Install, manage and develop MCP servers and skills for agents
Smithery CLI MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Smithery CLI directly instead of describing what you should do. Install, manage and develop MCP servers and skills for agents.
Smithery CLI connects your agents to thousands of skills and MCP servers directly from the command line. To get started, simply run npx skills add smithery/cli.
Once Smithery CLI is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
Tools — Interact with tools from MCP servers connected via smithery mcpSkills — Browse skills on the Smithery Skills Registry and install them with the upstream installer:Auth — The Auth tool exposed by this serverNamespaces — The Namespaces tool exposed by this serverPublishing — The Publishing tool exposed by this serverskills on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Smithery CLI's toolset — Tools, Skills, Auth and 2 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by smithery-ai; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Tools | Interact with tools from MCP servers connected via smithery mcp. |
| Skills | Browse skills on the [Smithery Skills Registry](https://smithery.ai/skills) and install them with the upstream installer: |
| Auth | The Auth tool exposed by this server. |
| Namespaces | The Namespaces tool exposed by this server. |
| Publishing | The Publishing tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"cli-smithery-ai": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "skills"]
}
}
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