com.skillmd/skillmd
NPM · SKILLMDS · 2 COMPONENTS
Search, fetch, lint, and install Agent Skills (SKILL.md) from the SkillMD registry.
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Last scanned (12 hours ago)
Scores higher than 98% of npm servers
Category Developer Tools
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security98
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- 31 of 100 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency100
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to skillmds/skillmd). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 1 days ago).Pass
- Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability77
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 899 tokens (~128/item across 7 items; 7 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management100
- No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.Pass
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
- Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 7 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 8 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 3 Nov 26 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 2 Nov 26 0
- Stability: pass → 0.97 functional
- 27 Oct 26 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 26 Oct 26 0
- Stability: pass → 0.97 functional
- 20 Oct 26 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 19 Oct 26 0
- Stability: pass → 0.97 functional
- 17 Oct 26 +2
- Stability: 0.87 → pass security
- 15 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 80 to 83. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 24 days of observed history at the previous scan, 25 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/skillmds@1.2.0
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | skillmds/skillmd |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/skillmds/skillmd/.github/workflows/release.yml@refs/tags/v1.2.0 |
| Rekor log index | 2817769749 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:dc3f898c262dbaa770bb9a85cda668a49638260206d81ca7774a953abf67826fb4f9c2555c5396d38bff1418c461a7c4d706614f40ef8e35af0a7f631 |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Dependencies 100 packages
| Packages resolved | 100 |
|---|---|
| Stale | 31 |
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
skillmd_get Get skill details ~59
Fetch one skill by owner/name slug, including its SKILL.md body, provenance (source repo and pinned commit), license, safety verdict and capability flags.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| slug | string | yes | Skill identifier as owner/name, e.g. anthropic/pdf |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ai_audit_verdict | string|null | – | Safety review verdict: pass, caution, warning, fail or inconclusive |
| body_md | string | – | Markdown body of SKILL.md |
| categories | array | – | Every category the skill belongs to |
| category | string | – | Category name |
| category_slug | string | – | Category slug, as used by search and trending filters |
| commit_sha | string|null | – | Pinned upstream commit |
| description | string | yes | What the skill does and when an agent should use it |
| files | array | – | Companion files for packs |
| install_snippet | string | – | One-line install command |
| license | string|null | – | SPDX license id when declared |
| owner_handle | string | – | Publisher handle |
| owner_name | string | – | Publisher display name |
| raw_md | string|null | – | Verbatim SKILL.md including frontmatter when stored |
| repo_stars | number|null | – | GitHub stars of the source repository |
| security_flags | array | – | Capability flags: docs_only, network_calls, executes_scripts, reads_secrets, untrusted_install |
| slug | string | yes | owner/name identifier, e.g. anthropic/pdf |
| source_repo | string|null | – | Upstream repository |
| tags | array | – | Registry tags |
| title | string | yes | Human-readable skill title |
| type | string | – | single SKILL.md or a multi-file pack |
| verified | boolean | – | Published by a verified publisher |
No examples provided.
skillmd_install Install skill ~235
Install a skill by owner/name slug: validates it, then writes one canonical copy (.agents/skills/<name>) and links it into the chosen agents' skill directories. Never executes scripts. The response reports the skill's capability flags (docs_only, network_calls, executes_scripts, reads_secrets) as information.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| agents | array | – | Agent ids to link the skill into (default: every agent detected on this machine) |
| deny | array | – | Refuse the skill if it carries any of these security flags |
| dest | string | – | Deprecated: an explicit agent skills directory. Must be a known agent skills dir; prefer scope + agents. |
| force | boolean | – | Replace a skill installed from a different source or an untracked directory |
| mode | string | – | link (junction/symlink to the canonical copy, default) or copy |
| scope | string | – | project = the current directory's agent folders (default when the cwd looks like a project); global = the user's home-level agent folders |
| slug | string | yes | Skill identifier as owner/name, e.g. anthropic/pdf |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonical | string | yes | Absolute path of the canonical copy every target links to |
| files_written | integer | yes | Number of files written |
| installed | boolean | yes | Whether files were written |
| note | string | – | Caveats, e.g. when only SKILL.md could be written |
| scope | string | yes | Which set of agent folders was written |
| security_flags | array | – | Capability flags reported for the skill |
| skipped | array | – | Agents that were not written, with the reason |
| slug | string | yes | owner/name of the skill |
| targets | array | yes | Agent skill dirs the canonical copy was linked or copied into; empty when only the canonical copy was written |
No examples provided.
skillmd_lint Lint a SKILL.md ~96
Validate a SKILL.md against the SkillMD format and return diagnostics, capability flags and a 0-100 quality score. Pass raw SKILL.md content, or a registry slug (owner/name) to fetch and lint that skill.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| content | string | – | Raw SKILL.md text to validate (frontmatter plus body) |
| slug | string | – | Registry skill (owner/name) to fetch and validate instead of content |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| diagnostics | array | yes | – |
| ok | boolean | yes | True when there are no error-level diagnostics |
| score | integer | yes | Quality score 0-100 |
| security | object | – | Scanner findings and capability flags |
No examples provided.
skillmd_list_saved List saved skills ~34
List the signed-in user's saved skills. Requires the SKILLMD_TOKEN environment variable (a SkillMD personal access token).
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| items | array | yes | Matching skills, best first |
No examples provided.
skillmd_recommend Recommend skills ~85
Recommend skills. With based_on set to a skill's owner/name slug, returns the top skills in that skill's category (excluding itself); without it, returns what is trending over the last 30 days.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| based_on | string | – | Skill slug (owner/name) to base recommendations on |
| limit | integer | – | Maximum number of results (default 10) |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| items | array | yes | Matching skills, best first |
No examples provided.
skillmd_search Search skills ~161
Search the SkillMD registry of Agent Skills (SKILL.md files) by task, name or keywords. Returns matching skills with their owner/name slug, description, category, safety verdict and install snippet, best match first.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | string | – | Restrict to one category slug, e.g. coding, devops, data, security |
| limit | integer | – | Maximum number of results (default 20) |
| min_rating | number | – | Minimum average rating, 0 to 5 |
| query | string | yes | Natural-language query or keywords describing the task or skill |
| type | string | – | Restrict to single-file skills or multi-file packs |
| verified_only | boolean | – | Return only skills from verified publishers (default false) |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| items | array | yes | Matching skills, best first |
No examples provided.
skillmd_trending Trending skills ~94
Top skills on the SkillMD leaderboard, ranked by installs, saves and ratings, optionally within one category and time window.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | string | – | Restrict to one category slug, e.g. coding, devops, data, security |
| limit | integer | – | Maximum number of results (default 20) |
| range | string | – | Ranking window: last 30 days or all time (default all) |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| items | array | yes | Matching skills, best first |
No examples provided.
How do I install the com.skillmd/skillmd MCP server?
com.skillmd/skillmd runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y skillmds. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · skillmds
claude mcp add com-skillmd-skillmd -- npx -y skillmds
What is the com.skillmd/skillmd MCP server?
com.skillmd/skillmd is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.skillmd/skillmd. Search, fetch, lint, and install Agent Skills (SKILL.md) from the SkillMD registry. This page covers its npm package (skillmds).
Is the com.skillmd/skillmd MCP server safe to use?
com.skillmd/skillmd scores 95 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the com.skillmd/skillmd MCP server expose?
com.skillmd/skillmd exposes 7 tools: skillmd_search, skillmd_get, skillmd_install, skillmd_trending, skillmd_recommend, and 2 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 764 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the com.skillmd/skillmd MCP server still maintained?
com.skillmd/skillmd is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the com.skillmd/skillmd MCP server under?
com.skillmd/skillmd declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.