MCP Integration
This skill should be used when the user asks to "add MCP server", "integrate MCP", "configure MCP in plugin", "use .mcp.json", "set up Model Context Protocol", "connect external service", mentions "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} with MCP", or discusses MCP server types (SSE, stdio, HTTP,
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Risk: High
Source: Claude Code Plugin Skills
Path: plugins/plugin-dev/skills/mcp-integration/SKILL.md
Review flags: browser/session access, credential or secret references, network access or external URLs, shell command snippets. These are review signals, not definitive security judgments; inspect before installing.
Required permissions
- • Environment variables / secrets
- • Shell commands
- • Network/API usage
- • Browser/session access
Permissions are inferred from SKILL.md text only. They are review prompts, not guarantees about runtime behavior.
Risk flags explained
Mentions browser automation, cookies, sessions, local storage, or browser state.
Mentions tokens, API keys, passwords, or private-key style environment variables.
Mentions external URLs, network APIs, downloads, or HTTP client usage.
Contains shell command snippets. Review commands before copy/paste or agent execution.
Score explanation
Trust
- • Trust starts at 90 before review-signal penalties and metadata bonuses.
- • Risk-signal penalty: -48 from 4 detected flag(s).
- • Metadata bonus: +5 from author/version/description fields.
Utility
- • Utility starts at 55 and rewards clear descriptions, runnable examples, and explicit setup needs.
- • Description present: yes.
- • Command examples detected: 0.
- • Environment variables detected: 5.
Momentum
- • Momentum starts at 45 and uses public repo activity signals.
- • Recent commit activity: latest repo update was 0 day(s) ago.
- • Recent commit volume: 39 commit(s) in the lookback window (+20).
- • Source has strong public adoption: 133579 stars.
- • Fork activity suggests reuse: 21599 forks.
Overall
- • Overall score weights trust 45%, utility 35%, and momentum 20%.
Detected signals
Env vars
- • API
- • API_KEY
- • API_TOKEN
- • MY_API_KEY
- • TOKEN
Commands
None detected in SKILL.md text scan.
URLs
- • http://mcp.example.com/sse
- • https://api.example.com
- • https://api.example.com/mcp
- • https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/mcp
- • https://mcp.asana.com/sse
- • https://mcp.example.com/sse
- • https://mcp.github.com/sse
- • https://mcp.jira.com/sse
- • https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
Provenance & evidence
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Evidence snippets
…"url": "https://api.example.com/mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${API_TOKEN}", "X-Custom-Header": "value" } } } ``` **Use cases:** - REST API-based MCP…
…cloud services. **Configuration:** ```json { "asana": { "type": "sse", "url": "https://mcp.asana.com/sse" } } ``` **Use cases:** - Official hosted MCP servers (Asana, GitHub,…
…on { "type": "sse", "url": "https://mcp.example.com/sse" } ``` User authenticates in browser on first use. No additional configuration needed. ### Token-Based (Headers) Static or e…
…rver-filesystem", "/allowed/path"], "env": { "LOG_LEVEL": "debug" } } } ``` **Use cases:** - File system access - Local database connections - Custom MCP servers - NPM-packaged MCP servers **Process management:** - Claude Code spawns and manages the process -
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