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BytesAgain MCP Server

bytesagain/mcp-server MCP server

Search 60,000+ AI agent skills directly from any MCP-compatible agent.

Overview

BytesAgain is a free MCP server for discovering AI agent skills and workflow use cases across ClawHub, LobeHub, Dify, GitHub-indexed skills, and the BytesAgain curated catalog.

This repository contains a real stdio MCP server wrapper. It exposes compact tools to agents and forwards read-only requests to the public BytesAgain API at https://bytesagain.com/api/mcp.

MCP Tools

Tool

When to use

Returns

search_skills

Find AI skills for a concrete task, keyword, domain, or integration request. Supports English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Ranked skill summaries with slug, name, description, category, tags, downloads, owner, and relevance fields.

get_skill

Fetch full details for a specific slug returned by search_skills or popular_skills.

Detailed skill metadata, install/source links, category, tags, owner, downloads, stars, and related fields when available.

popular_skills

Browse trending or high-download skills when the user has no specific task in mind.

Top skills ranked by downloads.

search_use_cases

Search workflow/use-case pages such as “write weekly reports”, “build dashboards”, or “automate ecommerce listings”.

Use-case pages and descriptions that map real-world tasks to relevant skills.

Install

Run with npx

npx -y --package github:bytesagain/mcp-server bytesagain-mcp

Run from source

git clone https://github.com/bytesagain/mcp-server.git
cd mcp-server
npm install
npm start

Docker

docker build -t bytesagain-mcp .
docker run --rm -i bytesagain-mcp

Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bytesagain": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "--package", "github:bytesagain/mcp-server", "bytesagain-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Environment variables

Variable

Default

Description

BYTESAGAIN_API_BASE

https://bytesagain.com/api/mcp

Optional override for the public BytesAgain API endpoint.

No API key is required. The server is read-only and does not write to BytesAgain, GitHub, Glama, or third-party services.

Public endpoints

Development

npm install
npm test

The smoke test starts the MCP server over stdio and verifies that the tool list is exposed correctly.

License

MIT

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license - permissive license
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quality - not tested
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maintenance

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