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DimensionAgent Skills MCPMCP server that exposes the Agent Skills catalog to AI coding agents via progressive disclosureContext7Upstash's official server providing up-to-date third-party library docs for AI coding assistants
FMRS59 / 100 · C80 / 100 · B
Reliability6 / 2014 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance15 / 2017 / 20
Documentation13 / 2015 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2018 / 20
Best for
  • Developers already using the tech-leads-club/agent-skills catalog who want to search and invoke skills directly from an MCP-enabled coding assistant
  • Workflows that benefit from progressive, on-demand loading of skill content rather than pulling the whole catalog at once
  • Developers using fast-moving frameworks/libraries worried about the AI suggesting stale code
  • Scenarios wanting zero-config documentation lookup
Not for
  • Teams requiring an MCP implementation maintained directly by an official product or protocol owner (this is a community project from Tech Leads Club, not an Anthropic or other official offering)
  • Use cases needing the server itself to execute code, access the filesystem, or call external cloud services (the README does not document such tools)
  • Looking up internal/private codebase documentation (Context7 targets publicly published open-source libraries)
  • Cases needing very high coverage of obscure, niche libraries (coverage depends on what Context7's platform has indexed)
Required permissions
  • Running via npx requires network access to download and execute the @tech-leads-club/agent-skills-mcp package
  • The MCP server needs access to the skills catalog data (via CDN or local cache) to support listing, searching, and reading
  • Usable without an API key (subject to a free-tier rate limit); CONTEXT7_API_KEY is an optional credential for higher quota
  • Read-only documentation lookup — no code execution or local filesystem access involved
Risks and side effects
  • The README notes that roughly 13% of skills in open marketplaces contain critical vulnerabilities; while this project claims static analysis and scanning of its skills, running third-party packages via npx -y still requires trusting the published package
  • The repository's license field is NOASSERTION, and some skills come from community or third-party authors retaining their own original licenses — verify individual skill licensing before commercial or compliance-sensitive use
  • The README does not provide detailed input/output parameters or error codes for the tools, so full integration requires consulting packages/mcp/README.md
  • The free tier has limited quota — high-frequency use may hit rate limits
  • Documentation content comes from Context7's platform index, so its accuracy and freshness depend on that platform's crawl cadence
Supported clientsClaude Code, Cursor, VS CodeClaude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Cline, Amp
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