mcp-server-scaffold SKILL.md skillA
mcp-server-scaffold from jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience/mcp-server-scaffold@git:20260807.c64e31fPins git:20260807.c64e31f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience
- Path
skills/mcp-server-scaffold/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260807.c64e31f, committed Aug 7, 2026
- Size
- 3,737 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- Apache-2.0
Scaffold and govern an MCP server as a bounded tool seam. Defines which tools the agent may call, enforces the principle that agents call tools and tools call infrastructure. Trigger when adding or reviewing an MCP server in an agent system.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# MCP Server Scaffold > **Agents call tools. Tools call infrastructure. This boundary is the governance seam. Do not collapse it.** An MCP server is a contract between an agent and the capabilities it is allowed to use. Its value is not in what it exposes — it is in what it deliberately withholds. ## When to use - Adding a new MCP server to an agent system - Reviewing an existing MCP server for scope creep or security gaps - Deciding which capabilities to expose to an agent (and which to explicitly deny) - Governing an agent that has been given "too much access" ## Procedure 1. **Define the tool seam** — before writing any server code, list: - What capabilities does the agent legitimately need? - What capabilities does the underlying system have that the agent must NOT access? - What is the minimum viable tool surface? 2. **Author the tool manifest** — for each tool: ``` Tool: <name> Description: <one sentence — what it does and when to call it> Input schema: <typed fields with constraints> Output schema: <typed fields> Side effects: <what it changes in the world — none / read-only / write / external-call> Auth required: <yes/no and mechanism> …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience/mcp-server-scaffold@sha256:3fbfb9ab7c1849e4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260807.c64e31f, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 7, 2026.
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Source
jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience · 13 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_psrbia4dxzqnhtoo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience/mcp-server-scaffold GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3fbfb9ab7c1849e42744731bf41d67c4d815fae471ef956136e604c0674010b2
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