mcp-builder

mcp-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zebbern/termstack. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,998 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for building MCP servers, which let AI models use tools connected to outside services. It covers implementations in Python and TypeScript.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when connecting an AI model to an external API or service through a Python or Node/TypeScript MCP server.
Why use it?
It helps developers design those tools and integrations consistently instead of working out the MCP server structure from scratch.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when connecting an AI model to an external API or service through a Python or Node/TypeScript MCP server.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zebbern/termstack/mcp-builder
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 zebbern/termstack --skill mcp-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/termstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for mcp-builder

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for mcp-builder

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,998 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 unknown 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 $0.00061 $0.01998
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00799
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00200

Measured 1mo ago against content hash afc54709a6c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-builder 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/connections.py, scripts/evaluation.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.github/skills/mcp-builder/SKILL.md · 249 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 249 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A afc54709a6c5

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mcp-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository zebbern/termstack (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,998 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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