ssh-mcp-helper

ssh-mcp-helper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SIE-Operations-and-Maintenance-Team/ssh-mcp-server. It costs 110 tokens per session (2,664 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ssh-mcp-helper, ISC.

An interactive setup guide for connecting an SSH server to an MCP client such as Cursor or Claude Code. It collects connection and security settings, then creates the required configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add one or more remote computers, choose authentication and transport settings, restrict allowed commands, and write the resulting JSON into an MCP client's configuration.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork from installing and configuring the connection, while keeping passwords and other credentials out of the process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for cline. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to add one or more remote computers, choose authentication and transport settings, restrict allowed commands, and write the resulting JSON into an MCP client's configuration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sie-operations-and-maintenance-team/ssh-mcp-server/ssh-mcp-helper
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,664 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 97% 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 $0.00110 $0.02664
Opus 5.5 $0.00044 $0.01066
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00533
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00266

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 66f2e617dbe9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ssh-mcp-helper 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to ssh-mcp-helper — 43 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.

skills/ssh-mcp-helper/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ssh-mcp-helper

概述

帮助用户通过交互式问答完成 @keysqiu/ssh-mcp-server 的安装预检与 MCP 客户端配置。技能本身不代替用户输入凭据,而是逐项确认认证方式、连接参数与安全策略,最终产出可直接写入 MCP 客户端配置文件的 mcpServers JSON 片段。

核心准则: 所有可枚举的选项(MCP 客户端类型、认证方式、传输模式、是/否开关)必须使用 AskUserQuestion 让用户选择;只有不可枚举的输入(host、用户名、私钥路径、密码、自定义白名单正则等)才允许自由文本提问。

何时使用

  • 用户明确要安装/配置/新增 ssh-mcp-server
  • 用户提到为 Cursor / Claude Code / Cline / Continue 等客户端添加 SSH MCP
  • 用户希望在已有 mcpServers 中追加一台 SSH 主机
  • 用户问「ssh-mcp-server 的 mcp.json 怎么写」

何时不使用

  • 用户要修改 ssh-mcp-server 源码 → 直接编辑代码,不进入向导
  • 用户只是想跑某条 SSH 命令 → 直接调用已存在的 ssh-mcp-server 工具
  • 用户在问 SSH 协议本身的概念 → 解释即可,无需走流程

工作流程

digraph ssh_mcp_helper {
    "0. 前置环境检查" [shape=box];
    "1. 选择 MCP 客户端" [shape=box];
    "2. 单台 vs 多台" [shape=diamond];
    "3. 选择认证方式" [shape=box];
    "4. 询问连接参数" [shape=box];
    "5. 询问高级选项" [shape=box];
    "6. 生成 JSON 片段" [shape=box];
    "7. 合并写入配置" [shape=box];
    "8. 提示重启与验证" [shape=doublecircle];

    "0. 前置环境检查" -> "1. 选择 MCP 客户端";
    "1. 选择 MCP 客户端" -> "2. 单台 vs 多台";
    "2. 单台 vs 多台" -> "3. 选择认证方式" [label="单台"];
    "2. 单台 vs 多台" -> "3. 选择认证方式" [label="多台 → 写 ssh-config.json"];
    "3. 选择认证方式" -> "4. 询问连接参数";
    "4. 询问连接参数" -> "5. 询问高级选项";
    "5. 询问高级选项" -> "6. 生成 JSON 片段";
    "6. 生成 JSON 片段" -> "7. 合并写入配置";
    "7. 合并写入配置" -> "8. 提示重启与验证";
}

Step 0:前置环境检查

  • 先确认目标形态:若用户已安装 Windows 桌面应用(托盘常驻 + Web 管理台),不要走本向导——引导其打开管理台,用「系统 → 一键注册」把客户端指向 http://127.0.0.1:61823/mcp;主机在管理台维护,凭据无需写进客户端配置
  • 本向导面向 CLI / npm 形态:运行 node -v 与 npm -v 确认本机有 Node.js(推荐 v18+)
  • 缺失则先提示用户安装 Node.js,再继续后续步骤
  • 安装方式用 npm install -g @keysqiu/ssh-mcp-server(不要用 npx:每次启动都要访问 npm registry 解析版本,内网 / 弱网易失败)

Step 1:选择 MCP 客户端(AskUserQuestion 多选一)

客户端 默认配置位置
Claude Code(全局) ~/.claude.json 的 mcpServers 字段
Claude Code(项目级) 项目根 .mcp.json
Cursor ~/.cursor/mcp.json
Cline / Continue / 其他 让用户提供具体路径

Step 2:单台 vs 多台(AskUserQuestion 二选一)

  • 单台:直接使用命令行参数(--host 等)
  • 多台:生成 ssh-config.json 并使用 --config-file

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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. 1mo ago Changed · +14 lines 66f2e617dbe9
  2. 2mo ago Changed 8c46be57735c
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 167 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A ca568bba1b17

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ssh-mcp-helper is a skill published in the GitHub repository SIE-Operations-and-Maintenance-Team/ssh-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed ISC. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 2,664 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to ssh-mcp-helper, differing in 43 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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