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.claude/skills/mcp-builder/SKILL.md

mcp-builder is a skill for Claude Code from TheDecipherist/claude-code-mastery-project-starter-kit. It costs 66 tokens per session (928 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for building an MCP server, a program that exposes selected services or APIs as tools an AI agent can call.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is used to study a target API, design clear tool names and inputs, choose a TypeScript or Python implementation, and build local or remote MCP servers.
Why use it?
It helps shape tools around real user tasks instead of exposing a confusing one-to-one copy of every API endpoint.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

This is TheDecipherist/claude-code-mastery-project-starter-kit's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-code-mastery-project-starter-kit itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-code-mastery-project-starter-kit configures →

not rated 342repo +2 4mo ago A scan SkillSpector: pass 66 tokens original MIT
View source ↗ TheDecipherist/claude-code-mastery-project-starter-kit thedecipherist.github.io
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 928 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 $0.00066 $0.00928
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00371
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00093

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ced321eec4e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-builder 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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/mcp-builder/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build an MCP Server

An MCP server is judged by one thing: whether an LLM can use its tools to finish real tasks. Tool count, endpoint coverage, and cleverness are means, not the goal. Build for the agent that will call it.

Default stack

  • TypeScript, on the MCP SDK. Strong typing and good model familiarity. Drop to Python (FastMCP) only when the service it wraps is Python-native.
  • Transport: streamable HTTP with stateless JSON for remote servers; stdio for local. Stateless scales and debugs far more easily than session streaming.
  • Resolve the SDK version at build time, don't hardcode from memory. The current SDK README is the source of truth.

The four phases

1. Understand the target. Read the service's API or schema first. Identify the handful of tasks a user actually wants done through it, not every endpoint. A wrapper that mirrors 60 REST routes one-to-one is worse than 8 tools shaped around real workflows.

2. Design the tools. This is where quality is won or lost.

  • Discoverable names: verb_noun, scoped by service, for example github_create_issue, orders_find_by_customer. The name should tell the model when to reach for it.
  • Descriptions written for the model, stating what the tool does and when to use it, not just what it returns.
  • Explicit input and output schemas. Constrain inputs; return structured, parseable output, not prose the model has to scrape.
  • Annotations: mark each tool readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, or idempotentHint so the client can reason about safety.
  • Actionable errors. "Invalid date" is useless; "expected ISO 8601, got 03/04/2026, did you mean 2026-03-04" lets the model self-correct.
  • Balance coverage against workflow tools. Comprehensive low-level tools give the agent room to compose; a few high-level workflow tools cut steps for the common path. Most good servers ship both.

3. Implement. Shared infrastructure first (client, auth, pagination, error handling), then the tools on top. If the server touches a database, it follows the same kit rules as everything else: one shared client, data access through the adapter, StrictDB if installed otherwise the native driver, never Mongoose.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 2mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A ced321eec4e3

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mcp-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheDecipherist/claude-code-mastery-project-starter-kit (342 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 928 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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