Keep your team’s recommended AI skills in one place, so everyone knows where to find and use them.

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Why Skills Board

Useful skill recommendations tend to disappear into chats, bookmarks, and personal agent setups. Skills Board gives a team one searchable place to collect the skills it recommends and lets every teammate choose how to use them.

One team library. Save useful skills once, organize them with team-specific tags, and make them easy to find again.
Different agents welcome. Share the same recommendation across Claude, Codex, Cursor, and other agent setups.
A choice of handoff. Open the original source, copy a compatible install command, or download the latest skill files as a ZIP.
Organization-scoped access. Create a team, invite members, and keep each library available to its members.
Optional MCP access. Connect compatible agents to authenticated tools for listing, searching, and saving skills to the library.

[!IMPORTANT]
A saved skill is a team recommendation, not a security review, compatibility certification, or pinned release. Skills Board reads the latest available source; inspect that source before using it in an agent.

How it works

Create a team library and add a skill from its GitHub repository.
Skills Board keeps the original source visible and records the recommendation for the team.
Teammates search by task, description, repository, or tag.
Each teammate opens the source, copies a compatible command, or downloads the latest files as a ZIP.

The public catalog can help with discovery when the deployment has Vercel OIDC available. The team library and direct GitHub flow remain the core product.

Run locally

Prerequisites

Node.js 20.9 or newer
pnpm 10
PostgreSQL 15 or newer

1. Install the app

git clone https://github.com/TommyBez/skillsboard.git
cd skillsboard
corepack enable
pnpm install
cp .env.example .env.local

Generate a Better Auth secret with openssl rand -base64 32, then add it and your PostgreSQL connection string to .env.local.

2. Prepare the database

Push the Drizzle schema to a new database. This creates both the Better Auth tables and the application-specific tables from lib/db/schema.ts.

pnpm db:push

3. Start developing

pnpm dev

Open http://localhost:3000. Restart the server after changing DATABASE_URL, because the PostgreSQL pool is created when the module loads.

Environment variables

Variable	Required	Purpose
`DATABASE_URL`	Yes	PostgreSQL connection string used by Better Auth and Drizzle.
`BETTER_AUTH_SECRET`	Yes	Secret used to sign and encrypt authentication data.
`BETTER_AUTH_URL`	Recommended	Public application origin; use `http://localhost:3000` locally.
`RESEND_API_KEY`	Yes outside development	Sends sign-in OTP and team invitation emails through Resend.
`EMAIL_FROM`	Yes outside development	Verified Resend sender for OTP and invitation emails (e.g. `Skills Board <[email protected]>`).
`GITHUB_TOKEN`	No	Raises GitHub API rate limits for metadata and ZIP downloads.
`VERCEL_OIDC_TOKEN`	No	Supplied automatically by Vercel for the optional skills.sh catalog.

Sign-in and sign-up use email one-time codes (no passwords). Outside development, configure both RESEND_API_KEY and a domain-verified EMAIL_FROM; the fallback Resend test sender only works for Resend’s own test recipients. In development, OTP emails are skipped and any 6-digit code works. Without Vercel OIDC, the Discover catalog degrades gracefully while team libraries continue to work.

MCP access

Skills Board exposes an OAuth-protected MCP endpoint at /api/mcp. After signing in, open Settings → MCP for the connection flow. The server offers tools to list and search team skills, get a saved skill's install command, browse the optional public catalog, and save new skills from GitHub to a team library (guarded by the skills:write scope).

Tech stack

Layer	Technology
Application	Next.js 16 App Router, React 19, TypeScript
UI	Tailwind CSS 4, shadcn/ui, Base UI
Authentication	Better Auth (email OTP) with organizations and OAuth provider support
Data	PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM
Email	Resend and React Email
Agent access	Model Context Protocol via `mcp-handler`
Hosting	Vercel and Neon in the hosted deployment; self-hosting is supported

Project commands

Command	What it does
`pnpm dev`	Start the Turbopack development server.
`pnpm typecheck`	Run the TypeScript compiler without emitting files.
`pnpm check`	Run the repository's required local checks.
`pnpm db:push`	Push the Drizzle schema to the configured PostgreSQL database.
`pnpm build`	Create a production build.
`pnpm start`	Start the production server.
`pnpm email`	Preview React Email templates on port 3001.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md before making a substantial change, follow the Code of Conduct, and report vulnerabilities through the process in SECURITY.md.

See the people who have helped build Skills Board on the contributors page.

License

Skills Board is available under the MIT License.