/clientskill/skills/claude-code/SKILL.md · 360 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 360 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Driving mcpvessel

mcpvessel runs an MCP server inside a cage with deny-default egress: the server reaches only hosts on its allow-list, and a new host is blocked or held until a human approves it. Your loop is this: get an MCP server caged and running so you can use it, then, as you use it, watch what it does and report what ensues, above all anything it tries to send out. The caged server is meant for you to use: you register it as your own tools and call them, and caging is what makes that safe, because everything it sends stays inspectable. You are the user's eyes on a server they cannot otherwise see inside. Everything else the tool can do is out of your lane.

You are the operator and the analyst; the human is the approver. You cage, serve, register, watch, and report. You never approve a server's egress or grant it a secret yourself.

Prerequisite: the daemon must be running. If a command says it is not, run mcpvessel init --skip-skill. Always pass --skip-skill: the skill is already installed (it is how you are reading this), and --skip-skill keeps init from prompting to install it, which would stall you.

You already have a reference. mcpvessel init installed and served mcpvessel-docs, a caged MCP server carrying every mcpvessel doc and all its code, and registered it with Claude Code as mcpvessel-docs. You do not set it up; it is already there. Query its tools whenever this skill does not cover something, the user asks about mcpvessel behavior you are unsure of, or you are not confident in an answer, rather than guessing. If those tools are not available (the user skipped that step in init), fall back to the open-source repository at github.com/okedeji/mcpvessel, where every doc and all the code live.

Before you cage anything (do this first, once per session)

The first time you take up an mcpvessel task in a session, ground yourself before you act. Skipping this is how you cage the wrong server or misread what the cage does:

Read the full file on GitHub · 360 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 · 360 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 34d75d31cedc

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mcpvessel is a skill published in the GitHub repository okedeji/mcpvessel (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 5,419 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (subtle steering). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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