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Skylight MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 425 installs a week from npm. Last commit 15 Sep 2026.

Skylight Calendar for Claude — family events, chores, and rewards.

Installs per day peak 225 · avg 36 · +9% w/w
a month agotoday
425
Installs / week
npm · skylight-mcp
10
Stars
2 open issues
15 Sep 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Skylight MCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add skylight-mcp -- npx -y skylight-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skylight-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "skylight-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.skylight-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "skylight-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skylight-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "skylight-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skylight-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "skylight-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: SKYLIGHT_REFRESH_TOKEN (An OAuth refresh token you already hold. Supply this and no password is needed — the login is skipped entirely.), SKYLIGHT_EMAIL (Skylight account email. Pair with SKYLIGHT_PASSWORD for direct login. Needed only if you are not supplying SKYLIGHT_REFRESH_TOKEN.), SKYLIGHT_PASSWORD (Skylight account password — required iff SKYLIGHT_EMAIL is set. Needed only if you are not supplying SKYLIGHT_REFRESH_TOKEN.), SKYLIGHT_FRAME_ID (Optional: pick a specific Skylight frame when the account has more than one.), SKYLIGHT_NAME (Friendly account name used in startup logs.), SKYLIGHT_TOKEN_CACHE (Set to false to disable the on-disk token cache and re-authenticate on every process start. Defaults to enabled.), SKYLIGHT_TOKEN_FILE (Absolute path for the token cache file. Defaults to $MCP_DATA_DIR/.skylight-mcp/tokens.json.), SKYLIGHT_BASE_URL (Override the API base (default https://app.ourskylight.com/api). The auth origin is derived from it, so pointing this elsewhere moves the login flow too — and the new host must be added to the registration’s egress allowlist, or every call is blocked.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Skylight MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Skylight MCP?
Skylight MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package skylight-mcp was installed 425 times last week.
How do I connect Skylight MCP?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls skylight-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Skylight MCP?
The npm package skylight-mcp was installed 425 times in the last week. Week over week that is +9%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Skylight MCP open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 10 stars on GitHub and 2 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.