Skills Over MCP: A Simple Way to Share Claude Skills
Use Skills Over MCP to host your SKILL.md files in a public GitHub repo and mount them via a personal MCP URL.
Patch your skill distribution by creating a public repo and configuring MCP servers in your client.
Summary
Claude's new Skills charter introduces a clean packaging format consisting of a folder, a SKILL.md file, and optional supporting assets.
The article highlights the lack of a distribution mechanism for sharing skills across projects, forcing developers to copy and paste directories manually.
To solve this, the author built Skills Over MCP, a public GitHub‑hosted server that serves SKILL.md files as a remote MCP endpoint.
Users can mount the entire skill pack with a single configuration line, and the server updates automatically on GitHub pushes, eliminating manual copy‑paste.
The service works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Claude Desktop before the charter lands, and the SKILL.md files remain functional even before the charter lands in the client.
The author seeded the catalog with over fifty marketing skills and a few developer utilities, encouraging others to fork and customize.
The takeaway is that hosting skills in a public repo and configuring the MCP URL simplifies sharing and versioning.
Key changes
- Skills Over MCP serves SKILL.md files from a public GitHub repo as a remote MCP endpoint.
- Users can mount the entire skill pack with a single configuration line.
- The service updates automatically on GitHub pushes, eliminating manual copy‑paste.
- It works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Claude Desktop before the charter lands.
- The catalog includes over fifty marketing skills and developer utilities.
- Forking and editing skills is straightforward via the MCP URL.