mcp-server-patterns

mcp-server-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ysyecust/everything-claude-code. It costs 44 tokens per session (876 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of mcp-server-patterns, MIT.

A guide for building MCP servers with Node.js and TypeScript. MCP, or Model Context Protocol, is a way for AI assistants to call tools, read data, and use reusable prompts provided by a server.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps add callable tools, resources, and prompts; validate inputs with Zod; choose local standard-input communication or remote streaming HTTP; and debug MCP server integrations.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose how the server communicates and avoid registration, validation, and SDK-version mistakes. It also clarifies the difference between actions, read-only data, and prompt templates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the ecc plugin — 37 skills, 3 commands, 17 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps add callable tools, resources, and prompts; validate inputs with Zod; choose local standard-input communication or remote streaming HTTP; and debug MCP server integrations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ysyecust/everything-claude-code/mcp-server-patterns
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 ysyecust/everything-claude-code --skill mcp-server-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ysyecust/everything-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ecc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 3 commands, 17 agents.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 876 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 94% 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 $0.00044 $0.00876
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00350
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00088

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6f95756b3de7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-server-patterns 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 1mo 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

94% identical to mcp-server-patterns — 3 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.

.agents/skills/mcp-server-patterns/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Server Patterns

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets AI assistants call tools, read resources, and use prompts from your server. Use this skill when building or maintaining MCP servers. The SDK API evolves; check Context7 (query-docs for "MCP") or the official MCP documentation for current method names and signatures.

When to Use

Use when: implementing a new MCP server, adding tools or resources, choosing stdio vs HTTP, upgrading the SDK, or debugging MCP registration and transport issues.

How It Works

Core concepts

  • Tools: Actions the model can invoke (e.g. search, run a command). Register with registerTool() or tool() depending on SDK version.
  • Resources: Read-only data the model can fetch (e.g. file contents, API responses). Register with registerResource() or resource(). Handlers typically receive a uri argument.
  • Prompts: Reusable, parameterised prompt templates the client can surface (e.g. in Claude Desktop). Register with registerPrompt() or equivalent.
  • Transport: stdio for local clients (e.g. Claude Desktop); Streamable HTTP is preferred for remote (Cursor, cloud). Legacy HTTP/SSE is for backward compatibility.

The Node/TypeScript SDK may expose tool() / resource() or registerTool() / registerResource(); the official SDK has changed over time. Always verify against the current MCP docs or Context7.

Connecting with stdio

For local clients, create a stdio transport and pass it to your server’s connect method. The exact API varies by SDK version (e.g. constructor vs factory). See the official MCP documentation or query Context7 for "MCP stdio server" for the current pattern.

Keep server logic (tools + resources) independent of transport so you can plug in stdio or HTTP in the entrypoint.

Remote (Streamable HTTP)

For Cursor, cloud, or other remote clients, use Streamable HTTP (single MCP HTTP endpoint per current spec). Support legacy HTTP/SSE only when backward compatibility is required.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 67 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 6f95756b3de7

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mcp-server-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository ysyecust/everything-claude-code (56 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 876 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to mcp-server-patterns, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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