8 Agent Skills and my first MCP server published to npm
🇪🇸 Leer este post en Español I spent months watching my agent re-solve the exact same problems, over and over, because I never sat down and wrote them up once so anyone else could reuse them. That's the kind of technical debt nobody ever puts on a roadmap. So I published alpha-skills : eight installable Agent Skills and my first MCP server on npm . Where the published skills live The…
In a recent development, a developer has published a collection of eight installable Agent Skills and their first MCP server to the npm package manager. The skills are categorized into three groups: external for third-party APIs, local for homelab infrastructure and personal workflows, and general for cross-cutting utilities that do not depend on any specific service.
The skills cover a wide range of topics such as NextDNS API, code and documentation search, project context, authentication and permissions, advanced NestJS internals and architecture, code-first and schema-first GraphQL, Claude Code configuration, and Obsidian vault organization and review.
Each skill can be installed individually using the command "npx skills add Alpha018/alpha-skills -s [skill name]". For example, to install the NextDNS API skill, one would run "npx skills add Alpha018/alpha-skills -s nextdns-api". The MCP server, named @alpha018/nextdns-mcp, is a standard input/output (stdio) server that utilizes the NextDNS API to manage various tasks like reading and updating a profile's settings, managing list entries, pulling analytics, and reading logs.
The developer emphasizes that the general skills share a common style among them, focusing on providing decision guides rather than feature lists. They ensure that the skills are lean, with deep material moved to separate reference files, and include evals and trigger-eval.json files to determine when a skill should be triggered. Additionally, every file that gets persisted undergoes a de-AI pass to remove any potential AI-generated content.
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