Shipping a personal MCP server

Workflow for repos whose entire purpose is producing an MCP server for personal, cross-project use, rather than a library other code imports. Covers going from a working repo to "loadable in any project," and how that differs between the dev machine and everywhere else. The worked examples name the author's own servers — a family of *-polite-mcp repos — because a concrete name reads better than a placeholder; substitute your own everywhere.

Shipping an Agent Skill is a different job with a different mechanism — see the skill-authoring skill, which also covers getting an edit to an existing skill deployed.

What this skill reads, runs and writes

This skill ships no scripts; what it touches, it touches through the commands it tells you to run.