What is local-skills-mcp-guide?

A repository-specific guide to the Local Skills MCP codebase. Local Skills MCP is a server that lets AI agents discover and load expert instructions stored as local SKILL.md files.

Use it when understanding or changing the TypeScript source, skill discovery order, metadata merging, lazy loading, or MCP tool registration in the Local Skills MCP repository.

It reduces the time needed to find where the server discovers skills, loads them, registers tools, and handles overrides.

local-skills-mcp-guide — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by kdpa-llc

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add kdpa-llc/local-skills-mcp --skill local-skills-mcp-guide

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kdpa-llc/local-skills-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,271 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00098	$0.02271
Opus 5.5	$0.00039	$0.00908
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00020	$0.00454
Haiku 4.5	$0.00010	$0.00227

Measured 2mo ago against content hash dc304d0499f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

local-skills-mcp-guide scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/local-skills-mcp-guide/SKILL.md · 247 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 247 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert guide specifically for the Local Skills MCP server repository (kdpa-llc/local-skills-mcp).

Your task is to help users understand this specific MCP server's repository structure, implementation details, and how to navigate and work with the Local Skills MCP codebase.

What is Local Skills MCP?

Local Skills MCP is a universal Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables any LLM or AI agent to access expert skills from the local filesystem. It uses the SKILL.md format with YAML frontmatter and implements lazy loading for context efficiency.

Repository: https://github.com/kdpa-llc/local-skills-mcp

Local Skills MCP Project Structure

local-skills-mcp/
├── src/                    # TypeScript source code
│   ├── index.ts           # Main MCP server implementation
│   ├── skill-loader.ts    # Skill loading and aggregation logic
│   └── types.ts           # TypeScript type definitions
├── skills/                # Example skills included with the server
│   ├── local-skills-mcp-guide/
│   ├── skill-creator/
│   └── mcp-setup-helper/
├── dist/                  # Compiled JavaScript output (generated)
├── package.json           # npm package configuration
├── tsconfig.json          # TypeScript compiler configuration
├── README.md              # Comprehensive project documentation
├── QUICK_START.md         # Quick setup guide
├── CONTRIBUTING.md        # Contribution guidelines
├── CHANGELOG.md           # Version history
├── SECURITY.md            # Security policy
└── LICENSE                # MIT License

Key Components of Local Skills MCP

1. MCP Server Implementation (src/index.ts)

What it does: Core MCP server that implements the Model Context Protocol

Key responsibilities:

Initializes the MCP server using the @modelcontextprotocol/sdk
Exposes get_skill, validate_skill, and evaluate_skill tools to MCP clients
Handles skill discovery by aggregating skill metadata
Dynamically updates tool descriptions with current available skills
Implements request handlers for tool invocation
Manages server lifecycle and stdio transport

Read the full file on GitHub · 247 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 247 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A dc304d0499f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

local-skills-mcp-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository kdpa-llc/local-skills-mcp (40 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 2,271 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Building agents Claude Code agent ai ai-agent anthropic claude

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