🔍 Skills Search MCP

A powerful MCP server that brings the skills.sh ecosystem directly to your AI agents

✨ Why Skills Search MCP?

"The best AI agents are those with the right skills."

Finding and installing the right skills for your AI agents shouldn't be a manual research project. Skills Search MCP bridges your AI agents directly to the open-source skills ecosystem, making it effortless to discover, install, and manage skills—all from within your agent workflow.

Related MCP server: aiskillstore

🚀 Features

• 🔎 Smart Discovery — Search skills by technologies (React, Python, Docker, etc.) or task domains (testing, deployment, linting)

• 📦 Full Management — Install, uninstall, and update skills without leaving your agent

• ⚡ Parallel Search — Lightning-fast async searches across multiple technologies

• 🎯 Type-Safe — Built with Pydantic for robust input validation

• 🧹 Clean Output — Automatically strips ANSI codes for readable responses

• 🔌 Universal CLI Access — Run any skills command directly when needed

📋 Available Tools

🛠️ Installation

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10+

• Node.js & npm (for the skills CLI)

Install Dependencies

pip install fastmcp pydantic

Or with uv:

uv pip install fastmcp pydantic

Install the Skills CLI (if you haven't)

npm install -g @modelcontextprotocol/skills

⚡ Quick Start

1. Run the Server

PYTHONPATH=src python3 src/skills_search_mcp/server.py

2. Connect to Claude Desktop (macOS)

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skills-search": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["-P", "/path/to/skills-mcp/src", "src/skills_search_mcp/server.py"]
    }
  }
}

3. Connect to Cursor

Add to Cursor settings (or cursor.mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skills-search": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["-P", "/path/to/skills-mcp/src", "src/skills_search_mcp/server.py"]
    }
  }
}

💡 Usage Examples

Find React Skills

find_useful_skills(technologies=["react"])

Find Testing Skills for Python

find_useful_skills(technologies=["python"], task_domain="testing")

List Installed Skills

list_installed_skills()

Install a Skill

install_skill(skill_url="vercel-labs/agent-skills@vercel-react-best-practices")

Check for Updates

update_skills(update_all=True)

🔧 Configuration

Environment Variables

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Here's how you can help:

1. Fork the repository

2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)

3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')

4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)

5. Open a Pull Request

📚 Resources

• skills.sh — Browse the skills ecosystem

• MCP Documentation — Learn about MCP

• FastMCP — Python SDK

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