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CLI and MCP server for Claude skills
Skill Seekers scrapes documentation sites, GitHub repos, PDFs, notebooks, and other sources, then organizes the material into structured knowledge. It can enhance that content with an agent, detect conflicts across sources, and package the result for Claude, other coding assistants, or RAG pipelines.
Builders who want to turn docs and repositories into reusable agent context and Claude skills.
You can go from raw source material to an agent-ready skill or context bundle with much less manual editing.
What it does
Multi-source scraping
Pulls content from docs sites, GitHub repositories, PDFs, videos, notebooks, wikis, and other supported source types.
Conflict detection across sources
Combines multiple inputs into one skill while checking for conflicting information before packaging.
AI enhancement workflows
Uses local or API-based agents to write and improve `SKILL.md` content and supporting references.
MCP server
Ships a Model Context Protocol server with tools for Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and other clients.
Skill packaging and upload
Builds Claude skill zip files and can upload them directly to Claude.
Codebase analysis
Scans project manifests, README files, Dockerfiles, CI, and source imports to generate configs for detected frameworks.
Agent installation
Installs generated skills into agent-specific folders such as Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code/Copilot, and Windsurf.
Preset configs and templates
Includes reusable JSON configs, examples, and starter templates for common projects and workflows.
How to get it
- 1Run
# 1. Install pip install skill-seekers # 2. Create a skill from any source skill-seekers create https://docs.djangoproject.com/ # 3. Package it for your AI platform skill-seekers package output/django --target claude
- 2You now have output/django-claude.zip, ready to use.
# Pick a different AI agent for enhancement (default: claude) skill-seekers create https://docs.djangoproject.com/ --agent kimi skill-seekers create https://docs.djangoproject.com/ --agent-cmd "my-custom-agent run"
- 3Point scan at a project and an AI agent reads its manifests, README, Dockerfile/CI and…
skill-seekers scan ./my-react-app --out ./configs/scanned/ # → react.json, vite.json, tailwind.json, jest.json, my-react-app-codebase.json skill-seekers create ./configs/scanned/react.json
- 4Run
pip install skill-seekers # Core: scraping, GitHub, PDF, packaging pip install skill-seekers[all-llms] # + every LLM platform pip install skill-seekers[mcp] # + MCP server pip install skill-seekers[all] # Everything
README
Skill Seekers
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🧠 The data layer for AI systems. Skill Seekers turns documentation sites, GitHub repos, PDFs, videos, notebooks, wikis, and more — 18 source types — into structured knowledge assets, ready to power AI Skills (Claude, Gemini, OpenAI), RAG pipelines (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone), and AI coding assistants (Cursor, Windsurf, Cline). Prepare once, export to 22 targets.
💛 Sponsors
Launch Partner
Atlas Cloud — A full-modal, OpenAI-compatible AI inference platform. Skill Seekers supports it as a packaging/enhancement target via --target atlas with ATLAS_API_KEY.
Silver Sponsors
Become a sponsor · GitHub Sponsors
🚀 Quick Start
# 1. Install
pip install skill-seekers
# 2. Create a skill from any source
skill-seekers create https://docs.djangoproject.com/
# 3. Package it for your AI platform
skill-seekers package output/django --target claude
You now have output/django-claude.zip, ready to use.
# Pick a different AI agent for enhancement (default: claude)
skill-seekers create https://docs.djangoproject.com/ --agent kimi
skill-seekers create https://docs.djangoproject.com/ --agent-cmd "my-custom-agent run"
🛰️ AI-driven project scan
Point scan at a project and an AI agent reads its manifests, README, Dockerfile/CI and sampled source imports — then emits one config per detected framework, plus a <project>-codebase.json for your own code:
skill-seekers scan ./my-react-app --out ./configs/scanned/
# → react.json, vite.json, tailwind.json, jest.json, my-react-app-codebase.json
skill-seekers create ./configs/scanned/react.json
If a detection has no existing preset, the AI generates a fresh config; on exit you can optionally publish it back to the community registry.
All 18 source types
skill-seekers create facebook/react # GitHub repository
skill-seekers create ./my-project # Local codebase
skill-seekers create manual.pdf # PDF
skill-seekers create report.docx # Word
skill-seekers create book.epub # EPUB
skill-seekers create notebook.ipynb # Jupyter
skill-seekers create openapi.yaml # OpenAPI/Swagger
skill-seekers create presentation.pptx # PowerPoint
skill-seekers create guide.adoc # AsciiDoc
skill-seekers create page.html # Local HTML (or a whole dir)
skill-seekers create feed.rss # RSS/Atom
skill-seekers create curl.1 # Man page
# Video (YouTube, Vimeo, or local — needs skill-seekers[video])
skill-seekers create --video-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... --name mytutorial
skill-seekers create --setup # auto-install GPU-aware visual deps
skill-seekers create --space-key TEAM --name wiki # Confluence
skill-seekers create --database-id ... --name docs # Notion
skill-seekers create --chat-export-path ./slack-export --name team-chat # Slack/Discord
See the Scraping Guide for every source type and its options.
📦 Installation
pip install skill-seekers # Core: scraping, GitHub, PDF, packaging
pip install skill-seekers[all-llms] # + every LLM platform
pip install skill-seekers[mcp] # + MCP server
pip install skill-seekers[all] # Everything
Not sure what you need? Run the wizard: skill-seekers-setup
All installation extras
| Install | Adds |
|---|---|
skill-seekers[gemini] | Google Gemini support |
skill-seekers[openai] | OpenAI ChatGPT support |
skill-seekers[all-llms] | All LLM platforms |
skill-seekers[mcp] | MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor, etc. |
skill-seekers[video] | YouTube/Vimeo transcript & metadata extraction |
skill-seekers[video-full] | + Whisper transcription & visual frame extraction |
skill-seekers[jupyter] | Jupyter Notebook support |
skill-seekers[pptx] | PowerPoint support |
skill-seekers[confluence] | Confluence wiki support |
skill-seekers[notion] | Notion pages support |
skill-seekers[rss] | RSS/Atom feed support |
skill-seekers[chat] | Slack/Discord chat export support |
skill-seekers[asciidoc] | AsciiDoc support |
skill-seekers[all] | Everything |
Video visual deps (GPU-aware): after installing
skill-seekers[video-full], runskill-seekers create --setupto auto-detect your GPU and install the matching PyTorch variant + easyocr.
Prerequisites: Python 3.10+, Git. New here? → Bulletproof Quick Start 🎯
📚 Documentation
| I want to... | Read this |
|---|---|
| Get started quickly | Quick Start — 3 commands to your first skill |
| Understand the concepts | Core Concepts |
| Scrape sources | Scraping Guide — all 18 source types |
| Enhance skills with AI | Enhancement Guide · Enhancement Modes |
| Export skills | Packaging Guide |
| Build workflows | Workflows |
| Look up a command | CLI Reference — all 19 commands |
| Configure | Config Format · Environment Variables |
| Set up MCP | MCP Setup · MCP Reference |
| Integrate with RAG / IDEs | LangChain · RAG Pipelines · Cursor · Windsurf · Cline |
| Handle huge doc sets | Large Documentation — 10K–40K+ pages |
| Understand the architecture | UML Architecture — 14 diagrams |
| Fix a problem | Troubleshooting |
Complete documentation index: docs/README.md
🎯 What you get
| Use case | Output | Powers |
|---|---|---|
| AI Skills | Comprehensive SKILL.md + reference files | Claude Code, Gemini, GPT |
| RAG pipelines | Chunked documents with rich metadata | LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack |
| Vector databases | Pre-formatted data ready for upsert | Pinecone, Chroma, Weaviate, FAISS, Qdrant |
| AI coding assistants | Context files your IDE AI reads automatically | Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Continue.dev |
Export targets (22)
skill-seekers package output/react --target claude # → Claude Skill (ZIP + YAML)
skill-seekers package output/react --target langchain # → LangChain Documents
skill-seekers package output/react --target llama-index # → LlamaIndex TextNodes
skill-seekers package output/react --target ibm-bob # → IBM Bob skill directory
LLM platforms (12): claude · gemini · openai · minimax · opencode · kimi · deepseek · qwen · openrouter · together · fireworks · markdown
RAG & vector (8): langchain · llama-index · haystack · chroma · faiss · weaviate · qdrant · pinecone
Other (2): atlas · ibm-bob
See the Feature Matrix for per-platform support details.
Why it matters
- ⚡ 99% faster — days of manual data prep → 15–45 minutes
- 🎯 Real skill quality — 500+ line
SKILL.mdfiles with examples, patterns, and guides - 📊 RAG-ready chunks — smart chunking preserves code blocks and context
- 🔄 Multi-source — combine docs + GitHub + PDFs + videos into one knowledge asset
- 🌐 One prep, every target — export to 22 targets without re-scraping
- ✅ Battle-tested — 3,900+ tests, 68 workflow presets, production-ready
✨ Key capabilities
Documentation scraping — SPA discovery, llms.txt, smart categorization
Three-layer discovery for JavaScript SPA sites (sitemap.xml → llms.txt → headless browser rendering), automatic llms.txt detection (10× faster when present), smart topic categorization, and a lenient HTML parser fallback so broken markup still scrapes.
GitHub & codebase analysis (C3.x) — AST parsing, pattern detection, how-to guides
Three-stream architecture: code analysis (AST, design patterns, tests), documentation (README, docs/, wiki), and community (issues, PRs, metadata). The C3.x pipeline adds 10 GoF pattern detectors across 9 languages, usage examples extracted from tests, AI-written how-to guides, config extraction, and architecture overviews.
skill-seekers create ./my-project --preset quick # 1–2 min, surface level
skill-seekers create ./my-project --preset standard # balanced (default)
skill-seekers create ./my-project --preset comprehensive # deep, exhaustive
→ Pattern Detection · How-To Guides · Test Example Extraction
AI enhancement — API or local agents, 68 workflow presets
Every AI call runs through one transport, in API mode (Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenAI, Moonshot/Kimi, MiniMax) or LOCAL mode (Claude Code, Kimi Code, Codex, Copilot, OpenCode, custom agents — no API costs). Control depth with --enhance-level 0-3 and pick an agent with --agent.
Unified multi-source scraping — combine many sources into one skill
One config can pull documentation, GitHub, PDFs, videos, and more into a single knowledge asset, with conflict detection and pairwise synthesis across sources.
Video extraction — transcripts, frames, on-screen code
YouTube, Vimeo, and local files. Three-tier transcript fallback (subtitles → YouTube transcript API → local Whisper), plus optional visual extraction that OCRs on-screen code from sampled frames.
Quality, sync & scale
Quality scoring with a gate (skill-seekers quality output/react/ --threshold 7), provisional English readability metrics (informational — they never affect the score), doc-change detection with scheduled re-scrapes and notifications, streaming ingestion for very large doc sets, and incremental updates.
🔌 MCP Integration (40 tools)
Skill Seekers ships an MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code + Cline, and IntelliJ IDEA.
# stdio mode (Claude Code, VS Code + Cline)
python -m skill_seekers.mcp.server_fastmcp
# HTTP mode (Cursor, Windsurf, IntelliJ)
python -m skill_seekers.mcp.server_fastmcp --transport http --port 8765
Then just ask your assistant: "Package and upload the React skill."
→ MCP Setup · MCP Reference · HTTP Transport
🤖 Installing to AI agents
Skills install automatically into 19 AI coding agents:
skill-seekers install-agent output/react/ --agent cursor
skill-seekers install-agent output/react/ --agent all # every detected agent
skill-seekers install-agent output/react/ --agent cursor --dry-run
| Agent | Path | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | ~/.claude/skills/ | Global |
| Cursor | .cursor/skills/ | Project |
| VS Code / Copilot | .github/skills/ | Project |
| Amp | ~/.amp/skills/ | Global |
| Goose | ~/.config/goose/skills/ | Global |
| OpenCode | ~/.opencode/skills/ | Global |
| Letta | ~/.letta/skills/ | Global |
| Aide | ~/.aide/skills/ | Global |
| Windsurf | ~/.windsurf/skills/ | Global |
| Neovate | ~/.neovate/skills/ | Global |
| Roo Code | .roo/skills/ | Project |
| Cline | .cline/skills/ | Project |
| Aider | ~/.aider/skills/ | Global |
| Bolt | .bolt/skills/ | Project |
| Kilo Code | .kilo/skills/ | Project |
| Continue | ~/.continue/skills/ | Global |
| Kimi Code | ~/.kimi/skills/ | Global |
| IBM Bob | .bob/skills/ | Project |
Uploading to Claude
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...
skill-seekers package output/react/ --upload # package + upload
skill-seekers upload output/react.zip # upload an existing zip
No API key? Package it and upload output/react.zip manually at claude.ai/skills.
⚙️ How it works
graph LR
A[Documentation Website] --> B[Skill Seekers]
B --> C[Scraper]
B --> D[AI Enhancement]
B --> E[Packager]
C --> F[Organized References]
D --> F
F --> E
E --> G[AI Skill .zip]
G --> H[Upload to AI Platform]
- Scrape — extract every page (checking
llms.txtfirst) - Categorize — organize content into topics (API, guides, tutorials, …)
- Enhance — AI writes a comprehensive
SKILL.mdwith examples - Package — bundle into a platform-ready artifact
- Upload — ship it to your AI platform (optional)
Architecture
8 core modules + 5 utility modules (~200 classes):
| Module | Purpose |
|---|---|
| CLICore | Git-style command dispatcher, source auto-detection |
| Scrapers | 18 source-type extractors on a shared build layer |
| Adaptors | 22 output platform formats behind one SkillAdaptor ABC |
| Analysis | C3.x codebase pipeline, 10 GoF pattern detectors |
| Enhancement | AI improvement via a single AgentClient transport |
| Packaging | Package, upload, and install skills |
| MCP | FastMCP server (40 tools, 10 tool modules) |
| Sync | Doc change detection and notification |
→ UML Architecture · API Reference · Skill Architecture
🆕 New in v3.9.0
- HTML parser fallback for broken markup (#96) — severely malformed pages no longer scrape as empty; well-formed pages are byte-identical.
- Transient-failure retries — the doc scraper (#97) and MCP
fetch_config(#92) now retry connection blips and 5xx with backoff; 4xx still fails fast. - Whisper transcription fallback (#420) — local videos without subtitles finally get a real transcript.
- MiniMax image OCR + registry-driven multimodal providers (#423) — providers declare their wire protocol and image capability; China-issued keys work against the right endpoint.
- Token-lean GitHub issue defaults (#169) — GitHub skills no longer bundle full closed-issue history by default.
- Env-driven CORS across all three servers (#422, #424) — no more wildcard origins with credentials.
Full history: CHANGELOG.md
📈 Performance
| Documentation size | Time | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Small (< 100 pages) | 5–10 min | ~2 MB |
| Medium (100–500 pages) | 15–30 min | ~10 MB |
| Large (500–2,000 pages) | 30–60 min | ~40 MB |
| Huge (10K–40K+ pages) | Use stream | See Large Documentation |
🐛 Troubleshooting
skill-seekers doctor # diagnose installation & environment
skill-seekers sync-config # detect config drift
Common issues and fixes: Troubleshooting Guide · TROUBLESHOOTING.md
🤝 Contributing
Contributions are welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md.
- 📋 Development Roadmap & Tasks — pick any task
- 💬 Discussions — questions and ideas
- 🐛 Issues — bugs and feature requests
📝 License
MIT — see LICENSE.
🔒 Security
🌐 Ecosystem
Skill Seekers is a multi-repo project:
| Repository | Description | Links |
|---|---|---|
| Skill_Seekers | Core CLI & MCP server (this repo) | PyPI |
| skillseekersweb | Website & documentation | Live |
| skill-seekers-configs | Community config repository | |
| skill-seekers-action | GitHub Action for CI/CD | |
| skill-seekers-plugin | Claude Code plugin | |
| homebrew-skill-seekers | Homebrew tap for macOS |
Want to contribute? The website and configs repos are great starting points for new contributors!
Files in the repo
- .claude
- .codex-plugin
- .github
- .vscode
- api
- configs
- distribution
- docs
- examples
- helm
- scripts
- skills
- src
- templates
- tests
- .dockerignore
- .env.example
- .gitignore
- .gitmodules
- .mcp.json
- AGENTS.md
- CHANGELOG.md
- CLAUDE.md
- codecov.yml
- CONTRIBUTING.md
- docker-compose.yml
- Dockerfile
- Dockerfile.mcp
- example-mcp-config.json
- LICENSE
- mypy.ini
- pyproject.toml
- pytest.ci.ini
- QWEN.md
- README.ar.md
- README.de.md
- README.es.md
- README.fr.md
- README.hi.md
- README.ja.md
- README.ko.md
- README.md
- README.pt-BR.md
- README.ru.md
- README.tr.md
- README.zh-CN.md
- render-mcp.yaml
- render.yaml
- requirements.txt
- ROADMAP.md
- setup_mcp.sh
- setup.sh
- sponsors.json
- SPONSORS.md
- SPONSORSHIP.md
- uv.lock
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