umb-cms-mcp-setup

umb-cms-mcp-setup is a skill for Claude Code from umbraco/Umbraco-CMS-MCP-Dev. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,790 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A setup guide for connecting the Umbraco MCP server to an AI coding client such as Claude, Cursor, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, or Codex. Umbraco is a content management system, and MCP is a standard way for an AI client to use external tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when installing or configuring the Umbraco MCP server, connecting it to an AI assistant, checking prerequisites, or diagnosing connection problems.
Why use it?
It explains the installation, connection, permissions, and troubleshooting steps needed to make the server available to an AI client. This avoids confusing setup instructions or using the wrong client configuration.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

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

Good fit Use it when installing or configuring the Umbraco MCP server, connecting it to an AI assistant, checking prerequisites, or diagnosing connection problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/umbraco/umbraco-cms-mcp-dev/umb-cms-mcp-setup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,790 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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: 1 finding, 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 30
    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.
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 $0.00068 $0.01790
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00895
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00179

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9e0c944e8fa0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

umb-cms-mcp-setup scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

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.

Reads MCP configurationmediumAgent snooping

mcp.json carries server URLs and auth tokens; reading it lets a mod discover and abuse other integrations.

When the client is a coding agent working against a project (Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, etc.), the preferred setup is a project-scoped MCP config file — e.g. `.mcp.json` for Claude Code — rather than a global/user-lev
plugins-server/skills/umb-cms-mcp-setup/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Umbraco MCP Server — Setup Guide

This covers running @umbraco-cms/mcp-dev as a live MCP server connected to an AI client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, etc). For debugging the package directly on the command line (--list-tools, --call, --debug-config), see the umb-cms-dev-cli skill instead — the same env vars apply either way.

For install steps, verifying the connection, and troubleshooting, use the official docs rather than this skill — they're the source of truth and won't drift out of sync the way a duplicated copy here would:

Umbraco MCP Documentation

For per-client configuration, go straight to the guide for the client actually in use rather than the general page above:

Prerequisites

  • An Umbraco CMS instance the client can reach over HTTPS (or HTTP on a local network).
  • Node.js 22 or later (the package's declared engines.node requirement) if the client itself needs to run npx — most desktop clients bundle their own Node runtime, so this mainly matters if you're invoking the server manually.
  • An Umbraco API user with the permissions you want the agent to have — see Umbraco's API user documentation. You'll come away with a client ID and client secret; treat the secret like a password (never commit it, never paste it into chat).

Coding Environments: .mcp.json

When the client is a coding agent working against a project (Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, etc.), the preferred setup is a project-scoped MCP config file — e.g. .mcp.json for Claude Code — rather than a global/user-level config, so the server definition can be checked in and shared across the team without each developer's real secrets:

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 9d ago First seen · 85 lines · 68 tokens per session scan B 9e0c944e8fa0

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umb-cms-mcp-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository umbraco/Umbraco-CMS-MCP-Dev (39 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,790 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads mcp configuration). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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