Skillsmith MCP Server

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Published as @skillsmith/mcp-server on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

41 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

[VS Code UX] MCP-powered features (parity Waves 2–4)

Outcome

Extension UI surfaces MCP tools already available in CLI/MCP server: recommend, compare, diff, audit, and team inventory audit.

Why

• McpClient today only wraps search, getSkill, installSkill, uninstallSkill.
• McpClient.patterns.md documents conventions for 30+ wrappers planned in Waves 2–4.
• Align implementation with docs/internal/implementation/vscode-mcp-parity.md (internal submodule).

Reference docs

Read the thread · 2026-06-15 · closed · 4 comments

Security Scan: 0 critical, 1 high findings - 2026-05-10

Weekly Security Scan Report

Scan Date: 2026-05-10T02:35:15Z Workflow Run: #22

Summary

Findings by Severity

Risk Scores

• Average Risk Score: 0
• Maximum Risk Score: 1

Action

Read the thread · 2026-05-10 · closed · external user · 4 comments

[Feature Request] Support Google Antigravity as a first-class client target

Description

Google Antigravity is an agentic AI coding assistant and desktop harness. It supports project-specific configurations under the .agents/ folder at the workspace root:

• Custom skills: <workspace-root>/.agents/skills/<skill-folder>/
• MCP configuration: <workspace-root>/.agents/mcp_config.json

Currently, there is no first-class antigravity target in the --client <id> enum of skillsmith install, forcing users to use the generic --client agents or manually configure h

Read the thread · 2026-07-31 · open · 2 comments

[Bug]: MCP vs CLI trust/security vocabulary mismatch; host fallback noise; audit false positives

Summary

Parent: #2130 · Report IDs: C-15, C-16, C-18, C-19, C-20 (P2)

Consistency and packaging polish from Cursor host installs:

Read the thread · 2026-07-29 · closed · 2 comments

[Docs]: Cursor MCP setup — require client env, Node ≥22.22, prefer binary over cold npx

Summary

Parent: #2130 · Report IDs: C-02, C-03, C-17 (P0 docs / P2 polish)

Minimal Cursor MCP snippets omit SKILLSMITH_CLIENT=cursor, so installs default to Claude paths. Cold npx startup is fragile under Cursor (Node 20 EBADENGINE, intermittent ENOTEMPTY npm cache races). Cursor built-ins vs Skillsmith installs live in different dirs and confuse users.

Problem

Cursor users following the minimal docs snippet miss required client targeting and hit unreliable MCP process boot

Read the thread · 2026-07-29 · closed · 2 comments

Most recent

[UAT] RBAC Permission System — Synthetic E2E (staging, 2026-08-29)

Summary

Synthetic end-to-end UAT of the RBAC permission system (SMI-6200 Enterprise RBAC+SSO initiative, Wave 2-3), run against staging (ref ovhcifugwqnzoebwfuku) via the new re-runnable harness scripts/staging/smi-6267-rbac-uat-e2e.{sh,sql} (SMI-6267, PR #2604, merged e542f2bb6).

Date: 2026-08-29 Environment: Staging Supabase (real, non-mocked RPCs — not a local Postgres container) Result: 33/33 assertions passing, including a deliberate negative control proving the harne

Read the thread · 2026-08-29 · open · 0 comments

[Bug] MCP Search tool ignores the 'limit' parameter

Description

The search tool exposed by the @skillsmith/mcp-server ignores the limit argument in its payload.

Expected Behavior

If limit: 3 is specified, the results array should be truncated to at most 3 items.

Reproduction Steps

1. Call the search tool via the MCP interface with limit: 3 and query: "testing".
2. Notice that the response contains 10 items (the default limit).

Read the thread · 2026-07-31 · closed · 1 comment

[Bug] MCP startup stderr logs hardcoded database path instead of resolved path

Description

The startup diagnostic stderr log in @skillsmith/mcp-server hardcodes the database location to ~/.skillsmith/skills.db: console.error(\Database initialized at: ${process.env.SKILLSMITH_DB_PATH || '~/.skillsmith/skills.db'}`);`

Expected Behavior

It should log the resolved database path (e.g., matching the value returned by getDefaultDbPath() which takes HOME relocations and overrides into account).

Reproduction Steps

1. Run the MCP server with a custom HOME

Read the thread · 2026-07-31 · closed · 1 comment

Design partners wanted: UAT Team-tier private skills (publish_private)

Design partners wanted: UAT Team-tier private skills (publish_private)

Need access? This is a Team-tier feature. You'll need at least a free Community-tier Skillsmith account to get started — comment on this issue expressing interest, or email support@skillsmith.app directly, and we'll set you up with complimentary Team-tier access for UAT (up to 10 seats, 90 days).

Skillsmith's publish_private MCP tool (Team tier) lets you mark an installed skill as private, hiding it from your

Read the thread · 2026-07-30 · open · 0 comments

[Bug]: skill_compare fails for searchable published author skills

Summary

Parent: #2130 · Report ID: C-09 (P1)

skill_compare by slug and UUID for published author skills (hytonylee/*) returned “not found”, even though those skills appear in search.

Steps to reproduce

1. search finds hytonylee/<skill>
2. skill_compare with the same slug and/or UUID → not found

Expected behavior

Any skill resolvable via search/get_skill should be comparable by the same IDs.

Actual behavior

Compare fails with not found for searchable publishe

Read the thread · 2026-07-29 · closed · 1 comment

[Bug]: skill_recommend / CLI recommend empty-stack crash and weak recall

Summary

Parent: #2130 · Report ID: C-07 (P1)

MCP skill_recommend returned candidates_considered: 0 despite project context. CLI recommend on a real workspace crashed with Error: stack is required and must be a non-empty array.

Steps to reproduce

1. In Cursor Agent (MCP healthy), call skill_recommend with project context → candidates_considered: 0
2. In same workspace CLI: skillsmith recommend (or equivalent) → empty-stack error

Expected behavior

• CLI should not

Read the thread · 2026-07-29 · closed · 1 comment

[Bug]: skill_updates returns registry-wide set instead of installed skills

Summary

Parent: #2130 · Report ID: C-08 (P1)

MCP skill_updates returned updatesAvailable: 2833 with a huge payload — does not appear scoped to locally installed skills. Unusable for Cursor Agent sessions and likely to blow context.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install a small number of skills locally (or none beyond fixtures)
2. Call MCP skill_updates
3. Observe thousands of updates / oversized payload

Expected behavior

Only report updates for skills installed on the active cli

Read the thread · 2026-07-29 · closed · 1 comment

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