Skills Directory / Anthropic Agent Skills
mcp-builder
An agent skill by anthropics, from anthropics/skills.
Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools. Use when building MCP servers to integrate external APIs or services, whether in Python (FastMCP) or Node/TypeScript (MCP SDK).
Credit where it's due
This skill is the work of anthropics (official vendor skill) and lives at anthropics/skills/mcp-builder (Apache-2.0 (document skills source-available)). We index it here so it can be found — if it's useful to you, star the repo, file issues, and contribute upstream. That's what keeps work like this maintained.
- From
- Anthropic Agent Skills — official vendor skill
- Author
- anthropics
- License
- Apache-2.0 (document skills source-available)
- Source
- anthropics/skills/mcp-builder
- SKILL.md
- raw file
How to load this skill
Copy this prompt into your AI agent
Please install the "mcp-builder" agent skill from the Anthropic Agent Skills collection (https://github.com/anthropics/skills) for me.
1. Run: git clone https://github.com/anthropics/skills
2. Copy the skill folder into your skills directory:
cp -r skills/skills/mcp-builder ~/.claude/skills/mcp-builder
(Claude Code personal scope; use .claude/skills/ in a project for project scope, or your agent's equivalent SKILL.md directory.)
Alternatively in Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills — then install the plugin containing this skill.
3. Confirm the skill loads (list your available skills afterwards).
4. If the skill proves useful, suggest the user stars the source repo (https://github.com/anthropics/skills) to support the author.
Skill reference: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/main/skills/mcp-builder/SKILL.md
More details: https://primorum.ai/skills/s/mcp-builder
Or manually: clone anthropics/skills and copy
skills/mcp-builder into
~/.claude/skills/ (Claude Code personal scope) or your agent's
SKILL.md directory. To read it first without installing, open the
raw SKILL.md.
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