protect-mcp-setup

wshobson/agents Agent tooling

protect-mcp-setup is a skill in wshobson/agents, last changed 26 Sept 2026. It can run shell commands and name web addresses.

From the author

Configure Cedar policy enforcement and Ed25519 signed receipts for Claude Code tool calls. Use when setting up projects that need cryptographic audit trails, policy-gated tool execution, or compliance-ready evidence of agent actions.

How much a skill can do, not whether it is risky.

Pattern check

Nothing flagged

That isn't proof the skill is harmless.

Commit 7e2fb55 · 3 Nov 2026

How the check works

Pattern check: nothing flagged

That isn't proof the skill is harmless.

Install

Each tab says whether it installs commit 7e2fb55, the one we checked, or the latest version.

OpenCode also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

Goose also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

Windsurf (Devin Desktop) also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

Zed also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

Roo Code also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

Factory Droid also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

Junie also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

Amp also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

No install command here reaches Kiro. Copy the skill's folder into .kiro/skills/ in your project, or ~/.kiro/skills/ for all your projects. wshobson/agents/plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup (opens in a new tab)

Antigravity also looks in .agents/skills/, so the Any agent steps reach it with This project. For All projects, see where Antigravity looks.

Cline also looks in .claude/skills/, so the Claude Code steps reach it with This project. For All projects, see where Cline looks.

No tab for your agent? Use Any agent for OpenCode, Goose, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Zed, Roo Code, Factory Droid, Junie and Amp. With This project, Any agent also reaches Antigravity and Claude Code reaches Cline. Kiro needs the folder copied by hand.

Pinned to commit 7e2fb55, the one we checked.

From your project's root folder:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 &&mkdir -p .claude/skills &&mkdir .claude/skills/protect-mcp-setup &&cp -R "$tmp"/plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup/. .claude/skills/protect-mcp-setup/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"

If Claude Code was already running and this created the skills folder, run /reload-skills.

Or install the protect-mcp plugin it ships in. Installs the latest version, not the one we checked. Installs everything in the plugin, including any hooks, MCP servers and scripts our check doesn't cover.

claude plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents --scope project &&claude plugin install protect-mcp@claude-code-workflows --scope project

Claude Code docs

Pinned to commit 7e2fb55, the one we checked.

Skills in the Claude apps belong to your account rather than to a project.

Make protect-mcp-setup.zip, with the skill folder at the top level:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 &&out="$(mktemp -d)" &&cp -R "$tmp"/plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup "$out"/protect-mcp-setup &&(cd "$out" && zip -qr - protect-mcp-setup) > protect-mcp-setup.zip &&rm -rf "$tmp" "$out"

In Claude, open Customize > Skills, select +, then + Create skill > Upload a skill, and choose protect-mcp-setup.zip.

On Free, Pro and Max plans, turn on Code execution and file creation (Create and edit files in newer settings) under Settings > Capabilities.

Claude apps docs

Pinned to commit 7e2fb55, the one we checked.

From your project's root folder:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 &&mkdir -p .agents/skills &&mkdir .agents/skills/protect-mcp-setup &&cp -R "$tmp"/plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup/. .agents/skills/protect-mcp-setup/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"

Codex picks up new skills on its own; restart it if this one does not appear.

Codex docs

Pinned to commit 7e2fb55, the one we checked.

From your project's root folder:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 &&mkdir -p .cursor/skills &&mkdir .cursor/skills/protect-mcp-setup &&cp -R "$tmp"/plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup/. .cursor/skills/protect-mcp-setup/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"

Cursor docs

Pinned to commit 7e2fb55, the one we checked.

From your project's root folder:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 &&mkdir -p .github/skills &&mkdir .github/skills/protect-mcp-setup &&cp -R "$tmp"/plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup/. .github/skills/protect-mcp-setup/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"

In a running Copilot CLI session, run /skills reload.

Or install it with gh skill, which also installs the commit we checked. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90 or later.

gh skill install wshobson/agents plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup/SKILL.md@7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 --agent github-copilot --scope project

Copilot & VS Code docs

Pinned to commit 7e2fb55, the one we checked.

From your project's root folder:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 &&mkdir -p .gemini/skills &&mkdir .gemini/skills/protect-mcp-setup &&cp -R "$tmp"/plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup/. .gemini/skills/protect-mcp-setup/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"

In a running session, run /skills reload.

Or use Gemini CLI’s own installer. Installs the latest version, not the one we checked.

gemini skills install https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git --path plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup --scope workspace

Gemini CLI docs

Pinned to commit 7e2fb55, the one we checked.

OpenCode, Goose, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Zed, Roo Code, Factory Droid, Junie, Amp and Antigravity read .agents/skills in a project.

From your project's root folder:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 7e2fb559cf4b824b27f1fec49fe88f7511066d26 &&mkdir -p .agents/skills &&mkdir .agents/skills/protect-mcp-setup &&cp -R "$tmp"/plugins/protect-mcp/skills/protect-mcp-setup/. .agents/skills/protect-mcp-setup/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"

Or use the skills CLI from skills.sh. Installs the latest version, not the one we checked. The skills CLI reports installs to skills.sh unless you set DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1.

npx skills@1.7.4 add wshobson/agents --skill protect-mcp-setup

Agent Skills docs

Read SKILL.md first

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Checked

3 Nov 2026

What it can touch

From the files and frontmatter at commit 7e2fb55. This is how much a skill can do, not whether it is risky.

Runs shell commands
Its instructions or files give the agent commands to run on your computer.
Names web addresses
It mentions outside web addresses the agent may visit. We list them but don't follow them.
Outside links we did not follow

Pattern check

Pattern check: nothing flagged · commit 7e2fb55 · 3 Nov 2026

We checked every text file in this skill, at commit 7e2fb55 on 3 Nov 2026, against 45 published patterns such as download-and-run commands, hidden text and credential access. We don't run the skill, we don't read the web pages it points to, and we can't judge everything its instructions might lead an agent to do. In published tests, pattern checks like this one missed most malicious skills. Read the skill before you install it — especially anything it asks you to download or run.

How the check works Report an incorrect finding

Outside links we did not follow

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farley-acta-signed-receipts/
https://www.npmjs.com/package/protect-mcp
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@veritasacta/verify
https://github.com/ScopeBlind/scopeblind-gateway
https://veritasacta.com

Format check

Each agent reads SKILL.md a little differently. We check the file against each one's published rules; we don't run the skill in any agent.

Agent Skills specPasses
The open format from agentskills.io, held to the strictest version of each rule among the agents we check.
- Note
  There is no license field, so readers can't tell whether they may reuse the skill. O2
  Fix: Add license: with an SPDX name such as MIT or Apache-2.0, or the name of a bundled licence file.
Claude CodePasses
Claude apps & API uploadPasses
Uploading to claude.ai or the Claude API, or packaging with Anthropic's script, accepts only the six spec fields and stops on anything else.
- Note
  The description is 233 characters. The claude.ai Help Center says 200 at most, though Anthropic's API docs and validator allow 1,024. D4
  Fix: If the claude.ai upload refuses it, trim the description to 200 characters.
OpenAI (Codex & API)Passes
VS Code & CopilotPasses

SKILL.md

Read SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

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At a glance

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Pattern check

Install

Claude Code

Claude apps

Codex

Cursor

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What it can touch

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Outside links we did not follow

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