Agent Skills and MCP Guides
Practical, source-cited guides to SKILL.md, MCP, code review, database access, product management, marketing workflows, permissions, and security.
Start with the foundations
Every guide distinguishes portable standards from client-specific behavior and links to the first-party documentation used for technical claims.
What SKILL.md is
Understand the open Agent Skills format, required frontmatter, progressive loading, optional scripts and references, and the checks to make before using a skill.
Read guideAgent skills setupInstall agent skills
Install portable Agent Skills in Codex or Claude Code, choose project versus user scope, verify discovery, and update or remove a skill without losing reviewability.
Read guideArchitecture guideMCP vs. agent skills
Choose between MCP servers and Agent Skills by separating live capabilities and authorization from reusable instructions, workflow policy, templates, and examples.
Read guideMCP setupConfigure MCP by client
Configure local stdio or remote HTTP MCP servers in Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code while keeping scope, secrets, trust, and verification explicit.
Read guideMCP securityMCP permissions and security
Review MCP servers for source trust, local code execution, OAuth boundaries, least privilege, prompt injection, approval policy, logging, and incident-ready revocation.
Read guideApply the foundations to real work
Maintained workflow guides turn source, permission, evidence, and approval principles into practical procedures for engineering, data, product, and marketing teams.
Agent skills for code review
Design or evaluate a code-review skill that reconstructs intent, inspects the complete diff, prioritizes concrete defects, verifies tests, and leaves merge authority with the team.
Read guideData workflowMCP servers for databases
Evaluate and configure database MCP servers with source verification, narrow credentials, read-only defaults, schema and row boundaries, query limits, logging, and tested revocation.
Read guideProduct workflowAgent skills for product managers
Turn recurring product work into reviewable Agent Skills with explicit evidence, decision rights, templates, uncertainty handling, and human approval around roadmap commitments.
Read guideMarketing workflowAgent skills for marketing
Create maintainable marketing skills for briefs, research, drafts, repurposing, and campaign QA while preserving source accuracy, brand controls, approvals, and channel-specific review.
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