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DimensionAgent Skills MCPMCP server that exposes the Agent Skills catalog to AI coding agents via progressive disclosureGitHub MCP ServerGitHub's official MCP server for managing repos, issues, PRs, and workflows via natural language
FMRS59 / 100 · C76 / 100 · B
Reliability6 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2014 / 20
Maintenance15 / 2018 / 20
Documentation13 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2014 / 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
  • Teams that want an AI assistant to directly operate on GitHub repos and collaboration workflows
  • Users already in the GitHub Copilot ecosystem who want a zero-deployment remote option
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)
  • Scenarios where you don't want the assistant to have write access to repos (enable only read-only toolsets)
  • Environments with strict network isolation for private repos that can't reach the official remote endpoint
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
  • A personal access token (PAT) or OAuth App token; effective scope depends on the token's own permissions
  • Enabling toolsets like actions/issues/pull_requests grants write access — request tokens on a least-privilege basis
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
  • Write toolsets (creating/merging PRs, triggering workflows) can cause accidental changes if the token is overscoped — try a read-only toolset first
  • In hosted mode, credentials travel via the Authorization header — make sure the client-to-api.githubcopilot.com connection is trusted
Supported clientsClaude Code, Cursor, VS CodeClaude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains IDEs, Zed, Amp
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