mcp-assistant
Connect your AI app to anything via MCP
What it does
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration guide, written for reducing cognitive load at every step. Helps decide whether a capability gap needs a pre-built MCP server or a custom one, then walks through connecting or building it one step at a time.
How it works
Opens with one triage question, "what do you wish your AI could access or do that it can't right now," and routes based on the answer. Before ever suggesting a custom build, it runs a Complexity Check against a registry of pre-built servers (GitHub, Google Drive, Slack, Notion, Neon/Postgres, Supabase, Filesystem, Brave Search, Sentry, Linear, Figma). Most capability gaps are already solved.
Only when nothing pre-built fits does it move to a seven-step custom server build (STDIO for local, Streamable HTTP for remote), with one non-negotiable rule flagged before any code gets written: never write to stdout in a STDIO server, or the protocol silently breaks. Every phase, quick start, connecting to Claude Desktop or Claude Code, auth, and debugging via MCP Inspector, runs one step at a time with a "say done to continue" checkpoint.
Try it
Tell me about my app, what it does, and what I wish my AI could access or do that it
can't right now: [describe the gap]. Check first whether a pre-built MCP server already
covers this before recommending I build one from scratch.
When to reach for it
"My AI can't access X," before assuming that means writing a custom MCP server from zero.
Install this skill
Get the actual skill file running in your own Claude.
Download .skill fileClaude.ai, Claude Desktop, or Cowork
Download the .skill file above, then go to Settings → Capabilities → Skills and drag it in.
Claude Code
Download the .skill file (or copy the raw SKILL.md below), then unzip it into .claude/skills/mcp-assistant/SKILL.md in your project, or into ~/.claude/skills/ to make it available across every project.
Just want to try it once, right now?
Copy the raw SKILL.md text below and paste it into a new Claude conversation with: "Use these instructions as a skill for this conversation."
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