MCP Skills Server for VS Code
io.github.srprasanna/mcp-skills-server
MCP server that loads and serves skills from a mounted directory with hot reload.
client:VS Code
transport:stdio
runtime:oci
Install MCP Skills Server in VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
"inputs": [
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "mcp-skills-dir",
"description": "MCP_SKILLS_DIR",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "mcp-skills-hot-reload",
"description": "MCP_SKILLS_HOT_RELOAD",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "mcp-skills-log-level",
"description": "MCP_SKILLS_LOG_LEVEL",
"password": true
}
],
"servers": {
"mcp-skills-server": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"-i",
"--rm",
"docker.io/srprasanna/mcp-skills-server:1.0.0"
],
"env": {
"MCP_SKILLS_DIR": "${input:mcp-skills-dir}",
"MCP_SKILLS_HOT_RELOAD": "${input:mcp-skills-hot-reload}",
"MCP_SKILLS_LOG_LEVEL": "${input:mcp-skills-log-level}"
}
}
}
}VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs