About DecimalAI Skills Registry
DecimalAI Skills Registry is an MCP server for searching and inspecting agent skills in DecimalAI’s public registry. It ranks skills using benchmark lift, pass rates, and ratings rather than download counts.
Key features
- 01Searches skills by keyword and semantics
- 02Retrieves skill details and safety status
- 03Shows benchmark lift and SkillScore
- 04Lists ranked skill leaderboards
- 05Optionally reports organization installations
Use cases
- 01Finding skills for a particular query or category
- 02Reviewing a skill’s benchmark and safety information
- 03Comparing ranked skills by score or improvement
- 04Checking which skills an organization installed
MCP support
Exposes three read-only tools to MCP clients: skill search, skill detail lookup, and leaderboard retrieval. Public registry access needs no API key; `DECIMAL_API_KEY` adds organization-specific installation information.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
uvx decimalai-mcpDECIMAL_API_KEYSecretOptional DecimalAI API key (dai_sk_...). All tools work anonymously; the key adds per-org enrichment such as installed_as.Local servers need a runtime on your machine (e.g. Node.js 18+). Config file locations differ by client; see your client’s docs.
Tools
3Saved tool list · updated 2w ago
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| sort | string | No | |
| limit | integer | No | |
| query | string | Yes | |
| category | any | No |
Details
From the project READMEdecimalai-mcp
Part of DecimalAI. Most users want the Python SDK → decimal-labs/decimalai-python.
MCP server for the DecimalAI skills registry — the registry that ranks agent skills by measured effectiveness (verified A/B benchmarks, live pass rates, AI rater scores), not download counts.
Gives any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, …) three read-only tools:
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
search_skills(query, category?, sort?, limit?) | Hybrid keyword/semantic search over the public registry |
get_skill(slug) | Full record: trust & safety-scan status, verified benchmark lift, SkillScore, ratings, SKILL.md body, and how to install it (decimalai skills add <slug>, the folder it lands in, and the Claude Code --plugin-dir line) |
get_leaderboard(sort?, category?, window_days?, limit?) | Ranked leaderboard: skill_score, biggest_improvement, efficiency, top_rated |
No API key required — all three tools read public registry endpoints. If you set DECIMAL_API_KEY (from app.decimal.ai/settings), the same tools additionally show which skills your org has already installed (installed_as).
Install
pip install decimalai-mcp
# or, no install needed at config time:
uvx decimalai-mcp
Requires Python 3.10+.
Claude Code
claude mcp add decimalai -- uvx decimalai-mcp
# with an API key:
claude mcp add decimalai -e DECIMAL_API_KEY=dai_sk_... -- uvx decimalai-mcp
Claude Desktop
Add to claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config):
{
"mcpServers": {
"decimalai": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["decimalai-mcp"],
"env": {
"DECIMAL_API_KEY": "dai_sk_optional"
}
}
}
}
Omit the env block entirely for anonymous read-only access.
Configuration
| Env var | Default | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
DECIMAL_API_KEY | (unset) | Optional. Unlocks per-org enrichment (e.g. installed_as) on the same public endpoints. |
DECIMAL_API_URL | https://api.decimal.ai | Point at a self-hosted / local backend. |
Why no check_manifest_impact tool?
The manifest-impact endpoint (POST /api/v1/regression-check) is authenticated on the platform — it analyzes your org's production traces against a candidate manifest, so there is no public variant to expose. This server is deliberately a read-only, key-optional public-registry surface. If demand shows up, an authed check_manifest_impact (requiring DECIMAL_API_KEY) is a natural v0.2 addition; the regression-check GitHub Action covers the CI use-case today.
Endpoints used (all public)
GET /api/v1/registry/skills— browse/searchGET /api/v1/registry/skills/{slug}— detailGET /api/v1/registry/leaderboard— ranked leaderboard (categoryfiltering falls back to the browse endpoint's documentedview=ranksmode, because the leaderboard endpoint is uncategorized)
Development
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest # all HTTP mocked; no network
python -m decimalai_mcp.server # run over stdio
Run pytest yourself before opening a PR. CI also asserts that the pinned mcp<2 still provides FastMCP, which the mocked tests do not cover — run that one too:
python -c "from mcp.server.fastmcp import FastMCP; import decimalai_mcp.server"
Releases are cut from a published GitHub Release — see
RELEASING.md for the gates a
change has to pass and the version strings that must move together.
License
MIT
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