Skill-Cortex MCP server

Skill-Cortex is a small helper program that gives your AI access to a library of Claude Code Skills, which are little instruction files that teach the AI how to do a specific task. It is handy if you have collected skills over time and want your AI to find and use them no matter which editor you work in. You do not need to be a programmer to benefit from it, though someone does need to set it up once.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something, and if a saved skill could help, the AI asks this helper to look through your skill folders. The helper scans and indexes the SKILL.md files it finds, then searches them by keyword or tag. It can hand back a short summary, just the instructions, just the examples, or the whole file, so your AI does not waste space on things it does not need. You then get an answer that uses the skill, or a list of matching skills to pick from.

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What you can do with it

• Browse your skills as a tree by category
• Search skills by keyword or tag
• Read a skill's summary, instructions, examples, or full text
• List and update tags on your skills
• Create a new skill with a template
• Delete a skill you created, with a confirmation step first
• Import skills from public repositories using a script

Try asking your AI

• “Find a skill about working with databases”
• “Show me the instructions for my python helper skill”
• “List all skills tagged coding”
• “Create a new skill called writing-helper for drafting emails”

What it gives back to you

You get back lists of skills, short summaries, or the exact part of a skill file you asked for, shown right in the chat. If you create or delete a skill, it tells you what it did and where the skill lives. Search results come with the skill's name, description, and tags so you can pick the right one.

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Who it's for

People who have collected Claude Code Skills and want to use them from any editor or command line tool, especially developers and writers who reuse the same instructions often.