taskchad-os: Skill for Claude Code

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

mcp-client is a skill for Claude Code from TheSmokeDev/taskchad-os. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,043 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A client for connecting a coding agent to MCP servers, which provide tools through a common connection standard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Listing configured servers, viewing their tools, and calling those tools through configuration files and a command-line script.
Why use it?
It avoids loading every available tool description at once and instead loads server tools only when needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is TheSmokeDev/taskchad-os's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on taskchad-os 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 taskchad-os configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to TheSmokeDev/taskchad-os. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheSmokeDev/taskchad-os/master/.claude/skills/mcp-client/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheSmokeDev/taskchad-os

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,043 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Agent Snooping · line 3
    Skill accesses MCP server configuration files (mcp.json). MCP configs contain server URLs, authentication tokens, and tool definitions — reading them allows the skill to discover and potentially abuse other tool integrations.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that read MCP configuration files (mcp.json). MCP server details should be managed by the agent runtime, not read by individual skills.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 66
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 76
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • low MCP Rug Pull · line 122
    pip install without ==version installs the latest release, which could include malicious changes.
    Fix: Pin the version: pip install package==1.2.3
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 $0.00102 $0.01043
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00522
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00104

Measured 9d ago against content hash b4cad61e866c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-client 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/mcp_client.py), 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/mcp-client/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Universal MCP Client

Connect to any MCP server with progressive disclosure - load tool schemas on-demand instead of dumping thousands of tokens into context upfront.

Skill Location

This skill is located at: .claude/skills/mcp-client/

Script path: .claude/skills/mcp-client/scripts/mcp_client.py

Configuration

The script looks for config in this order:

  1. MCP_CONFIG_PATH env var (custom path)
  2. references/mcp-config.json (this skill's config - recommended)
  3. .mcp.json in project root
  4. ~/.claude.json

Your config file: .claude/skills/mcp-client/references/mcp-config.json

Edit this file to add your API keys. The example file (example-mcp-config.json) is kept as a reference template.

If the user hasn't provided their Zapier API key yet, ask them for it.

Running Commands

All commands use the script at .claude/skills/mcp-client/scripts/mcp_client.py:

# List configured servers
python .claude/skills/mcp-client/scripts/mcp_client.py servers

# List tools from a server
python .claude/skills/mcp-client/scripts/mcp_client.py tools <server_name>

# Call a tool
python .claude/skills/mcp-client/scripts/mcp_client.py call <server> <tool> '{"arg": "value"}'

Workflow

  1. Check config exists - Run servers command. If error, create .mcp.json
  2. List servers - See what MCP servers are configured
  3. List tools - Get tool schemas from a specific server
  4. Call tool - Execute a tool with arguments

Commands Reference

Command Description
servers List all configured MCP servers
tools <server> List tools with full parameter schemas
call <server> <tool> '<json>' Execute a tool with arguments

Example: Zapier

# 1. List servers to confirm Zapier is configured
python .claude/skills/mcp-client/scripts/mcp_client.py servers

# 2. List Zapier tools
python .claude/skills/mcp-client/scripts/mcp_client.py tools zapier

# 3. Call a Zapier tool
python .claude/skills/mcp-client/scripts/mcp_client.py call zapier <tool_name> '{"param": "value"}'

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 9d ago First seen · 130 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A b4cad61e866c

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mcp-client is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheSmokeDev/taskchad-os (23 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,043 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 2026-08-30.

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