build-mcp-server
Skill0 starsChanged 3 months agoAGPL-3.0View on GitHub
Build, review, or fix an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server so an agent can call a new capability. Use whenever the user wants to "give the agent a tool", "wire up an MCP", "connect <service> to Claude", "make an MCP server", asks why an agent is not calling a tool, or is about to hand-write JSON-RPC. Covers the adopt-vs-generate-vs-write decision, the tool-surface conventions that decide whether a model actually uses the tool correctly, the failure-reporting rules, the egress declaration, and the conformance gate (scripts/mcp_smoke.py). Run it BEFORE writing a server, not after.
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. 0 are common, 4 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 12 edited versions we read keep these.
4
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
Licensed with conditions — read it at the source. We count its rules but don't quote them. Read them on GitHub.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 12 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Other versions12 projects use a version of this.
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Edited · 0
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Wrote their own version · 12
- anthropics/claude-plugins-official★ 46ksame name
- chrisdoc/hevy-mcp★ 529same name
- sepehr071/toolsmelt★ 18same name
- backnotprop/build-mcp-server★ 7same name
- VelimirMueller/ai-development-skills★ 7same name
- VelimirMueller/claude-skills★ 7same name
- HK-hub/AgentSkills★ 6same name
- pproenca/unifi-mcp★ 2same name
- gcapodeferro02/my-agent-skills★ 1same name
- japlete/md-vision-mcp★ 1same name
2 more not listed
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository7 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- .github/copilot-instructions.mdCopilot instructions
- .cursor/rules/standards.mdcCursor rule
- github-repo-publishSkill
- instance-onboardingSkill
- vet-ideaSkill
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