Skills Board

Name: Skills Board
Author: TommyBez

by TommyBezversion 1.0.0i★ –iRuns in the cloud

Registry nameio.github.TommyBez/skillsboard

Install

Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Search your team's shared AI-skill library, get install commands, and save skills from your agent.

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What you can do with it

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Connection: Runs in the cloud
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Category: Search & AI memory

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 1 of 1 passed
Runs on the maker’s server: what you ask it goes through their server.
The registry lists no key to fill in.

You need

Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Works in Claude on the web, desktop and mobile:

Open Settings → Connectors
Press Add custom connector
Paste the address below and press Add
If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker

https://www.skillsboard.sh/api/mcp

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http skillsboard https://www.skillsboard.sh/api/mcp

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skillsboard": {
      "url": "https://www.skillsboard.sh/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "skillsboard": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.skillsboard.sh/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

ChatGPT connects only to servers on the internet:

Open ChatGPT on the web → Settings → Connectors (Apps)
Press Create or Add (some plans need Developer mode under Advanced first)
Paste the address below, give it a name and save
If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker

https://www.skillsboard.sh/api/mcp

Menu names can differ slightly by plan and over time.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

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Basic checksi

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Sign-in with OAuth
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Compared with others in Search & AI memoryi

More stars than 0% of the other 5759 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 28% of the other 5759 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 5759 servers in this category

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Common questions

Is Skills Board safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (1.0.0) reached the registry 3 months ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

In the same category: Context7, Codebase Memory, Exa

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README from the maker

Open the README

Copied from the maker’s repo as written. PopNx MCP has not reviewed or endorsed it. HTML, images and scripts are removed. Links lead off this site.

Skills Board, the agent-native skills registry for teams. Keep your team's AI skills in one place, so everyone knows where to find and use them.

Try the hosted app · Run it locally · Contribute

Why Skills Board

Useful skills tend to disappear into chats, bookmarks, and personal agent setups. Skills Board gives a team one searchable place to collect them and lets every teammate choose how to use them.

One team library. Save useful skills once, organize them with team-specific tags, and make them easy to find again.
Different agents welcome. Share the same entry across Claude, Codex, Cursor, and other agent setups.
A choice of handoff. Open the original source, copy a compatible install command, or download the latest skill files as a ZIP.
Organization-scoped access. Create a team, invite members, and keep each library available to its members.
Optional MCP access. Connect compatible agents to authenticated, scope-controlled tools for finding and organizing team skills and collections.

[!IMPORTANT]

A saved skill is a team's own choice, not a security review, compatibility certification, or pinned release. Skills Board reads the latest available source; inspect that source before using it in an agent.

How it works

Create a team library and add a skill from its GitHub repository.
Skills Board keeps the original source visible and records the entry for the team.
Teammates search by task, description, repository, or tag.
Each teammate opens the source, copies a compatible command, or downloads the latest files as a ZIP.

The public catalog can help with discovery when the deployment has Vercel OIDC available. The team library and direct GitHub flow remain the core product.

Run locally

Prerequisites

Node.js 20.9 or newer
pnpm 10
PostgreSQL 15 or newer

1. Install the app

git clone https://github.com/TommyBez/skillsboard.git

cd skillsboard corepack enable pnpm install cp .env.example .env.local

Generate a Better Auth secret with openssl rand -base64 32, then add it and your PostgreSQL connection string to .env.local.

2. Prepare the database

Apply the committed Drizzle migrations to a new database. This creates both the Better Auth tables and the application-specific tables from the versioned SQL in drizzle/.

pnpm db:migrate

3. Start developing

pnpm dev

Open http://localhost:3000. Restart the server after changing DATABASE_URL, because the PostgreSQL pool is created when the module loads.

Environment variables

Variable	Required	Purpose
`DATABASE_URL`	Yes	PostgreSQL connection string used by the application; Neon may use the pooled URL here.
`DATABASE_URL_UNPOOLED`	For migrations on Neon	Direct PostgreSQL connection used by Drizzle migrations. It can match `DATABASE_URL` for local, non-pooled Postgres.
`BETTER_AUTH_SECRET`	Yes	Secret used to sign and encrypt authentication data.
`BETTER_AUTH_URL`	Recommended	Public application origin; use `http://localhost:3000` locally.
`CRON_SECRET`	Yes for hosted release cleanup	Dedicated random secret used to authenticate the daily expired collection-release cleanup configured in `vercel.json`.
`RESEND_API_KEY`	Yes outside development	Sends sign-in OTP and team invitation emails through Resend.
`EMAIL_FROM`	Yes outside development	Verified Resend sender for OTP and invitation emails (e.g. `Skills Board` ).
`GITHUB_TOKEN`	No	Raises GitHub API rate limits for metadata and ZIP downloads.
`VERCEL_OIDC_TOKEN`	No	Supplied automatically by Vercel for the optional skills.sh catalog.

Sign-in and sign-up use email one-time codes (no passwords). Outside development, configure both RESEND_API_KEY and a domain-verified EMAIL_FROM; the fallback Resend test sender only works for Resend’s own test recipients. In development, OTP emails are skipped and any 6-digit code works. Without Vercel OIDC, the Discover catalog degrades gracefully while team libraries continue to work.

Hosted deployments run the collection-release retention cleanup once per day. Set CRON_SECRET in the Vercel Production environment before deploying; the endpoint fails closed when the secret is absent. Self-hosted deployments can invoke /api/cron/collection-release-retention from their scheduler with Authorization: Bearer .

MCP access

Skills Board exposes an OAuth-protected MCP endpoint at /api/mcp. After signing in, open Settings → MCP to connect it. The tools can search team skills and collections, retrieve install commands, and discover public or repository skills. With skills:write, they can save new skills and organize collections. They cannot edit or delete saved team skills, install them in an agent, or execute them.

The full contract lives at skillsboard.sh/developers (Markdown at /developers.md): the public endpoints, the OAuth flow, every tool and the scope it needs, and the versioning, error, and rate-limit conventions the HTTP surface follows. The machine-readable index of all of it is /llms.txt.

Official plugin

This repository is also the marketplace for the official Skills Board plugin. The plugin ships the MCP server configuration above and one skill that explains how to use a team library from an agent. It is not tied to one client: the directory in plugin/ carries an Agent Plugins 1.0.0 manifest, and a Claude Code manifest alongside it. Installing it is an alternative to the manual MCP setup above rather than a step after it.

In Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add TommyBez/skillsboard

/plugin install skills-board@skills-board

In any client the plugins CLI supports:

npx plugins add TommyBez/skillsboard

Installing the plugin configures the MCP server. Connecting it still requires signing in to Skills Board and approving the requested scopes in the client.

Tech stack

Layer	Technology
Application	Next.js 16 App Router, React 19, TypeScript
UI	Tailwind CSS 4, shadcn/ui, Base UI
Authentication	Better Auth (email OTP) with organizations and OAuth provider support
Data	PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM
Email	Resend and React Email
Agent access	Model Context Protocol via `mcp-handler`
Hosting	Vercel and Neon in the hosted deployment; self-hosting is supported

Project commands

Command	What it does
`pnpm dev`	Start the Turbopack development server.
`pnpm typecheck`	Run the TypeScript compiler without emitting files.
`pnpm test`	Run the unit tests (`tests/*.test.mjs`) with the Node.js test runner.
`pnpm check`	Run the repository's required local checks: typecheck, then the unit tests.
`pnpm db:generate --name`	Generate a versioned migration after changing the schema.
`pnpm db:check`	Check that the schema and committed migration snapshots match.
`pnpm db:migrate`	Apply pending migrations to the configured database.
`pnpm db:push`	Push the schema only to a throwaway database used for prototyping.
`pnpm build`	Create a production build.
`pnpm start`	Start the production server.
`pnpm email`	Preview React Email templates on port 3001.
`pnpm dlx shadcn@4.23.0 add`	Add a shadcn/ui or `@remocn` registry component. The shadcn CLI is not a project dependency, so it runs pinned through `pnpm dlx`.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md before making a substantial change, follow the Code of Conduct, and report vulnerabilities through the process in SECURITY.md.

See the people who have helped build Skills Board on the contributors page.

License

Skills Board is available under the MIT License.

Skills Board

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Search & AI memoryi

Common questions

Alternatives

Context7

Codebase Memory

Exa

README from the maker

Why Skills Board

How it works

Run locally

Prerequisites

1. Install the app

2. Prepare the database

3. Start developing

Environment variables

MCP access

Official plugin

Tech stack

Project commands

Contributing

License