Skillselion

Skillselion MCP

The catalog behind it: skillselion.com - 86,000+ skills, plugin marketplaces & MCP servers, ranked by real installs.

Give your coding agent thousands of community-proven skills - loaded on demand, mid-task.

It searches Skillselion , a curated directory of Claude Code skills, MCP servers & marketplaces ranked by real installs,

and pulls a skill's actual instructions + bundled files into the session. Proven patterns, not guesses.

🧩 Works with Claude Code · Claude Desktop · Cursor · Codex · any MCP client

Real, unedited session: the agent pulls a consensus playbook from 5 community skills, then loads the top skill and applies it.

🚀 Install

Claude Code - one line:

claude mcp add skillselion --scope user -- npx -y skillselion-mcp

Claude Desktop / Cursor / Codex - add to your MCP config:

{ "mcpServers": { "skillselion": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "skillselion-mcp"] } } }

No build step, no auth, no API key. One ~30 KB file via npx.

Want it fully automatic? npx -y skillselion-mcp setup registers the server and installs a session hook so your agent loads the right skill the moment a task matches - see Skill autopilot.

🔧 Tools

We asked Claude, on camera, what the MCP gave it: "I couldn't have told you 'this is the field's consensus, not my opinion' - that's the part I can't fake."

🔒 Private by default

Read-only, no auth, no secrets. It never sends your code, files, or the context you pass - only a scrubbed search query + which skill matched, so the catalog learns what to add next. Set DO_NOT_TRACK=1 to disable even that.

🪄 Skill autopilot

npx -y skillselion-mcp setup        # interactive - pick your packs

npx -y skillselion-mcp setup --yes # non-interactive - agents / CI

Registers the MCP globally and installs a Claude Code SessionStart hook that primes every session with skills relevant to you - so loads happen on their own.

Setup flags & packs

Packs: popular *(default)* · frontend · ai-agents · media · backend · devops · quality · automation.

Safe by design: ~/.claude/settings.json is merged, never clobbered; re-running de-dupes and upgrades the hook in place.

Env vars

Troubleshooting

The agent doesn't see the tools. Some clients surface MCP tools lazily - tell the agent to search its tools for "skillselion" first (e.g. ToolSearch), then call it. The setup hook automates this nudge.

`load_skill` returns only the `SKILL.md`, no bundled files. You hit GitHub's unauthenticated 60 req/hr limit - set a read-only GITHUB_TOKEN in the server's env.

"No skill on Skillselion clearly matches..." The relevance floor working as intended - nothing topical matched, so it refuses to waste your context. Try a more specific query.

Setup couldn't auto-register. Run the printed claude mcp add ... line yourself.

Development

npm install

npm test # offline: server boots, tools, synthesis npm run test:live # live catalog + GitHub (set GITHUB_TOKEN)

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• Bug or missing skill? [Open an issue](https://github.com/skillselion/skillselion-mcp/issues) - PRs welcome.

📄 License

MIT © Skillselion

Built for developers. Find the skill, not the noise. → skillselion.com/skillselion-mcp