# Skillsmith

A team-scoped registry for agent skills: publish with versions, scan for risk, track what actually gets used. Useful once more than one team ships skills.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI · ★ 77
- Author: smith-horn
- License: not stated · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/smith-horn/skillsmith
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/skillsmith

## What it does

Skillsmith keeps agent skills in a registry scoped to your team. Versions are immutable, so drift between installs shows up instead of staying silent. Skills that get flagged or look suspicious are quarantined pending a security review, and stale ones can be deprecated rather than left to rot in someone's repo.

It runs as an MCP server. Claude takes a single command; Cursor and Copilot get JSON snippets, Codex gets TOML. In Cursor the bundled Node can't resolve packages through `npx` and throws `ENOENT`, so you point `command` at the installed binary instead: run `npm install -g @skillsmith/mcp-server`, then `which skillsmith-mcp` and paste that path. Cursor 2.4+ and Node >=22.22 are required.

An API key is optional. Without one the server falls back to a built-in public key and runs at Community rate, sharing a 30/min bucket per endpoint with every other keyless client. A key raises the limits and turns on usage tracking; get one through `skillsmith login` or the account page. Put the key in your MCP client settings, not in chat.

## Requirements
- Needs: Node.js (commands run via npx)

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Platform CLI**
```bash
claude mcp add skillsmith -- npx -y @skillsmith/mcp-server
```

### Codex

**Platform CLI**
```bash
codex mcp add skillsmith -- npx -y @skillsmith/mcp-server
```

### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "skillsmith": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "@skillsmith/mcp-server"
            ]
        }
    }
}
```

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "skillsmith": {
            "type": "stdio",
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "@skillsmith/mcp-server"
            ]
        }
    }
}
```

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini mcp add skillsmith npx -y @skillsmith/mcp-server
```

## When to use it
- see which version of a skill is installed where
- send a suspicious skill to review before anyone installs it
- deprecate a stale skill instead of deleting it quietly
- track which skills the team actually uses
- share one skill set across several agents

## Example prompts
- Search the registry for testing skills and list their versions
- Publish this skill to our team registry
- Show me which skills we've deprecated or stopped maintaining

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