mcp-design SKILL.md skillA
mcp-design from nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/mcp-design@git:20260919.a0d4f55Pins git:20260919.a0d4f55 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher
- Path
skills/ai/mcp-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260919.a0d4f55, committed Sep 19, 2026
- Size
- 7,157 bytes
- Repository stars
- 58
- License
- MIT
Build an MCP server, or bring an existing one into a project — choosing the transport, deciding which tools, resources and prompts to expose, keeping reads separate from writes, handling auth and credentials, and defining what failure looks like to the model. Use when writing an MCP server, wrapping an internal system as one, or evaluating a third-party server before wiring it in. Not for designing the individual tool signatures inside it (tool-design), and not authorization to install…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# MCP server design An MCP server is a permission surface wearing an API's clothes. Whatever it exposes, the model can call; whatever the process can reach, the server can be asked to touch. Design the boundary first and the tool list second. ## When this fires Writing an MCP server, wrapping an internal service as one, or assessing a third-party server before it is added to a project. It does not fire for defining the parameters of a single tool — that is `tool-design` — nor for ordinary client code that happens to call an API. ## Procedure 1. **Establish why this is a server at all.** A capability the agent uses in one repo, with the files already on disk, is a script or a skill. MCP earns its place when the capability is reused across projects or clients, needs its own credentials, or must run somewhere the agent is not. 2. **Pick the transport from where it runs.** Local process on the user's machine, launched by the client and speaking over stdio: simplest, credentials come from the environment, nothing listens on a port. Remote server over HTTP: needed for a hosted or shared service, and it brings network …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/mcp-design@sha256:25a1e99c309308c8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260919.a0d4f55, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 19, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7157 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher · 58 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hxiwik2ug7qexojg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/mcp-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/25a1e99c309308c85454e0c722fa2b401e768e08fe6fb75bbd5a3a05d6cfdead
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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