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Awesome Agent Skills

Browse, inspect, invoke, and refresh 100+ curated AI skills from the VoltAgent collection through MCP.

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Install Awesome Agent Skills

Pick your client, then add it in one click or paste the config.

STDIONode.js
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "awesome-agent-skills": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "awesome-agent-skills-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config, merge this into mcpServers, then fully quit and reopen Claude Desktop.

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Overview

Browse 100+ curated AI skills through the awesome-agent-skills MCP server, including skills from Anthropic, Vercel, Trail of Bits, Hugging Face, and other organizations. It synchronizes skill definitions from the VoltAgent repository, stores them in a local JSON cache, and exposes discovery, inspection, invocation, and refresh tools over MCP. Use it when an MCP-compatible assistant needs structured access to specialized guidance for documents, web development, security, machine learning, and related workflows. The package runs through npx or a local Node.js installation and uses defaults without requiring environment variables.

Use cases

  • List skills for a development topic
  • Inspect a skill before invoking it
  • Apply React or Next.js guidance to code
  • Review code with a security-focused skill
  • Refresh the local skill catalog

Key features

  • Accesses 100+ curated AI skills
  • Filters skills by source or tag
  • Invokes skills with optional parameters
  • Synchronizes from the VoltAgent repository
  • Caches skill data locally
  • Supports MCP 2024-11-05

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What Awesome Agent Skills lets your agent do. Expand a tool for its parameters.

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How Awesome Agent Skills works

What awesome-agent-skills does

The awesome-agent-skills MCP server makes the VoltAgent Awesome Agent Skills collection available to MCP clients. The collection contains more than 100 curated skills covering areas such as document creation, presentation and spreadsheet work, PDF processing, React and Next.js development, Vercel deployment, security analysis, smart contract review, Hugging Face workflows, code review, payment integrations, React Native, workflow automation, and serverless Postgres.

Skills are sourced from multiple organizations, including Anthropic, Vercel, Trail of Bits, Hugging Face, Sentry, Stripe, Expo, n8n, Sanity, Neon, and Remotion. The server provides access to the skill definitions and invocation interface; the available behavior depends on the selected skill.

How it works

At startup, the server fetches skill data from the configured VoltAgent repository and maintains a local JSON cache. A background synchronization interval keeps the cache updated by default every 60 minutes. Set the interval to zero to disable automatic synchronization, or call refresh_skills when an immediate manual update is needed.

The awesome-agent-skills MCP server communicates through the MCP 2024-11-05 protocol. It is implemented in TypeScript and uses Zod for runtime validation. Clients can first discover available skills, inspect an individual skill, and then invoke it with optional parameters such as a document type.

Setup and configuration

Node.js 20 or newer is required, along with npm or yarn. The quickest installation is:

Terminal
npx awesome-agent-skills-mcp

You can also install the npm package globally, install it in a project, or build it from source. Configure the resulting command as a local MCP server.

Optional environment variables control behavior:

  • SKILLS_REPO_URL changes the source repository.
  • SKILLS_CACHE_DIR changes the cache location.
  • SKILLS_SYNC_INTERVAL sets the automatic refresh interval in minutes.
  • LOG_LEVEL selects debug, info, warn, or error logging.

All have documented defaults, so no environment variable is required for the standard setup.

Tools and capabilities

The server exposes four tools:

  • list_skills returns available skills and can filter by source or tag.
  • get_skill returns details for a selected skill ID.
  • invoke_skill runs a selected skill and accepts optional parameters.
  • refresh_skills manually retrieves the latest skill data from the configured repository.

This makes the awesome-agent-skills MCP server suitable for assistants that need to find a relevant practice, retrieve its details, and apply it during a development task. Examples in the README include reviewing React components, finding security-related skills, applying Stripe guidance to checkout code, and analyzing a pull request with a code-review skill.

Limitations and notes

The server depends on the configured skills repository for its catalog and updates. Network access may therefore be needed when populating or refreshing the cache. Skill coverage and behavior are determined by the upstream collection, which can change as that repository is updated.

The README identifies the package as MIT-licensed and requires Node.js 20 or newer. VS Code users must fully quit and reopen VS Code after changing the MCP configuration for the new server entry to take effect.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Awesome Agent Skills

awesome-agent-skills is an MCP server that connects AI clients to the VoltAgent Awesome Agent Skills repository. Its main tools list available skills, retrieve details for a skill, invoke a skill with optional parameters, and refresh the local catalog. The collection includes more than 100 skills from organizations such as Anthropic, Vercel, and Hugging Face.

Install it with `npx awesome-agent-skills-mcp` and add that command to your MCP client configuration. You can also install the npm package globally or locally. Node.js 20 or newer and npm or yarn are required.

awesome-agent-skills supports VS Code with GitHub Copilot, Claude Desktop, OpenCode, and other MCP-compatible clients. Configure it as a local command using `npx awesome-agent-skills-mcp` or point the client to a locally built JavaScript entry point.

Set `SKILLS_REPO_URL` to change the repository and `SKILLS_SYNC_INTERVAL` to change automatic synchronization in minutes. Set the interval to `0` to disable automatic syncing. The `refresh_skills` tool can trigger an update manually.

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