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Skillsmith runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 687 installs a week from npm. Last commit 18 Sep 2026.

Share agent skills across your team, scan them for risk, and track what's actually used.

Installs per day peak 386 · avg 74 · +187% w/w
a month agotoday
687
Installs / week
npm · @skillsmith/mcp-server
78
Stars
29 open issues
18 Sep 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
TypeScript

What the code does

We read the source, 18 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

Deletes files or strips permissions packages/doc-retrieval-mcp/src/server.ts:151
        '    docker exec skillsmith-dev-1 sh -c "sh scripts/lib/node-modules-mount-gate.sh && rm -rf /app/packages/doc-retrieval-mcp/node_modules/zod && npm install"\n\n' +
Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

  'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJzdXBhYmFzZSIsInJlZiI6InZyY256cG1uZHRyb3F4eG9xa3p5Iiwicm9sZSI6ImFub24iLCJpYXQiOjE3Njc4MzgwNzQsImV4cCI6MjA4MzQxNDA3NH0.WNK5jaNG3twxApOva5A1ZlCaZb5hVqBYtNJezRrR4t8'
Checks whether it runs in a sandbox packages/doc-retrieval-mcp/src/retrieval-log/probe.ts:94
  return process.env.IS_DOCKER === 'true' && !existsSync('/.dockerenv')
File ships in the package but is absent from the source [пакет] src/assets/agent-pack/hooks/claude-code/session-end.sh:1, [пакет] src/assets/agent-pack/hooks/codex/session-end.sh:1, [пакет] src/assets/agent-pack/hooks/cursor/session-end.sh:1 и ещё 3
этот файл ставится пользователю, но в репозитории его нет
Sends data to a third-party sink packages/core/src/security/scanner/patterns.ts:34
  'pastebin.com',
Dumps the whole environment packages/website/astro.config.mjs:178
      'import.meta.env.PUBLIC_API_BASE_URL': JSON.stringify(
        process.env.PUBLIC_API_BASE_URL || 'https://api.skillsmith.app'
const SSH_DIR_PATTERN = /~\/\.ssh/i
In the project's build, not in the package

Found in continuous integration, deployment or infrastructure files, or in a neighbouring package of the same monorepo. None of this is installed when you add the server: it describes how the project is built and released. We list it because a leaked key in a build pipeline is still a real problem, but it is not something this server does on your machine.

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch Skillsmith and you get told the day something new turns up.

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Connect this server

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 skillsmith -- npx -y @skillsmith/mcp-server
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skillsmith": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@skillsmith/mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.skillsmith]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@skillsmith/mcp-server"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skillsmith": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@skillsmith/mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skillsmith": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@skillsmith/mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Skillsmith — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Skillsmith?
Skillsmith 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 @skillsmith/mcp-server was installed 687 times last week.
How do I connect Skillsmith?
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 @skillsmith/mcp-server straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Skillsmith?
The npm package @skillsmith/mcp-server was installed 687 times in the last week. Week over week that is +187%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Skillsmith open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript, 78 stars on GitHub and 29 open issues, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.