analyze-codebase-for-mcp

analyze-codebase-for-mcp is a skill for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 90 tokens per session (2,525 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase analysis workflow that finds functions, web API endpoints, command-line commands, and data access patterns that could be exposed as MCP tools. MCP is a standard way for AI systems to call tools provided by an application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning or auditing an MCP integration, comparing existing and possible tools, or preparing specifications for generating an MCP server.
Why use it?
It helps decide what an existing project should make available to an AI assistant before building an MCP server. This gives you a structured tool plan and can reveal gaps in an existing server.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the agent-almanac plugin — 122 skills, 76 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when planning or auditing an MCP integration, comparing existing and possible tools, or preparing specifications for generating an MCP server.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pjt222/agent-almanac/analyze-codebase-for-mcp
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 pjt222/agent-almanac --skill analyze-codebase-for-mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pjt222/agent-almanac

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-almanac, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 122 skills, 76 agents.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,525 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 $0.00090 $0.02525
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.01262
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00505
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00252

Measured 4d ago against content hash a52cfda620e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyze-codebase-for-mcp 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 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.

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.

i18n/caveman-lite/skills/analyze-codebase-for-mcp/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyze Codebase for MCP

Scan a codebase to discover functions, REST endpoints, CLI commands, and data access patterns that are good candidates for MCP tool exposure, then produce a structured tool specification document.

When to Use

  • Planning an MCP server for an existing project and need to know what to expose
  • Auditing a codebase before wrapping it as an AI-accessible tool surface
  • Comparing what a codebase can do versus what is already exposed via MCP
  • Generating a tool specification document to hand off to scaffold-mcp-server
  • Evaluating whether a third-party library is worth wrapping as MCP tools

Inputs

  • Required: Path to the codebase root directory
  • Required: Target language(s) of the codebase (e.g., TypeScript, Python, R, Go)
  • Optional: Existing MCP server code to compare against (gap analysis)
  • Optional: Domain focus (e.g., "data analysis", "file operations", "API integration")
  • Optional: Maximum number of tools to recommend (default: 20)

Procedure

Step 1: Scan Codebase Structure

1.1. Use Glob to map the directory tree, focusing on source directories:

  • src/**/*.{ts,js,py,R,go,rs} for source files
  • **/routes/**, **/api/**, **/controllers/** for endpoint definitions
  • **/cli/**, **/commands/** for CLI entry points
  • **/package.json, **/setup.py, **/DESCRIPTION for dependency metadata

1.2. Categorize files by role:

  • Entry points: main files, route handlers, CLI commands
  • Core logic: business logic functions, algorithms, data transformers
  • Data access: database queries, file I/O, API clients
  • Utilities: helpers, formatters, validators

1.3. Count total files, lines of code, and exported symbols to gauge project size.

Got: A categorized file inventory with role annotations.

If fail: If the codebase is too large (>10,000 files), narrow the scan to specific directories or modules using the domain focus input. If no source files are found, verify the root path and language parameters.

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 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 · 211 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A a52cfda620e6

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analyze-codebase-for-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (32 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 2,525 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-09-03.

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