skillsboard
Skills Board, the agent-native skills registry for teams. Free forever.
Install / Use
claude mcp add TommyBez -- npx -y github:TommyBez/skillsboardIf the server publishes to npm under a different name, use that package instead — check the repo README.
MCP Server
Model Context Protocol server
Quality Score
Category
Development & EngineeringSupported Platforms
Our assessment of skillsboard
skillsboard scores 80/100 on our quality scale, 3598th of 4,654 Development & Engineering skills we index.
Its MCP Server is 11 KB long, well organised into 14 sections with 5 code examples: a thorough specification that gives an agent plenty to work with.
It has 10 GitHub stars, so there is little community track record yet; judge it on its content.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated today, so skillsboard is actively maintained.
- It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
- Its trust signals score 92/100, with 1 caution from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
Safety scan
No issues foundOur scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful.
AI review by kimi-k2.7-code on 2026-10-31. Automated pattern scan on 2026-10-31. It catches known dangerous patterns, not every risk — read a skill before letting an agent act on it.
skillsboard compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than skillsboard; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| skillsboard (this skill)by TommyBez | 80 | 10 | today | MCP Server |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 107.1k | 6d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| taste-skillby Leonxlnx | 100 | 106.6k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| headroomby headroomlabs-ai | 100 | 78.4k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| ai-job-searchby ai-job-search-dev | 100 | 68.2k | today | CLAUDE.md |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install skillsboard?
- Run
claude mcp add TommyBez -- npx -y github:TommyBez/skillsboard. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does skillsboard work with?
- It is written for Claude Code and Claude Desktop, as a MCP Server file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is skillsboard safe to use?
- Our scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful. It is MIT-licensed and scores 92/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is skillsboard still maintained?
- The repository was last updated today, so skillsboard is actively maintained.
Skill content
View source on GitHubWhy Skills Board
Useful skills tend to disappear into chats, bookmarks, and personal agent setups. Skills Board gives a team one searchable place to collect them and lets every teammate choose how to use them.
- One team library. Save useful skills once, organize them with team-specific tags, and make them easy to find again.
- Different agents welcome. Share the same entry across Claude, Codex, Cursor, and other agent setups.
- A choice of handoff. Open the original source, copy a compatible install command, or download the latest skill files as a ZIP.
- Organization-scoped access. Create a team, invite members, and keep each library available to its members.
- Optional MCP access. Connect compatible agents to authenticated, scope-controlled tools for finding and organizing team skills and collections.
[!IMPORTANT] A saved skill is a team's own choice, not a security review, compatibility certification, or pinned release. Skills Board reads the latest available source; inspect that source before using it in an agent.
How it works
- Create a team library and add a skill from its GitHub repository.
- Skills Board keeps the original source visible and records the entry for the team.
- Teammates search by task, description, repository, or tag.
- Each teammate opens the source, copies a compatible command, or downloads the latest files as a ZIP.
The public catalog can help with discovery when the deployment has Vercel OIDC available. The team library and direct GitHub flow remain the core product.
Run locally
Prerequisites
- Node.js 20.9 or newer
- pnpm 10
- PostgreSQL 15 or newer
1. Install the app
git clone https://github.com/TommyBez/skillsboard.git
cd skillsboard
corepack enable
pnpm install
cp .env.example .env.local
Generate a Better Auth secret with openssl rand -base64 32, then add it and your PostgreSQL connection string to .env.local.
2. Prepare the database
Apply the committed Drizzle migrations to a new database. This creates both the Better Auth tables and the application-specific tables from the versioned SQL in drizzle/.
pnpm db:migrate
3. Start developing
pnpm dev
Open http://localhost:3000. Restart the server after changing DATABASE_URL, because the PostgreSQL pool is created when the module loads.
Environment variables
| Variable | Required | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| DATABASE_URL | Yes | PostgreSQL connection string used by the application; Neon may use the pooled URL here. |
| DATABASE_URL_UNPOOLED | For migrations on Neon | Direct PostgreSQL connection used by Drizzle migrations. It can match DATABASE_URL for local, non-pooled Postgres. |
| BETTER_AUTH_SECRET | Yes | Secret used to sign and encrypt authentication data. |
| BETTER_AUTH_URL | Recommended | Public application origin; use http://localhost:3000 locally. |
| CRON_SECRET | Yes for hosted release cleanup | Dedicated random secret used to authenticate the daily expired collection-release cleanup configured in vercel.json. |
| RESEND_API_KEY | Yes outside development | Sends sign-in OTP and team invitation emails through Resend. |
| EMAIL_FROM | Yes outside development | Verified Resend sender for OTP and invitation emails (e.g. Skills Board <login@your-verified-domain.com>). |
| GITHUB_TOKEN | No | Raises GitHub API rate limits for metadata and ZIP downloads. |
| VERCEL_OIDC_TOKEN | No | Supplied automatically by Vercel for the optional skills.sh catalog. |
Sign-in and sign-up use email one-time codes (no passwords). Outside development, configure both RESEND_API_KEY and a domain-verified EMAIL_FROM; the fallback Resend test sender only works for Resend’s own test recipients. In development, OTP emails are skipped and any 6-digit code works. Without Vercel OIDC, the Discover catalog degrades gracefully while team libraries continue to work.
Hosted deployments run the collection-release retention cleanup once per day. Set CRON_SECRET in the Vercel Production environment before deploying; the endpoint fails closed when the secret is absent. Self-hosted deployments can invoke /api/cron/collection-release-retention from their scheduler with Authorization: Bearer <CRON_SECRET>.
MCP access
Skills Board exposes an OAuth-protected MCP endpoint at /api/mcp. After signing in, open Settings → MCP to connect it. The tools can search team skills and collections, retrieve install commands, and discover public or repository skills. With skills:write, they can save new skills and organize collections. They cannot edit or delete saved team skills, install them in an agent, or execute them.
The full contract lives at skillsboard.sh/developers (Markdown at /developers.md): the public endpoints, the OAuth flow, every tool and the scope it needs, and the versioning, error, and rate-limit conventions the HTTP surface follows. The machine-readable index of all of it is /llms.txt.
Official plugin
This repository is also the marketplace for the official Skills Board plugin. The plugin ships the MCP server configuration above and one skill that explains how to use a team library from an agent. It is not tied to one client: the directory in plugin/ carries an Agent Plugins 1.0.0 manifest, and a Claude Code manifest alongside it. Installing it is an alternative to the manual MCP setup above rather than a step after it.
In Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add TommyBez/skillsboard
/plugin install skills-board@skills-board
In any client the plugins CLI supports:
npx plugins add TommyBez/skillsboard
Installing the plugin configures the MCP server. Connecting it still requires signing in to Skills Board and approving the requested scopes in the client.
Tech stack
| Layer | Technology |
| --- | --- |
| Application | Next.js 16 App Router, React 19, TypeScript |
| UI | Tailwind CSS 4, shadcn/ui, Base UI |
| Authentication | Better Auth (email OTP) with organizations and OAuth provider support |
| Data | PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM |
| Email | Resend and React Email |
| Agent access | Model Context Protocol via mcp-handler |
| Hosting | Vercel and Neon in the hosted deployment; self-hosting is supported |
Project commands
| Command | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| pnpm dev | Start the Turbopack development server. |
| pnpm typecheck | Run the TypeScript compiler without emitting files. |
| pnpm test | Run the unit tests (tests/*.test.mjs) with the Node.js test runner. |
| pnpm check | Run the repository's required local checks: typecheck, then the unit tests. |
| pnpm db:generate --name <description> | Generate a versioned migration after changing the schema. |
| pnpm db:check | Check that the schema and committed migration snapshots match. |
| pnpm db:migrate | Apply pending migrations to the configured database. |
| pnpm db:push | Push the schema only to a throwaway database used for prototyping. |
| pnpm build | Create a production build. |
| pnpm start | Start the production server. |
| pnpm email | Preview React Email templates on port 3001. |
| pnpm dlx shadcn@4.23.0 add <component> | Add a shadcn/ui or @remocn registry component. The shadcn CLI is not a project dependency, so it runs pinned through pnpm dlx. |
Contributing
Issues and pull requests are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md before making a substantial change, follow the Code of Conduct, and report vulnerabilities through the process in SECURITY.md.
See the people who have helped build Skills Board on the contributors page.
License
Skills Board is available under the MIT License.
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.