discover-mcp

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Automatically discover MCP (Model Context Protocol) skills when building MCP servers, designing tools, implementing resources/prompts, or testing MCP integrations. Activates for MCP server development tasks.

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npx skill4agent add rand/cc-polymath discover-mcp

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mcp-skills-discoverymcp-server-developmentmcp-tool-designmcp-testingprogressive-loading

SKILL.md Content

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MCP Skills Discovery

Provides automatic access to comprehensive MCP server development, tool design, and testing skills.

When This Skill Activates

This skill auto-activates when you're working with:
  • Building MCP servers (TypeScript or Python)
  • Designing MCP tools, resources, or prompts
  • Choosing MCP transports (stdio, SSE, Streamable HTTP)
  • Implementing JSON-RPC 2.0 over MCP
  • Testing MCP servers with Inspector or automated tests
  • Debugging MCP protocol or transport issues
  • Publishing or deploying MCP servers

Available Skills

Quick Reference

The MCP category contains 3 specialized skills:
  1. mcp-server-fundamentals - Architecture, transports, tools/resources/prompts primitives, SDK setup
  2. mcp-tool-design - Tool naming, schemas, error handling, annotations, progressive disclosure
  3. mcp-testing - Inspector, unit tests, integration tests, transport debugging, CI/CD

Load Full Category Details

For complete descriptions and workflows:
Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/INDEX.md
This loads the full MCP category index with:
  • Detailed skill descriptions
  • Usage triggers for each skill
  • Common workflow combinations
  • Cross-references to related skills

Load Specific Skills

Load individual skills as needed:

Server architecture and setup

Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/mcp-server-fundamentals.md

Tool design and best practices

Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/mcp-tool-design.md

Testing and debugging

Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/mcp-testing.md

Common Workflows

New MCP Server

Sequence: Fundamentals -> Tool Design -> Testing
Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/mcp-server-fundamentals.md # Architecture, transport, SDK Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/mcp-tool-design.md # Design tool interfaces Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/mcp-testing.md # Test with Inspector, CI

Adding Tools to Existing Server

Sequence: Tool Design -> Testing
Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/mcp-tool-design.md # Naming, schemas, errors Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/mcp-testing.md # Test new tools

Debugging MCP Issues

Sequence: Testing -> Fundamentals
Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/mcp-testing.md # Inspector, transport debugging Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/mcp-server-fundamentals.md # Lifecycle, capabilities

Integration with Other Skills

MCP skills commonly combine with:
API skills (
discover-api
):
  • MCP servers wrapping REST or GraphQL APIs
  • Authentication for MCP tool backends
Testing skills (
discover-testing
):
  • Comprehensive test strategies
  • Contract testing patterns
Infrastructure skills (
discover-infra
, 
discover-cloud
):
  • Deploying MCP servers
  • Scaling HTTP transports

Progressive Loading

This gateway skill (~170 lines, ~1.5K tokens) enables progressive loading:
  • Level 1: Gateway loads automatically (you're here now)
  • Level 2: Load category INDEX.md (~2.5K tokens) for full overview
  • Level 3: Load specific skills (~2-3K tokens each) as needed
Total context: 1.5K + 2.5K + skill(s) = 4-8K tokens vs 12K+ for everything.

Quick Start Examples

"Build an MCP server": Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/mcp-server-fundamentals.md
"Design MCP tools for my API": Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/mcp-tool-design.md
"Test my MCP server": Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/mcp-testing.md
"Debug why my MCP tool isn't showing up": Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/mcp-testing.md
Next Steps: Run 
Read <cc-polymath-root>/skills/mcp/INDEX.md
to see full category details, or load specific skills using the commands above.