Android Skills MCP

Android Skills MCP wraps Google's android/skills library so any AI coding assistant can use it without copy and paste. The repository ships two tools that share a common parser and a bundled snapshot of the upstream skills, so both work offline through npx.

You get an MCP server that exposes the skill library to any MCP capable client, and a packager CLI that converts each SKILL.md into the native rules format of every major AI coding assistant.

Full documentation lives at skydoves.github.io/android-skills-mcp.

Packages

This is a pnpm workspace with three packages:

• android-skills-mcp is an MCP server. It speaks stdio, ships three tools (list_skills, search_skills, get_skill), and exposes every skill as a skill:// resource. Any MCP client (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Windsurf) can discover and pull the right skill on demand.
• android-skills-pack is a CLI. It converts the upstream SKILL.md files into seven native rules formats (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini Code Assist, JetBrains Junie, Continue.dev, Aider) and writes them into your project.
• @android-skills/core is the shared library used by both. It parses SKILL.md frontmatter with gray-matter, validates against the agentskills.io spec via zod, and builds a BM25 index with minisearch.

How to install the MCP server

You need this once per machine. Every project you open afterwards can use the skills.

Claude Code

claude mcp add android-skills -- npx -y android-skills-mcp

Cursor

Add an entry to .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "android-skills": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "android-skills-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Other MCP clients

Anywhere you can register an MCP server with a stdio command, run:

npx -y android-skills-mcp

The bundled snapshot loads in under 200 ms, so the cost of spawning the server per session is negligible.

How to install skills as files

If you prefer rules files committed to your repository over an MCP server, the packager CLI writes them directly. You can pick a single target or all:

npx android-skills-pack install --target cursor
npx android-skills-pack install --target claude-code
npx android-skills-pack install --target copilot
npx android-skills-pack install --target all

You can also filter to a specific skill:

npx android-skills-pack install --target cursor --skill edge-to-edge
npx android-skills-pack install --target claude-code --skill edge-to-edge,r8-analyzer

The full list of supported targets:

Target	Output	Notes
claude-code	.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md	Near 1:1 copy with references kept as separate files.
cursor	.cursor/rules/<name>.mdc	description plus alwaysApply: false frontmatter; references inlined.
copilot	.github/instructions/<name>.instructions.md	applyTo: "**" frontmatter.
gemini	.gemini/styleguide.md	Single concatenated file with ## <skill> sections.
junie	.junie/skills/<name>/SKILL.md	JetBrains Junie supports the agentskills.io spec natively.
continue	.continue/rules/<name>.md	name, description, alwaysApply frontmatter.
aider	CONVENTIONS.md (repo root)	Single file. Add read: CONVENTIONS.md to .aider.conf.yml.

Repository layout

android-mcp/
├── packages/
│   ├── core/   @android-skills/core   parser, schema, search index
│   ├── mcp/    android-skills-mcp     MCP server (stdio)
│   └── pack/   android-skills-pack    packager CLI
├── scripts/    sync-skills.mjs, build-skills-index.mjs
└── skills/     upstream android/skills clone (gitignored)

The skills/ directory is a plain clone of android/skills and is gitignored. You only need it for development. Both published packages bundle a parsed snapshot of the skills inside dist/skills.json, so end users never need the upstream repository.

Development

Clone, install, and run the test suite:

git clone https://github.com/skydoves/android-skills-mcp.git
cd android-mcp
pnpm install
pnpm sync:skills
pnpm build
pnpm test

The build runs in topological order: core first, then mcp and pack in parallel. Each package has its own vitest suite. The full test count is 64 across the three packages.

You can smoke test the MCP server over stdio without any client:

printf '%s\n' \
  '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2024-11-05","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"smoke","version":"0"}}}' \
  '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"notifications/initialized"}' \
  '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/list"}' \
  | node packages/mcp/dist/bin.js

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Trademarks

Android is a trademark of Google LLC. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC. The skill content bundled in this project is redistributed from android/skills under the terms of its Apache 2.0 license. See NOTICE for complete attribution.

Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini Code Assist, JetBrains Junie, Continue, and Aider are trademarks of their respective owners. This project mentions them to describe compatibility with their public extension mechanisms.

License

Designed and developed by 2026 skydoves (Jaewoong Eum)

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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