using-the-mcp-server

using-the-mcp-server is a skill for Claude Code from xberg-io/tree-sitter-language-pack. It costs 62 tokens per session (746 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for using the tree-sitter-language-pack MCP server, which exposes source-code parsing as callable tools for compatible clients. MCP is a standard connection method between an AI coding tool and an external service.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for parsing source code, detecting its programming language, extracting structure, and managing the server's connection and parser setup.
Why use it?
It explains which tools to use and how the server finds or installs the parser program. This avoids manually invoking the command line and helps prevent problems caused by an outdated parser.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the tree-sitter-language-pack plugin — 7 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for parsing source code, detecting its programming language, extracting structure, and managing the server's connection and parser setup.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xberg-io/tree-sitter-language-pack/using-the-mcp-server
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add xberg-io/tree-sitter-language-pack --skill using-the-mcp-server
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xberg-io/tree-sitter-language-pack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tree-sitter-language-pack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 746 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00062 $0.00746
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00373
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00075

Measured 9d ago against content hash a98b8b71fbbc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-the-mcp-server 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.

plugin/.ai-rulez/skills/using-the-mcp-server/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using the MCP Server

The tree-sitter-language-pack MCP server exposes ts-pack's parsing and code-intelligence capabilities as MCP tools, so an MCP-compatible client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop) can parse source, extract structure, and detect languages directly, with no CLI invocation or glue code.

How it runs in this plugin

The plugin auto-registers the server. Its command is the bundled launcher scripts/mcp-launch.sh, which execs ts-pack mcp. On first run the launcher resolves a ts-pack binary: it reuses one already on PATH or cached in the plugin's bin/, then tries npx/uvx, then Homebrew, then downloads a prebuilt from the tool's latest GitHub release. Override the channel with TS_PACK_LAUNCHER=auto|npx|uvx|brew|download.

The mcp subcommand ships in a recent release of the tool. If an older ts-pack is already on PATH, it may not expose mcp yet — upgrade the binary (brew upgrade, re-download, or rebuild) to pick it up.

To run it manually:

ts-pack mcp        # for Claude Code / Claude Desktop (stdio)

The tools

Parsing and code intelligence:

  • parse — syntax tree from source; requires an explicit language, with optional format (sexp or json). It does not detect language from a path — use detect_language first if you only have a path.
  • process — code intelligence: structure, imports, exports, symbols, docstrings, comments, diagnostics, chunks. Use all flag to enable all features.
  • detect_language — identify language by path or content (those are the only two parameters; extension detection is implicit in path).

Language and cache management:

  • list_languages — available, downloaded, or manifest languages; optional filter by name.
  • info — show language availability and cache status.
  • download — prefetch parsers: specific languages, language groups, all, or fresh updates.
  • cache_dir — return the cache directory path.
  • clean_cache — remove all cached parsers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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 · 73 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A a98b8b71fbbc

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using-the-mcp-server is a skill published in the GitHub repository xberg-io/tree-sitter-language-pack (464 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 746 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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