Skillsmith

smith-horn/skillsmith

Skillsmith is the canonical lifecycle manager for agent skills (SKILL.md format) across any MCP-capable agent runtime — Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Windsurf. Discover, evaluate, install, use, maintain, author, govern, retire skills. Triggers: 'use Skillsmith', 'ask Skillsmith', 'search Skillsmith', 'find a Skillsmith skill', 'install with Skillsmith', 'Skillsmith trust tier', 'Skillsmith audit', 'create a skill with Skillsmith', 'publish to Skillsmith', 'Skillsmith quota', 'pin a Skillsmith skill', 'compare Skillsmith skills'. Routes natural-language requests to Skillsmith MCP tools and CLI commands.

2k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/smith-horn/skillsmith --skill Skillsmith

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take smith-horn/skillsmith from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.