SkillsPicker MCP Server

by skillspicker Your server? Claim it

answering

SkillsPicker is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Recommends open-license agent skills (SKILL.md) for a project from its stack and task tags.

Uptime history 20 days of history

20 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

208 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 6

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 19 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

24 Oct 2 tools appeared list_skill_tags, search_skills

24 Oct a tool description was rewritten recommend_skills

24 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for recommend_skills

24 Oct a tool changed version

19 Oct a tool description was rewritten recommend_skills

Nothing serious here today

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

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add recommend --transport http https://skillspicker.com/mcp

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

https://skillspicker.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.recommend]
url = "https://skillspicker.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recommend": {
      "url": "https://skillspicker.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "recommend": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://skillspicker.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

recommend

recommend_skills

Recommend agent skills (SKILL.md) that fit a coding project, for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot or Gemini CLI. Pass stack tags (best), a one line description, or a public GitHub repo URL. With no input it returns a sample for a Next.js project. Returns how many of 90,454 indexed skills fit, 2 free picks with license and install command, and a link to the full ranked list ($9 once). Read-only, no account.

skill

list_skill_tags

List the stack tags (frameworks, languages, services) and task tags (testing, code-review, security and more) that recommend_skills accepts, with the size of the skill index. No input needed. Read-only.

skills

search_skills

Search 90,454 open-license agent skills (SKILL.md) by task, tool or framework, for example "stripe webhooks", "playwright tests", "django admin" or "terraform aws". Returns the match count, the top 2 skills with license and install command, and a link to the full ranked list ($9 once). Read-only, no account.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://skillspicker.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	224 ms	8 min ago

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SkillsPicker — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can SkillsPicker do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: list_skill_tags, recommend_skills, search_skills. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is SkillsPicker working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 208 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect SkillsPicker?

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.

Does SkillsPicker need an API key?

No. SkillsPicker completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is SkillsPicker?

It answers our handshake in 208 ms on average, which is faster than 70% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.