prepare-mcp-integration

prepare-mcp-integration is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paperclipai/paperclip. It costs 56 tokens per session (2,532 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A controlled process for researching and building connections between Paperclip and outside services through MCP, a standard way for agents to use external tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a vendor, prepare a reviewable content change, and then create one governed connector change for each approved connection.
Why use it?
It separates research from implementation and requires approval of the exact research version and approved connections. This prevents connector work from starting without review and keeps each connection traceable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to research a vendor, prepare a reviewable content change, and then create one governed connector change for each approved connection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paperclipai/paperclip/prepare-mcp-integration
About the project

Paperclip is a Node.js server and React application for coordinating AI agents as a business team, with goals, organizational roles, budgets, governance, and work tracking in one interface. It is used by people managing multiple agents or autonomous agent organizations across tools such as OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The catalogue includes skills, agents, an MCP add-on, and an instruction for working with Paperclip.

paperclipai/paperclip · 80,385 stars · on GitHub · paperclip.ing

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.

Any agent
npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill prepare-mcp-integration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,532 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Snyk warn 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 35
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00056 $0.02532
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01266
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00506
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00253

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5278d288a0cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prepare-mcp-integration 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

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packages/skills-catalog/catalog/optional/software-development/prepare-mcp-integration/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prepare MCP Integration

Take an input link or vendor brief through two separate phases: a reviewable research PR in paperclip-content, then connector implementation in Paperclip App only after a human accepts the exact research revision and connection set.

Preserve These Boundaries

  • Treat paperclip-content/integrations/README.md as the research contract and paperclip-content/integrations/skills/integration-harness/SKILL.md as its entrypoint. Reference and run them; do not copy their schemas, templates, state machines, reconciliation rules, or internal gates into this skill.
  • Treat paperclip/doc/connections/CONNECTOR-PLAYBOOK.md on the implementation target branch as the connector contract. Follow it end to end; do not substitute remembered behavior or the examples in this skill.
  • Finish Phase A with a research-only PR. Do not create an App implementation branch, task, or code change before the research gate is accepted.
  • Bind acceptance to one research PR head SHA and an explicit connection set. Acceptance does not cover later commits or additional connections.
  • Create one Paperclip App PR per approved connection. Shared prerequisite infrastructure or broad playbook corrections may use separate prerequisite PRs; never combine distinct connections into one connector PR.
  • Keep vendor credentials in approved secret storage. Never put secrets in briefs, catalog files, issue text, plans, fixtures, screenshots, logs, branch names, commits, or PRs.

Default Connection Experience

  • Request the broadest vendor permissions and scopes the connection can support by default. Operators should not have to predict every future tool they may need during setup. Enforce safe use after connection through Paperclip's action catalog, resource boundaries, ask-first policies, quarantine, and audit controls.
  • Keep the default wizard limited to the minimum information needed to create a working connection: connection identity, authentication, and any unavoidable tenant or resource boundary. Put optional scope reduction, feature groups, individual tool filters, response modes, transport tuning, and other expert controls behind one collapsed Advanced disclosure.
  • Give advanced controls working broad defaults so an operator can finish setup without opening them. When a provider truly requires an explicit advanced choice, document the exception and explain it in plain language instead of exposing protocol details by default.
  • Treat vendor permission breadth and Paperclip execution governance as separate layers. Do not reduce requested vendor permissions merely to stand in for missing action review, approval, quarantine, or audit policy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 231 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 5278d288a0cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prepare-mcp-integration is a skill published in the GitHub repository paperclipai/paperclip (80,385 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,532 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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