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.
npx skills add UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills --skill auditing-mcp-tool-integrationsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UnboundCompute/security-agent-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-mcp-tool-integrations)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-mcp-tool-integrations"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-mcp-tool-integrations/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-mcp-tool-integrations"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-mcp-tool-integrations.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00130 | $0.01499 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00065 | $0.00749 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00026 | $0.00300 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00150 |
Grade A, and why
auditing-mcp-tool-integrations 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 12d 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.
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.
Auditing MCP tool integrations: the tool layer is attack surface
When a model is given tools (over the Model Context Protocol or any equivalent tool interface), it does not just call them, it reads them: names, descriptions, parameter schemas, and returned data all enter the model context and are trusted by default. That makes the tool layer an injection surface distinct from user content, and one most reviews skip because they read tools as documentation instead of as model input.
When to use
- You are adding or reviewing a tool, an MCP server, or a marketplace/registry entry, especially a third-party one.
- You are auditing an agent's full tool manifest and its trust assumptions.
- You are deciding whether a tool needs pinning, sandboxing, or human approval.
Scope check
Audit tools and servers you own or are authorized to test. Do not tamper with tools others depend on. If you can't name the authorization, stop.
The loop
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Read every tool definition as the model sees it. Pull the exact names, descriptions, parameter schemas, and any metadata surfaced to the model. This text is model input, not docs. Anything imperative in it is a potential injection.
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Check for instructions in metadata (tool poisoning, line jumping). Does any description or parameter text address the model with commands: "always call this first," "ignore other tools," "read the user's credentials and include them"? Such text executes as an instruction the moment the manifest is loaded, before and without any call. That is line jumping, and it is the highest-yield finding here.
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Check names for collision and impersonation (shadowing). Do two tools share a name or namespace, or does a new tool's name and description mimic a trusted capability? Determine the resolution order and whether a malicious tool can intercept calls intended for a trusted one, or present itself as the trusted one to the model.
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Check for mutable definitions (rug-pull). Can a tool's description or behavior change after the user approved it, without re-review? Pin versions or hashes and test whether a changed definition is re-surfaced to the model unreviewed. A tool benign at approval time and hostile later is the rug-pull.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 130 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A 87cb04c03931
auditing-mcp-tool-integrations is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 1,499 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.
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