vc:mcp-management

vc:mcp-management is a skill for Claude Code from opencue/cuecards. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,823 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ck:mcp-management, MIT.

An MCP management helper for discovering and using MCP servers, which connect coding agents to external tools and data sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect available MCP tools, prompts, and resources, choose capabilities for a task, and run them with the correct inputs.
Why use it?
It helps you find the right integration without loading every available tool or configuration detail into the agent's context.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to inspect available MCP tools, prompts, and resources, choose capabilities for a task, and run them with the correct inputs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/opencue/cuecards/vc-mcp-management
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add opencue/cuecards --skill vc-mcp-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/opencue/cuecards

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,823 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.
Origin 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00037 $0.01823
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00911
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00182

Measured 6d ago against content hash e3503c762c6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vc:mcp-management 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/cli.ts, scripts/mcp-client.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

This is a copy

98% identical to ck:mcp-management — 25 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/vc-mcp-management/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Management

Skill for managing and interacting with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

Overview

MCP is an open protocol enabling AI agents to connect to external tools and data sources. This skill provides scripts and utilities to discover, analyze, and execute MCP capabilities from configured servers without polluting the main context window.

Key Benefits:

  • Progressive disclosure of MCP capabilities (load only what's needed)
  • Intelligent tool/prompt/resource selection based on task requirements
  • Multi-server management from single config file
  • Context-efficient: subagents handle MCP discovery and execution
  • Persistent tool catalog: automatically saves discovered tools to JSON for fast reference

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  1. Discovering MCP Capabilities: Need to list available tools/prompts/resources from configured servers
  2. Task-Based Tool Selection: Analyzing which MCP tools are relevant for a specific task
  3. Executing MCP Tools: Calling MCP tools programmatically with proper parameter handling
  4. MCP Integration: Building or debugging MCP client implementations
  5. Context Management: Avoiding context pollution by delegating MCP operations to subagents

Core Capabilities

1. Configuration Management

MCP servers configured in .Codex/.mcp.json.

Gemini CLI Integration (recommended): Create symlink to .gemini/settings.json:

mkdir -p .gemini && ln -sf .Codex/.mcp.json .gemini/settings.json

See references/configuration.md and references/gemini-cli-integration.md.

GEMINI.md Response Format: Project root contains GEMINI.md that Gemini CLI auto-loads, enforcing structured JSON responses:

{"server":"name","tool":"name","success":true,"result":<data>,"error":null}

This ensures parseable, consistent output instead of unpredictable natural language. The file defines:

  • Mandatory JSON-only response format (no markdown, no explanations)
  • Maximum 500 character responses
  • Error handling structure
  • Available MCP servers reference

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 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. 6d ago First seen · 214 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A e3503c762c6d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vc:mcp-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository opencue/cuecards (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,823 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to ck:mcp-management, differing in 25 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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