umb-cms-dev-cli

umb-cms-dev-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from umbraco/Umbraco-CMS-MCP-Dev. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,351 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line guide for running and debugging the Umbraco MCP server. It explains how to list and call tools, inspect tool schemas, generate context documentation, and check configuration; Umbraco is a content management system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect available tools, call a tool for testing, generate context files, configure authentication, enable filtering or read-only behavior, and investigate CLI problems.
Why use it?
It provides direct checks for whether the server is configured and behaving as expected. It also explains how authentication settings are supplied without exposing secrets in commands.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the umb-cms-mcp plugin — 2 skills shipped together

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/umbraco/umbraco-cms-mcp-dev/umb-cms-dev-cli
Any agent
npx skills add umbraco/Umbraco-CMS-MCP-Dev --skill umb-cms-dev-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS-MCP-Dev

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install umb-cms-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,351 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 $0.00046 $0.01351
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00675
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00270
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00135

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9a4d8521efef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

umb-cms-dev-cli 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.

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.

plugins-server/skills/umb-cms-dev-cli/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Umbraco MCP Server — CLI Guide

This MCP server runs as a CLI tool. The CLI handles authentication and configuration, then exposes tools that talk directly to the Umbraco Management API.

Detecting the CLI Command

Determine the CLI command in a single check:

# One command to detect context — check for local build AND .env together
ls dist/index.js .env 2>/dev/null
  • If dist/index.js exists: use node dist/index.js
  • Otherwise: use npx @umbraco-cms/mcp-dev@latest

All examples below use <cli> as a placeholder — substitute the correct command.

Quick Reference

# List all tools
<cli> --list-tools

# Describe a specific tool's schema
<cli> --describe-tool <tool-name>

# Call a tool directly (requires auth via .env)
<cli> --call <tool-name> --call-args '{"key":"value"}'

# Generate context documentation
<cli> --generate-context > CONTEXT.md

# Debug resolved configuration
<cli> --debug-config

Authentication

Never pass secrets as CLI arguments. Use a .env file.

Env Var Required Description
UMBRACO_CLIENT_ID Yes OAuth client ID from Umbraco API user
UMBRACO_CLIENT_SECRET Yes OAuth client secret
UMBRACO_BASE_URL Yes Umbraco instance URL

Create a .env file:

UMBRACO_CLIENT_ID=your-client-id
UMBRACO_CLIENT_SECRET=your-secret
UMBRACO_BASE_URL=https://localhost:44391

Introspection commands (--list-tools, --describe-tool, --generate-context) do not require auth.

Tool Filtering

Flag Env Var Description
--umbraco-tool-modes UMBRACO_TOOL_MODES Enable named groups of collections
--umbraco-include-slices UMBRACO_INCLUDE_SLICES Only expose tools with these slices
--umbraco-exclude-slices UMBRACO_EXCLUDE_SLICES Hide tools with these slices
--umbraco-include-tool-collections UMBRACO_INCLUDE_TOOL_COLLECTIONS Only expose these collections
--umbraco-exclude-tool-collections UMBRACO_EXCLUDE_TOOL_COLLECTIONS Hide these collections
--umbraco-include-tools UMBRACO_INCLUDE_TOOLS Only expose these specific tools
--umbraco-exclude-tools UMBRACO_EXCLUDE_TOOLS Hide these specific tools

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 3d ago First seen · 147 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 9a4d8521efef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

umb-cms-dev-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository umbraco/Umbraco-CMS-MCP-Dev (39 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,351 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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