context-engineering: Skill for Claude Code

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

mcp-server-builder is a skill for Claude Code from timothywarner-org/context-engineering. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,366 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide and toolkit for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript. MCP is a standard way for an AI assistant to access tools, data, and prompts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating AI tools, resources, and prompts; configuring local or web connections; and integrating with applications such as Claude Desktop.
Why use it?
It provides the structures and configuration needed to create an MCP server and diagnose protocol problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is timothywarner-org/context-engineering's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on context-engineering 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 context-engineering configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector node src/index.js.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to timothywarner-org/context-engineering. 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/timothywarner-org/context-engineering/main/.claude/skills/mcp-server-builder/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timothywarner-org/context-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,366 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 $0.00071 $0.01366
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00546
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00137

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8ce7ecb1ee64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-server-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-server-builder/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Server Builder

Build production-ready MCP servers with proper tool schemas, resources, and transport configuration.

Quick Start

Python (FastMCP)

from mcp.server.fastmcp import FastMCP

mcp = FastMCP("my-server")

@mcp.tool()
async def greet(name: str) -> str:
    """Greet someone by name."""
    return f"Hello, {name}!"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    mcp.run()

JavaScript

import { Server } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/index.js";
import { StdioServerTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/stdio.js";

const server = new Server({ name: "my-server", version: "1.0.0" }, { capabilities: { tools: {} } });

server.setRequestHandler(ListToolsRequestSchema, async () => ({
  tools: [{ name: "greet", description: "Greet someone", inputSchema: { type: "object", properties: { name: { type: "string" } }, required: ["name"] } }]
}));

server.setRequestHandler(CallToolRequestSchema, async (request) => {
  if (request.params.name === "greet") {
    return { content: [{ type: "text", text: `Hello, ${request.params.arguments.name}!` }] };
  }
});

const transport = new StdioServerTransport();
await server.connect(transport);

Language Selection

Criterion Python (FastMCP) JavaScript/TypeScript
Rapid prototyping Best Good
Type safety Via Pydantic Native (TS)
Async I/O Native Native
Package ecosystem pip/uv npm
Production deploy Container Apps Container Apps

Project Structure

Python

my-mcp/
├── pyproject.toml
├── src/
│   └── my_mcp/
│       ├── __init__.py
│       ├── server.py      # FastMCP instance
│       └── tools/         # Tool implementations
├── data/                  # Persistent storage
└── .env.example

JavaScript/TypeScript

my-mcp/
├── package.json
├── src/
│   ├── index.js           # Server entry
│   └── tools/             # Tool handlers
├── data/                  # Persistent storage
└── .env.example

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 lines

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. 2mo ago First seen · 217 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 8ce7ecb1ee64

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mcp-server-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository timothywarner-org/context-engineering (27 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,366 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.