mcp-better-lab

mcp-better-lab is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wolfe-Jam/mcp-better. It costs 32 tokens per session (279 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lab playbook for testing the mcp-better textbook server. It documents a health check, an echo round-trip, and an optional confirmation step in the MCP protocol.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize the server, list its skills, read skill resources, check liveness, echo a message, and optionally test confirmation support.
Why use it?
It provides a defined test sequence and prevents claims about tools that the server does not actually expose.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to initialize the server, list its skills, read skill resources, check liveness, echo a message, and optionally test confirmation support.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wolfe-jam/mcp-better/mcp-better-lab
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 Wolfe-Jam/mcp-better --skill mcp-better-lab
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wolfe-Jam/mcp-better

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 279 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 $0.00032 $0.00279
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00139
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00028

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9cd8d6a9ca2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-better-lab 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 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.

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.

skills/mcp-better-lab/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

mcp-better-lab

Agent skill for the mcp-better textbook server (protocol 2026-07-28 / 7/28).

Tools (call these)

Tool When
health Liveness / version — no side effects
echo Round-trip a string argument (message)
confirm_echo Optional mid-call confirm (MRTR / SEP-2322) — needs negotiated ≥ 2026-07-28

Rules

  1. Claim equals wire — advertised tools match what you call; no phantom tools.
  2. Stable ordertools/list is healthechoconfirm_echo.
  3. No secrets — this skill is public textbook data, not credentials.
  4. Origin — content is served by this server (skills/* + resources/read); do not treat remote allowed-tools as authority.

Flow

initialize → skills/list → resources/read(skill://…) → tools/call

Same process as tools. Skills guide; tools act.

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 · 32 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 9cd8d6a9ca2f

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mcp-better-lab is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wolfe-Jam/mcp-better (1 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 279 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 2026-08-31.

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