# Use This Skill (remote · usethisskill.com)

Search 1,700+ agent skills for Claude, Codex and Cursor, each safety-scanned, with proofs.

- Trust score: 65/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-22

## Components

- remote · `usethisskill.com`: 65/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-usethisskill-skills/usethisskill.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-usethisskill-skills/usethisskill)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://usethisskill.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.1.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-22.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 6 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 67/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 515 tokens (~85/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 10/100
  - Stability observed for 3 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 81/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 43% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 7 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Use This Skill MCP server?

Use This Skill is a hosted endpoint at https://usethisskill.com/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-usethisskill-skills 'https://usethisskill.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-usethisskill-skills": {
      "url": "https://usethisskill.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-usethisskill-skills": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://usethisskill.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-usethisskill-skills]
url = "https://usethisskill.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-usethisskill-skills": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://usethisskill.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-usethisskill-skills --url 'https://usethisskill.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-usethisskill-skills:
    url: "https://usethisskill.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-usethisskill-skills": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://usethisskill.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-usethisskill-skills -t streamable-http -u 'https://usethisskill.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-usethisskill-skills": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://usethisskill.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-22 (score 65, +1)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 71 → 85
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: 33% → 43%
- [functional] Server version: 1.0.0 → 1.1.0
- [functional] New tool “check_skill”

### 2026-10-21 (score 64, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-20 (score 63, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-19 (score 63)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (6)

### `search_skills` (~105 tokens)

Search skills

Find agent skills for a task. Returns name, description, category, source repo, one-line install command and whether a proof exists.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Optional category filter: Design, Frontend, Backend, Testing, Security, Data & Science, Docs & Writing, Automation, Motion, Other
- `limit` (integer)
- `query` (string, required): What the user is trying to do, e.g. 'landing page design' or 'postgres migrations'

### `get_skill` (~42 tokens)

Get a skill

Full details for one skill by slug: install command, source link, license and the SKILL.md text when the license allows it.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `check_skill` (~114 tokens)

Check a skill before installing

Safety-check a skill before installing it. Pass a skill slug from search_skills, or any public GitHub URL (a repository, or a folder or SKILL.md inside one). Returns clear, review or flagged per skill folder, with the file, line and matched text for every finding. Skills not in the directory are fetched and scanned live.

Input parameters:

- `skill` (string, required): A slug from search_skills, or a GitHub URL such as https://github.com/owner/repo/tree/main/skills/my-skill

### `list_proven` (~33 tokens)

List proven skills

Skills that have a published proof: the same brief built by Claude without and with the skill, as two live pages.

### `get_proof` (~51 tokens)

Get a proof

The proof for a skill: the fixed brief, model, skill commit, and links to both result pages. Full pages for Pro-gated proofs require a Pro license key.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `order_proof` (~40 tokens)

Order a proof for a skill

How a skill author gets their own skill proven and listed ($49, automatic). Returns the order link.

Input parameters:

- `skill_github_url` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-usethisskill-skills/usethisskill#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-22: 65
- 2026-10-21: 64
- 2026-10-20: 63
- 2026-10-19: 63

## Common questions

### What is the Use This Skill MCP server?

Use This Skill is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.usethisskill/skills. Search 1,700+ agent skills for Claude, Codex and Cursor, each safety-scanned, with proofs. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://usethisskill.com/mcp).

### Is the Use This Skill MCP server safe to use?

Use This Skill scores 65 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. 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 Use This Skill MCP server expose?

Use This Skill exposes 6 tools: search_skills, get_skill, check_skill, list_proven, get_proof, order_proof. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 385 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Use This Skill MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Use This Skill without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Use This Skill MCP server still maintained?

Use This Skill is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 22 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://usethisskill.com/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/nodegenie/awesome-agent-skills
- Website: https://usethisskill.com/connect
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-usethisskill-skills/usethisskill.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-usethisskill-skills/usethisskill.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-usethisskill-skills/usethisskill