# Skills Anywhere (npm · dsh-skills-anywhere)

Discover and load Agent Skills from configured local directories and Git sources over stdio MCP.

- Trust score: 86/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +29
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-20

## Components

- npm · `dsh-skills-anywhere`: 86/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere/dsh-skills-anywhere.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere/dsh-skills-anywhere)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `dsh-skills-anywhere`
- Version: `0.12.1`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

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. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-20.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - 0 of 6 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 100/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to noteflowai/dsh-skills-anywhere).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 1 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 83/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 381 tokens (~127/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 23/100
  - Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Skills Anywhere MCP server?

Skills Anywhere runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y dsh-skills-anywhere. 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 noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere -- npx -y dsh-skills-anywhere
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "dsh-skills-anywhere"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "dsh-skills-anywhere"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere -- npx -y dsh-skills-anywhere
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "dsh-skills-anywhere"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere --command npx --arg -y --arg dsh-skills-anywhere
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "dsh-skills-anywhere"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "dsh-skills-anywhere"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere -t stdio -c npx -a -y dsh-skills-anywhere
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "dsh-skills-anywhere"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-09-20 (score 86, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-09-19 (score 71, −14)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.12.0 → 0.12.1

### 2026-09-17 (score 85, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-16 (score 84, +26)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Known CVEs: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Dependency health: unverified → 1.00

### 2026-09-15 (score 58, −10)

- [security regression] Known CVEs: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Stability: 0.03 → unverified
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [functional regression] Dependency health: 1.00 → unverified
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.10.0 → 0.12.0
- [functional] Package version: 0.10.0 → 0.11.1
- [functional] Package version: 0.10.0 → 0.11.0

### 2026-09-14 (score 68, +11)

- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Known CVEs: unverified → pass
- [security] Stability: Stability not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the MCP schema this version of the package serves yet.
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 95 → 127
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 95 → 106
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional improvement] Dependency health: unverified → 1.00
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional improvement] Dependency health: unverified → 0.85
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] MCP protocol: Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).
- [functional] Package version: 0.6.0 → 0.10.0
- [functional] Package version: 0.6.0 → 0.9.0
- [functional] Package version: 0.6.0 → 0.8.0
- [functional] Package version: 0.6.0 → 0.7.0

### 2026-09-13 (score 57)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `list_skills` (~69 tokens)

List skills

List installed Agent Skills (name, description, origin) available through this server. Use find_skills to search a large pool instead of paging through it.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Maximum skills to return (default 200).
- `offset` (integer): Skip this many skills (for paging).

Output parameters:

- `skills` (array)
- `total` (number): Model-invocable skills available.

### `find_skills` (~76 tokens)

Find skills

Search installed Agent Skills by keyword across names, descriptions and origins. Returns the best matches; load one with open_skill.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Maximum matches to return (default 10).
- `query` (string, required): Keywords describing the task or skill, e.g. "pdf forms", "react testing", "docx".

Output parameters:

- `matches` (array)
- `total` (number): Skills searched.

### `open_skill` (~148 tokens)

Open skill

Load the full instructions of an installed Agent Skill by exact name, together with the directory its scripts and references live in.

Input parameters:

- `expected_bundle_sha256` (string): Require the reviewed directory digest from bundle --json. Includes its scripts, references, assets and hidden files; excludes external dependencies. Implies include_bundle.
- `expected_sha256` (string): Require these exact SKILL.md bytes, using a hash from check --json or an earlier open_skill. Excludes referenced files.
- `include_bundle` (boolean): Also fingerprint all regular files below this skill directory; bounded reads, no execution.
- `name` (string, required): Exact skill name as returned by find_skills or list_skills.

Output parameters:

- `bundle` (object): Directory inventory at inspection time. Does not freeze files for later execution or authenticate an author.
- `content` (string): The skill instructions (Markdown body without frontmatter).
- `declared_tools` (array): Tools the author declared this skill needs, from allowed-tools. Reported, not enforced: this server cannot restrict your tools. Absent when the author declared none, which is not a statement that the…
- `description` (string)
- `directory` (string): Absolute directory; resolve relative paths in the instructions against it.
- `name` (string)
- `path` (string): Absolute path of the SKILL.md file.
- `receipt` (object): Identity of this instruction delivery. Attach to your own tool span; does not assert execution, permission enforcement or task success. Omits source path fields and instruction text; preserves author…
- `sha256` (string): SHA-256 of original SKILL.md bytes, including frontmatter; not a security or resource verification.
- `source` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere/dsh-skills-anywhere#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-20: 86
- 2026-09-19: 71
- 2026-09-18: 85
- 2026-09-17: 85
- 2026-09-16: 84
- 2026-09-15: 58
- 2026-09-14: 68
- 2026-09-13: 57

## Common questions

### What is the Skills Anywhere MCP server?

Skills Anywhere is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.noteflowai/dsh-skills-anywhere. Discover and load Agent Skills from configured local directories and Git sources over stdio MCP. This page covers its npm package (dsh-skills-anywhere).

### Is the Skills Anywhere MCP server safe to use?

Skills Anywhere scores 86 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 20 September 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 Skills Anywhere MCP server expose?

Skills Anywhere exposes 3 tools: list_skills, find_skills, open_skill. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 293 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Skills Anywhere MCP server still maintained?

Skills Anywhere is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 20 September 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 Skills Anywhere MCP server under?

Skills Anywhere declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dsh-skills-anywhere
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/dsh-skills-anywhere
- Repository: https://github.com/noteflowai/dsh-skills-anywhere
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere/dsh-skills-anywhere.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere/dsh-skills-anywhere.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/noteflowai-dsh-skills-anywhere/dsh-skills-anywhere