Skill

centaur

Name: centaur
Author: Paradigm

call team-approved tools via Centaur

Published by Paradigm Updated Sep 3

Covers Permissions MCP Engineering

Description

Use an authenticated Centaur MCP deployment to discover and call team-approved tools. Use when a task requires Centaur, its tool catalog, or the user's Centaur identity and permissions.

SKILL.md

Centaur

Use Centaur's MCP tools for actions and context exposed by the user's deployment.

Workflow

When identity or authorization matters, call centaur_whoami before other Centaur tools.
Choose the narrowest Centaur tool that satisfies the request.
Each tool package accepts a method and an arguments object. If its methods or parameters are unclear, call that tool with method: "help" first.
Treat the MCP tool description and help result as the current contract. Do not guess method names or parameters.
Summarize consequential writes and return relevant identifiers or links.

Centaur authorizes calls using the signed-in principal's live roles and grants. Never request, paste, print, or store Centaur OAuth tokens.

Connection recovery

If no Centaur tools are available, explain that the client still needs the deployment-specific MCP endpoint.

Codex: register it with codex mcp add centaur --url <CENTAUR_MCP_URL>, then run codex mcp login centaur. The --url flag is required for Streamable HTTP and OAuth.
Claude Code: configure the plugin's mcp_url, open /mcp, and authenticate the centaur server.
Other MCP clients: configure a remote HTTP server named centaur with the deployment's /mcp URL and complete its OAuth flow.

Do not substitute a guessed hostname. Ask for the deployment URL when it is not already configured or supplied.