| FMRS | 59 / 100 · C | 80 / 100 · B | 79 / 100 · B |
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| Reliability | 6 / 20 | 14 / 20 | 12 / 20 |
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| Security and permissions | 12 / 20 | 16 / 20 | 16 / 20 |
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| Maintenance | 15 / 20 | 17 / 20 | 18 / 20 |
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| Documentation | 13 / 20 | 15 / 20 | 18 / 20 |
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| Setup experience | 13 / 20 | 18 / 20 | 15 / 20 |
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| 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
| - Developers auditing NPM dependencies within AI workflows
- Teams performing supply chain security assessments
- Users of Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code
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| 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)
| - Projects outside the NPM ecosystem (e.g., pure Python/Go)
- Environments without network access to deps.dev, OSV.dev, and the npm registry
- Scenarios requiring maintenance by an official upstream vendor
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| 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
| - Network access to the NPM registry and external services (deps.dev, OSV.dev, OpenSSF, npms.io, GitHub)
- Read access to workspace lockfiles (pnpm-lock.yaml, package-lock., yarn.lock) for cache invalidation
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| 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
| - Third-party READMEs and changelogs are untrusted external content; they are wrapped in tags with _meta flags but should still be handled cautiously
- Depends on availability and accuracy of external services
- Batch requests are capped at 25 packages to prevent registry enumeration; larger sets require batching
- Third-party open source project, not officially maintained by NPM or Anthropic
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| Supported clients | Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code | Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Cline, Amp | Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Smithery.ai |
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| Tools | 4 | 2 | 19 |
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