Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools. Use when building MCP servers to integrate external APIs or services, whether in Python (FastMCP) or Node/TypeScript (MCP SDK).
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2.21xAverage score across 10 eval scenarios
Low
Low-risk findings worth noting
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Low
Low-risk findings.
2 low severity findings. Worth noting, but not necessarily harmful.
The skill exposes the agent to untrusted, user-generated content from public third-party sources, creating a risk of indirect prompt injection. This includes browsing arbitrary URLs, reading social media posts or forum comments, and analyzing content from unknown websites.
The SKILL.md explicitly instructs the developer/agent to fetch and read public web resources (e.g., https://modelcontextprotocol.io/sitemap.xml and raw GitHub URLs like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/main/README.md) using WebFetch/web search as part of the required Phase 1 research, meaning untrusted third-party content would be ingested and could influence subsequent tool design and actions.
The skill fetches instructions or code from an external URL at runtime, and the fetched content directly controls the agent’s prompts or executes code. This dynamic dependency allows the external source to modify the agent’s behavior without any changes to the skill itself.
The skill explicitly instructs the agent to WebFetch runtime markdown from external URLs (e.g., https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/main/README.md and https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/main/README.md and https://modelcontextprotocol.io/sitemap.xml) to load SDK/spec pages that would directly inform/drive agent behavior, so these runtime fetches of external content can control prompts/instructions.
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