hotskills MCP Server

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hotskills is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago.

Search agent skills ranked by GitHub stars, with growth, security signals and pinned installs.

Uptime history 44 hours of history · worst hour 50%

44 hours agonow

96.7%

Uptime 24h

88 of 91 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

67 ms

Response time

average over 24h

API key

Access

streamable-http

hotskills does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 97.5% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add hotskills --transport http https://hotskills.dev/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://hotskills.dev/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.hotskills]
url = "https://hotskills.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hotskills": {
      "url": "https://hotskills.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "hotskills": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hotskills.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, but you need an API key from its owner to call it.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://hotskills.dev/mcp	streamable-http	needs key	53 ms	5 min ago

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hotskills — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for hotskills?

The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 96.7% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.

Is hotskills working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 88 of 91 checks got a reply (96.7%), average response time 67 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect hotskills?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You will need your own key: it refuses anonymous clients.

Does hotskills need an API key?

Yes. Every time we knock, hotskills answers with an authorization challenge instead of its tool list — that is how we know it is running and gated rather than broken. Bring your own credentials and it will talk.

How fast is hotskills?

It answers our handshake in 67 ms on average, which is faster than 99% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.