preset-mcp-troubleshooting

preset-mcp-troubleshooting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from preset-io/agent-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (355 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A troubleshooting guide for Superset MCP, a connection that lets an AI assistant use Superset tools. It covers service health, invalid inputs, permissions, oversized responses, and bug reports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check service availability, correct tool arguments, handle permission denials, narrow oversized requests, or prepare a bug report.
Why use it?
It provides a defined way to diagnose MCP failures without switching to direct API access.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the preset-mcp-skills plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to check service availability, correct tool arguments, handle permission denials, narrow oversized requests, or prepare a bug report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/preset-io/agent-skills/preset-mcp-troubleshooting
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 preset-io/agent-skills --skill preset-mcp-troubleshooting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/preset-io/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install preset-mcp-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 355 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 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 $0.00042 $0.00355
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00178
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00036

Measured 12d ago against content hash 76e57d2d44ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

preset-mcp-troubleshooting 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 12d 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.

plugins/preset-mcp-skills/skills/preset-mcp-troubleshooting/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

preset-mcp-troubleshooting

Use when Superset MCP tools fail, return validation errors, return permission errors, or produce oversized responses.

Always

  • Stay on MCP troubleshooting; do not switch to direct APIs.
  • Use health_check first for service availability.
  • Use generate_bug_report when the user says MCP is broken or asks how to report an issue.
  • Treat permission denied as authoritative.
  • No permission workaround: do not search alternate tools, REST APIs, or direct APIs to expose restricted data.
  • Use live tool schemas to fix validation errors.

Decision Rules

  • Connection or availability issue: health_check.
  • Tool parameter/schema issue: inspect the live tool schema and retry only with corrected MCP arguments.
  • Permission issue: explain the denied operation and stop; do not search for alternate tools to expose restricted data.
  • Response too large: rerun with narrower filters, identifiers, page sizes, or row limits.
  • Repro/report request: generate_bug_report.

Workflow Order

  1. Classify the failure: availability, validation, permission, unsupported capability, oversized response, or unknown error.
  2. Use the smallest diagnostic MCP tool.
  3. Explain the failure in user terms.
  4. For permission denied, stop or generate bug report when requested.
  5. Stop before direct API or REST API calls.
  6. Retry only when the correction is clear and remains on MCP.

Retrieve

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. 12d ago First seen · 39 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 76e57d2d44ca

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preset-mcp-troubleshooting is a skill published in the GitHub repository preset-io/agent-skills (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 355 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.