Tiger Skills MCP Server – Agent Skill Library Access
Tiger Skills MCP Server is an official Tiger Data MCP server that lets MCP-compatible agents load and use modular skills. It can expose local or GitHub-hosted skills, selectively enable tools or resources, and optionally provide a subagent tool for breaking complex work into smaller agent-executed tasks.
Overview
Tiger Skills MCP Server is an official open source MCP server from Tiger Data. It is designed to emulate Claude-style Skills for any MCP-compatible agent by serving skill metadata, instructions, resources, and optional tools over Model Context Protocol. A skill is a modular package centered on a required SKILL.md file with YAML front matter and Markdown instructions, plus optional bundled resources such as scripts, references, and assets.
What the MCP server enables
The server helps agents discover and use procedural knowledge that is not necessarily contained in the model itself. Skills can represent specialized workflows, tool-integration guidance, company-specific domain knowledge, database schemas, API references, or reusable resources for repeatable work. The server supports skill configuration from local directories, individual local skills, GitHub repositories containing skill collections, and individual GitHub-hosted skills.
Clients can tune behavior with connection-string parameters. For example, enabled_skills restricts the server to specific skills, disabled_skills excludes selected skills, tools=0 disables all tools for resource-only use, and resources=0 disables resources for tool-only use. The server can also provide a subagent tool that delegates complex multi-step work to a separate agent instance; this can be disabled with SUBAGENT_DISABLED=true.
When to use it
Use Tiger Skills MCP Server when an agent needs repeatable task procedures, documented domain context, or reusable files without loading every instruction and asset into the model context up front. It is useful for teams that want to package internal workflows, specialized Postgres or application knowledge, API instructions, policy references, or task templates as MCP-accessible skills.
Connection and authentication
The official repository documents Streamable HTTP and stdio usage. For local HTTP testing, the server runs at http://localhost:3001/mcp; stdio testing starts the built server with node dist/index.js. Configuration is driven by environment variables such as SKILLS_FILE for the skills YAML path and SKILLS_TTL for cache duration. GitHub-hosted skill sources require a GitHub token with the appropriate scopes, provided as GITHUB_TOKEN.
Key considerations
Tiger Skills MCP Server is a configurable skill-serving layer, not a generic database or SaaS management API. The exact capabilities available to an agent depend on the configured skills and whether tools, resources, or subagents are enabled. Treat configured skills and bundled scripts as trusted code and documentation: they may shape agent behavior, expose internal context, or enable file-producing workflows. Store GitHub tokens and other credentials outside configuration files and provide them through environment variables.
Supported Transports
streamable_http
URL: http://localhost:3001/mcp
stdio
Command: node
Args:
dist/index.jsstdio
Frequently Asked Questions
- When should an AI agent use Tiger Skills MCP Server?
- Use it when an MCP-compatible agent needs reusable procedural knowledge, domain instructions, references, scripts, or assets packaged as skills. It is especially useful for specialized workflows where loading all documentation into the model context at once would be inefficient.
- What does Tiger Skills MCP Server add to an AI agent's capabilities?
- It exposes configured skills to the agent, including skill metadata, Markdown instructions, and optional bundled resources. Depending on connection parameters, the agent can use tools, resources, or an optional subagent tool for task decomposition.
- What skill sources can the server use?
- The documented skills configuration supports local skill collections, individual local skills, GitHub repositories containing skill collections, and individual GitHub-hosted skills. Skill names must be unique; duplicate names are ignored with a warning.
- How is authentication configured for this server?
- The server itself is configured through environment variables. GitHub-hosted skill sources require a GitHub token with appropriate scopes, supplied as `GITHUB_TOKEN`; skill loading can also be controlled with `SKILLS_FILE` and `SKILLS_TTL`.
- Which transport should be used for Tiger Skills MCP Server?
- Use Streamable HTTP when running the local HTTP server and connecting clients to `http://localhost:3001/mcp`. Use stdio when launching the built server directly from an MCP client with `node dist/index.js stdio`.