Skills

Covers mcp__skills__search_skills and mcp__skills__install_skill — discovering and installing new capability skills.

Get exact argument shapes from the live tool schema — this reference gives routing, sequencing, and safety only.

Availability

Ordinarily present. If absent from your live tool list, skill discovery/install is unavailable this session.

Approval

mcp__skills__install_skill mutates durable state and is approval-gated. Install only once the user has signaled intent; if approval is declined, stop and report — don't install through the shell.

Workflow

1. mcp__skills__search_skills — searches skill marketplaces and returns candidates with quality/source metadata and an opaque install_source string. Present the relevant matches to the user with their source and quality and let them choose.
2. mcp__skills__install_skill — after the user signals intent, call it with the exact install_source from the chosen search result, passed verbatim.

Handle install_source verbatim

install_source is opaque — never construct or edit it yourself. Pass back exactly what a search result gave you. Cherry clones, installs the single skill, and registers it in one call, so never run npx skills add, git clone, or any shell command to install — that skips Cherry's registration.

Recovery

• Tool error result (bad install_source, etc.) → read the message; re-run search_skills to get a fresh valid install_source rather than hand-editing one.
• Approval declined → stop and report; don't install via the shell.

Example

"Is there a skill for reviewing React performance?"

mcp__skills__search_skills "react performance" → present the best matches with their source and quality → if the user says install one, mcp__skills__install_skill with that result's exact install_source. No git clone, no manual copying.