api-utils

api-utils is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wallieinformal201/pentest-mcp-server. It costs 37 tokens per session (4,278 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of api-utils, Apache-2.0.

A reference for utility functions provided by the MCP framework, including formatting, parsing, network requests, security, and identifiers. It documents their method signatures, options, and optional package requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to format Markdown, tables, diffs, or trees; parse YAML, XML, CSV, JSON, PDFs, dates, or front matter; make timed requests; and apply sanitisation or rate limits.
Why use it?
It gives you the exact interface and setup details needed to use shared helpers correctly instead of recreating them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Part of the @cyanheads/pentest-mcp-server plugin — 31 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to format Markdown, tables, diffs, or trees; parse YAML, XML…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wallieinformal201/pentest-mcp-server/api-utils
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.

Any agent
npx skills add wallieinformal201/pentest-mcp-server --skill api-utils
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wallieinformal201/pentest-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install @cyanheads/pentest-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,278 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 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00037 $0.04278
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.02139
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00856
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00428

Measured 6d ago against content hash 6b69e9a3904c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-utils 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to api-utils — 14 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/api-utils/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Utility exports from @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/utils. Utilities with complex APIs have dedicated reference files; simpler utilities are documented inline below.

Tier 3 = optional peer dependency. Install as needed (e.g., bun add js-yaml). All Tier 3 methods are async (lazy-load deps on first call).

References

Reference Path Covers
Formatting references/formatting.md markdown(), MarkdownBuilder, diffFormatter, tableFormatter, treeFormatter — builder patterns, option types, style variants, usage examples
Parsing references/parsing.md yamlParser, xmlParser, csvParser, jsonParser, pdfParser, dateParser, frontmatterParser — method signatures, option types, peer deps, Allow flags, PDF workflows
Security references/security.md sanitization, RateLimiter, IdGenerator — config types, method details, sensitive fields, usage examples

@cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/utils — network

Export API Notes
fetchWithTimeout (url, timeoutMs, context: RequestContext, options?: FetchWithTimeoutOptions) -> Promise<Response> Wraps fetch with AbortController timeout. FetchWithTimeoutOptions extends RequestInit (minus signal) and adds rejectPrivateIPs?: boolean and signal?: AbortSignal (external cancellation). SSRF guard (best-effort, not hard isolation): blocks RFC 1918, loopback, link-local, CGNAT, cloud metadata. DNS validation on Node, Bun, and Cloudflare Workers under nodejs_compat; hostname-only fallback otherwise. Manual redirect following (max 5) with per-hop SSRF check. DNS rebinding / TOCTOU gap — the validation lookup and fetch's own resolution are independent; pair with egress controls or a DNS-pinning fetch proxy for strong isolation. Error/log redaction: URLs written into thrown errors and log lines are reduced to origin + pathname — the query string (where API keys commonly ride: ?api-key=…, ?api_key=…) never reaches the client or the logs. The actual request still uses the full URL.
withRetry <T>(fn: () => Promise<T>, options?: RetryOptions) -> Promise<T> Executes fn with exponential backoff. Retries on transient errors (ServiceUnavailable, Timeout, RateLimited); non-transient errors fail immediately. On exhaustion, enriches the final error with attempt count in message and data.retryAttempts. Place the retry boundary around the full pipeline (fetch + parse), not just the network call. RetryOptions: maxRetries (default 3), baseDelayMs (default 1000), maxDelayMs (default 30000), jitter (default 0.25), operation (log label), context (RequestContext), signal (AbortSignal), isTransient (custom predicate).
httpErrorFromResponse (response: Response, options?: HttpErrorFromResponseOptions) -> Promise<McpError> Maps an HTTP Response to a properly classified McpError — full status table including 401/403/408/422/429/5xx, body capture (truncated), retry-after header, optional cause. Use this instead of hand-rolling if (status === 429) ... ladders. Reads the response body — clone() first if you need it elsewhere. HttpErrorFromResponseOptions: service? (logical name in message, e.g. 'NCBI'), captureBody? (default true), bodyLimit? (default 500), data? (extra fields merged into error.data), cause?, codeOverride? (per-status mapping override). Pairs naturally with withRetry — both classify codes the same way.
httpStatusToErrorCode (status: number) -> JsonRpcErrorCode | undefined Sync status → code lookup. Returns undefined for 1xx/2xx/3xx. Use when you need just the code without a Response object handy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 6d ago First seen · 177 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 6b69e9a3904c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-utils is a skill published in the GitHub repository wallieinformal201/pentest-mcp-server (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 4,278 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to api-utils, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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