AgentSkills MCP: Bringing Anthropic's Agent Skills to Any MCP-compatible Agent

📖 Project Overview

Agent Skills is a new function recently introduced by Anthropic. By packaging specialized skills into modular resources, it allows Claude to transform on demand into a “tailored expert” suited to any scenario. AgentSkills MCP, built on the FlowLLM framework, unlocks Claude’s proprietary Agent Skills for any MCP-compatible agent. It implements the Progressive Disclosure architecture proposed in Anthropic’s official Agent Skills engineering blog, enabling agents to load necessary skills as needed, thereby efficiently utilizing limited context windows.

💡 Why Choose AgentSkills MCP?

• ✅ Zero-Code Configuration: one-command install (pip install mcp-agentskills)

• ✅ Out-of-the-Box: uses official Skill format and fully compatible with Anthropic’s Agent Skills

• ✅ MCP Support: multiple transports (stdio/SSE/HTTP), works with any MCP-compatible agent

• ✅ Flexible Skill Path: custom skill directories with automatic detection, parsing, and loading

🔥 Latest Updates

• [2025-12] 🎉 Released mcp-agentskills v0.1.1

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

Install AgentSkills MCP with pip:

pip install mcp-agentskills

Or with uv:

uv pip install mcp-agentskills

git clone https://github.com/zouyingcao/agentskills-mcp.git
cd agentskills-mcp

conda create -n agentskills-mcp python==3.10
conda activate agentskills-mcp
pip install -e .

Load Skills

1. Create a directory to store Skills, like:

mkdir skills

2. Clone from open-source GitHub repositories, e.g.,

https://github.com/anthropics/skills
https://github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills

3. Add the collected Skills into the directory created in step 1. Each Skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file.

Run

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agentskills-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "agentskills-mcp",
        "config=default",
        "mcp.transport=stdio",
        "metadata.skill_dir=\"./skills\""
      ],
      "env": {
        "FLOW_LLM_API_KEY": "xxx",
        "FLOW_LLM_BASE_URL": "https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1"
      }
    }
  }
}

- Step 1: Configure Environment Variables

Copy example.env to .env and fill in your API key:

cp example.env .env
# Edit the .env file and fill in your API key

- Step 2: Start the Server

Start the AgentSkills MCP server with SSE transport:

agentskills-mcp \
  config=default \
  mcp.transport=sse \
  mcp.host=0.0.0.0 \
  mcp.port=8001 \
  metadata.skill_dir="./skills"

The service will be available at: http://0.0.0.0:8001/sse

- Step 3: Connect from MCP Client

• Add this configuration to your MCP client (Cursor, Gemini Code, Cline, etc.) to connect to the remote SSE server:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agentskills-mcp": {
      "type": "sse",
      "url": "http://0.0.0.0:8001/sse"
    }
  }
}

• You can also use the FastMCP Python client to directly access the server:

import asyncio
from fastmcp import Client


async def main():
    async with Client("http://0.0.0.0:8001/sse") as client:
        tools = await client.list_tools()
        for tool in tools:
            print(tool)

        result = await client.call_tool(
            name="load_skill",
            arguments={
              "skill_name"="pdf"
            }
        )
        print(result)


asyncio.run(main())

One-Command Test

python tests/run_project_sse.py <path/to/skills>
or
python tests/run_project_http.py <path/to/skills>

Demo

After starting the AgentSkills MCP server with the SSE transport, you can run the demo:

# Enable Agent Skills for the Qwen model.
# Since Qwen supports function calling, you can implement Agent Skills by passing the MCP tools registered by the AgentSkills MCP service to the tools parameter.
cd tests
python run_skill_agent.py

🔧 MCP Tools

This service provides four tools to support Agent Skills:

• load_skill_metadata_op — Loads the names and descriptions of all Skills into the agent context at startup (always called)

• load_skill_op — When a specific skill is needed, loads the SKILL.md content by skill name (invoked when triggering the Skill)

• read_reference_file_op — Reads specific files from a skill, such as scripts or reference documents (on demand)

• run_shell_command_op — Executes shell commands to run executable scripts included in the skill (on demand)

For detailed parameters and usage examples, see the documentation.

⚙️ Server Configuration Parameters

For the full set of available options and defaults, refer to default.yaml.

Environment Variables

🤝 Contributing

We welcome community contributions! To get started:

1. Install the package in development mode:

pip install -e .

2. Install pre-commit hooks:

pip install pre-commit
pre-commit run --all-files

3. Submit a pull request with your changes.

📚 Learn More

• Anthropic Agent Skills Documentation

• Anthropic Engineering Blog

• Claude Agent Skills: A First Principles Deep Dive

• FlowLLM Documentation

• MCP Documentation

⚖️ License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 — see LICENSE for details.

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