Specification-aware help
The agent can reason about MCPDS as a design contract for MCP servers, not just as generic YAML.
AI Skills
Install MCPDS guidance into your coding agent.
MCPDS ships an AI skill for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and other agents. The skill gives your agent the MCPDS context it needs to design, review and generate .mcp.yaml files consistently.
What MCPDS skills do
Skills package project knowledge for AI coding tools. The MCPDS skill teaches the agent how the specification is structured, what a valid MCPDS document describes and which installation workflow to use.
Shared across tools
The same skill can be installed for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and other agents so teams get consistent MCPDS guidance.
Local or global scope
Install once for every project, or keep the skill scoped only to the repository where you design MCP servers.
Install MCPDS skills
Use the skills CLI through npx. Add -g when you want the MCPDS skill available globally for all projects.
For all projects
Install the MCPDS skill globally for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and other agents.
npx skills add mcpdesignorg/mcpds -g -a claude-code -a github-copilot -yFor project only
Keep the skill attached to the current repository without changing the global tool setup.
npx skills add mcpdesignorg/mcpds -a claude-code -a cursor -a github-copilot -yUpdate or remove
Refresh the installed MCPDS skill when the upstream guidance changes, or remove it from your setup.
npx skills update mcpds
npx skills remove mcpdsManual install
Prefer to install it yourself? Download or copy the MCPDS skill files from the canonical skills/mcpds folder and place them in the skills directory used by your AI coding tool.