mcp-mastery
Installation
SKILL.md
MCP Mastery — Server Catalog, Advisor, Task Router
The mental model
Skills teach Claude HOW to think — workflows, patterns, playbooks. MCP servers give Claude WHERE things live — real connections to systems and data.
You need both. Skills without MCP = brilliant employee with no tools. MCP without skills = employee with every key but no playbook.
MCP = Model Context Protocol. An open standard that lets Claude connect to external tools, databases, APIs, SaaS platforms, files, browsers, and cloud infra through a universal plug-and-play interface. Without it, the human is the middleware: copy-paste in, copy-paste out. With it, Claude reads the DB directly, opens the PR, sends the Slack message — the human describes intent.
Where to find servers (search these first, don't build from scratch)
| Source | URL | When to use |
|---|---|---|
| Reference implementations | github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers | Start here. Filesystem, git, memory, fetch, sequential-thinking — official + free. |
| Official registry | registry.modelcontextprotocol.io | 500+ indexed servers. The "app store". Anthropic + GitHub + Microsoft + PulseMCP-backed. |
| Awesome list | github.com/wong2/awesome-mcp-servers | Community catalog, organized by category, fastest to skim. |
| Sandbox runner | mcp.run | Try a server without local install. |