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Adding Skills to your agent setup

Adding Skills to your agent setup

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Adding Skills to your agent setup

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Skills, in particular, give you borderline superpowers. I started building out a skill to scaffold an MCP server with MCP apps, and then I discovered that our good friends over at the MCP project have already created that skill. So if you go to the X apps page for MCP apps and scroll down a little bit, you'll see install agent skills. This repository provides two agent skills for building MCP apps, and these agent skills will build out the scaffolding for an MCP app and allow you to start working much faster. Now that we have skills as a capability, you can now publish your own skills, either in a repository or on their own in one of these shared repositories, and give everyone else the capability of doing the same thing, to create a best practice for installing things or a specific tool they can use in some way. The possibilities here are pretty much endless, and it's open source, and people are sharing it, so you'll find new useful skills all the time. Vercel, for example, has…

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