Lifecycle management for agent skills.

Skills spread across teams faster than anyone can govern them. Skillsmith gives them a lifecycle: publish immutable versions to your team's registry, catch drift before it spreads, and deprecate what's gone stale.

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The skill lifecycle problem

Skills spread across teams faster than anyone can govern them. Skillsmith gives them a lifecycle: publish immutable versions to your team's registry, catch drift before it spreads, and deprecate what's gone stale.

Which team is this scoped to?

Every skill is published to a registry scoped to your team.

Which version is installed here?

Versions are immutable once published, so drift across installs is visible instead of silent.

Has it been flagged by the security scan?

Skills pulled from the public index are scored automatically. Flagged or suspicious ones are quarantined pending review.

What happens to the ones nobody maintains?

Skills that go stale can be deprecated instead of quietly rotting in someone's repo.

Without Skillsmith

  • ✕ Skills scattered across forks, gists, and shared drives
  • ✕ No way to tell which version is installed where
  • ✕ No way to catch drift, or deprecate what's gone stale
  • ✕ No shared registry — every team starts from scratch

With Skillsmith

  • ✓ One registry for your team — publish, version, deprecate
  • ✓ Quality scores, integrity-checked publishes, audit logs you can trust
  • ✓ MCP, CLI, and VS Code surfaces over the same registry
  • ✓ Stack-aware recommendations from hundreds of thousands of indexed skills

Scopes and permissions

Skills are scoped to your team's registry. Team owners and admins control who can publish and manage skills; members install and search.

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Add this MCP server to my settings.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skillsmith": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@skillsmith/mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

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Common Questions

What are agent skills?
Agent skills are reusable prompt-and-tool bundles that extend AI coding assistants like Claude Code. Each skill teaches your agent a new capability — from generating commits to running security audits — without writing custom prompts from scratch.
Is Skillsmith free?
Yes. The Community tier is free forever with 100 API calls per month, semantic search, and one-click installation. No credit card required. Paid plans start at $9.99/month for higher limits and analytics.
What AI tools does it work with?
Skillsmith works with any AI tool that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), including Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and other MCP-compatible clients. Install the MCP server and your client discovers skills automatically.
How do I install a skill?
Add the Skillsmith MCP server to your client's settings.json, restart, then ask your AI assistant to search for and install skills. You can also use the CLI: run npx @skillsmith/cli search testing to find skills, then npx @skillsmith/cli install author/skill-name to install.

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