mcp-server-dev

Skills for designing and building MCP servers that work seamlessly with Claude — guides you through deployment models (remote HTTP, MCPB, local), tool design patterns, auth, and interactive MCP apps.

Claude Code3 skills

by Anthropic33.3kupdated 40 minutes ago

Source

$ git clone https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official

Clone the source, then follow the repository's marketplace instructions for your runtime. The plugin root is plugins/mcp-server-dev/ inside the repository.

Layout

plugins/mcp-server-dev/

├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
├── skills/build-mcp-app/SKILL.md
├── skills/build-mcp-server/SKILL.md
└── skills/build-mcpb/SKILL.md

Skills3

build-mcp-appskills/build-mcp-app/SKILL.md

This skill should be used when the user wants to build an "MCP app", add "interactive UI" or "widgets" to an MCP server, "render components in chat", build "MCP UI resources", make a tool that shows a "form", "picker", "dashboard" or "confirmation dialog" inline in the conversation, or mentions "apps SDK" in the context of MCP. Use AFTER the build-mcp-server skill has settled the deployment model, or when the user already knows they want UI widgets.

build-mcp-serverskills/build-mcp-server/SKILL.md

This skill should be used when the user asks to "build an MCP server", "create an MCP", "make an MCP integration", "wrap an API for Claude", "expose tools to Claude", "make an MCP app", or discusses building something with the Model Context Protocol. It is the entry point for MCP server development — it interrogates the user about their use case, determines the right deployment model (remote HTTP, MCPB, local stdio), picks a tool-design pattern, and hands off to specialized skills.

build-mcpbskills/build-mcpb/SKILL.md

This skill should be used when the user wants to "package an MCP server", "bundle an MCP", "make an MCPB", "ship a local MCP server", "distribute a local MCP", discusses ".mcpb files", mentions bundling a Node or Python runtime with their MCP server, or needs an MCP server that interacts with the local filesystem, desktop apps, or OS and must be installable without the user having Node/Python set up.

Manifests1

plugins/mcp-server-dev/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

{
  "name": "mcp-server-dev",
  "description": "Skills for designing and building MCP servers that work seamlessly with Claude — guides you through deployment models (remote HTTP, MCPB, local), tool design patterns, auth, and interactive MCP apps.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Anthropic",
    "email": "support@anthropic.com"
  }
}