slope-api-reference

A reference guide for using SLOPE's 12 MCP tools. It explains which search or context level to use, how to run commands, and how to handle sessions, claims, and testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching project context, writing SLOPE execute calls, managing sessions and claims, checking testing workflows, and debugging MCP errors.
Why use it?
It helps the agent choose the right SLOPE tool and avoid known usage errors when retrieving or changing project information.

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/srbryers/slope/slope-api-reference
Any agent
npx skills add srbryers/slope --skill slope-api-reference
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/srbryers/slope

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 870 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00084 $0.00870
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00435
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00087

Measured 3d ago against content hash 06334749ca79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slope-api-reference 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/execute-examples.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.claude/skills/slope-api-reference/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SLOPE API Reference

Reference for using SLOPE's 12 MCP tools effectively. Covers the context tier decision tree, tool categories, common patterns, and all known gotchas.

File Map

File Purpose
SKILL.md This file — overview, context tiers, tool categories
gotchas.md All 12 MCP gotchas with examples and workarounds
references/mcp-tools.md All 12 tools with input schemas and output shapes
references/execute-cookbook.md Common execute() patterns for scoring, analysis, roadmaps
references/search-guide.md Module-by-module search guide with special cases
scripts/execute-examples.js Composable JS snippets for execute() calls

Context Tier Decision Tree

Always use the lowest tier that answers your question:

Need to know which package owns a feature?
  → L0: Read CODEBASE.md headers (~2k tokens)

Need function signatures, CLI commands, guards?
  → L1: Read full CODEBASE.md (~5k tokens)
  → Or: search({ module: 'map' })

Need to find a specific implementation?
  → L1.5: context_search("query") or search({ module: 'map', query: '...' })

Need implementation detail, debugging, modifying code?
  → L2: Read tool on specific files (unbounded tokens)

MCP Tool Categories

Core Tools (always available)

Tool Purpose
search Discover API functions, filter by module/query
execute Run JS in sandbox with full SLOPE API pre-injected
context_search Semantic search (embeddings) with grep fallback

Store-Backed Tools (require .slope/slope.db)

Tool Purpose
session_status Current session info
acquire_claim Claim a ticket/area for the sprint
check_conflicts Detect overlapping claims
store_status Store health check

Testing Tools (require .slope/slope.db)

Tool Purpose
testing_session_start Begin a manual testing session
testing_session_finding Record a test finding
testing_session_end End testing session with summary
testing_session_status Current testing session state
testing_plan_status Test plan completion status

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 3d ago First seen · 94 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 06334749ca79

Subscribe to this mod's changes

slope-api-reference is a skill published in the GitHub repository srbryers/slope (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 870 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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