ssh-mcp-helper

ssh-mcp-helper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from perhamm/ssh-mcp-server. It costs 176 tokens per session (5,649 once invoked), scanned D, original, no licence file.

A guide for setting up, configuring, or extending an SSH MCP server connection. SSH is a way to securely access another computer over a network, and MCP is a standard way for agents to use tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add an SSH connection to Cursor or Claude Code, configure remote hosts, write the MCP configuration, or extend an existing SSH MCP setup.
Why use it?
It explains how to connect an agent to remote hosts and configure access such as a SOCKS proxy or sudo permissions.

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/perhamm/ssh-mcp-server/ssh-mcp-helper
Any agent
npx skills add perhamm/ssh-mcp-server --skill ssh-mcp-helper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/perhamm/ssh-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 ssh-mcp-helper

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/perhamm/ssh-mcp-server/ssh-mcp-helper"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/perhamm/ssh-mcp-server/ssh-mcp-helper.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,649 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. 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 $0.00176 $0.05649
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.02825
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.01130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00565

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1928d9592fc3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

ssh-mcp-helper scanned grade D with 3 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 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

description: Use when the user wants to install, configure or extend an ssh-mcp-server MCP connection ("set up ssh-mcp-server for me", "add an SSH MCP to Cursor/Claude Code", "add another remote host to my MCP", "how do

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

"--privateKey", "~/.ssh/id_rsa",

Makes network callslowCapability

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

Tell the user how the SOCKS5 tunnel is consumed once open: `curl --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:8777 http://service.internal/`, or `HTTPS_PROXY=socks5h://127.0.0.1:8777` for tools that read the environment.
skills/ssh-mcp-helper/SKILL.md · 306 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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. 4d ago First seen · 306 lines · 176 tokens per session scan D 1928d9592fc3

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ssh-mcp-helper is a skill published in the GitHub repository perhamm/ssh-mcp-server (0 stars, last pushed 6d ago), with no licence file. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 5,649 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, reaches for credential files, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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