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Skill Wiki speaks MCP. Point Claude Code, Cursor, Continue, or any MCP client at the local server and you're done. Full reference in Docs → Usage → Install.

1. Install the CLI

# Bun (recommended)
bun add -g @skill-wiki/cli

# Or npm
npm install -g @skill-wiki/cli

prime --version
# → prime 0.1.0

2. Install a sample Prime

prime install @recipes
# → installed to ./.primes/@recipes

3. Start the MCP server

PRIME_DIR=./.primes/@recipes bunx @skill-wiki/mcp-server-core

4. Wire it into Claude Code

Edit ~/.config/claude-code/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skill-wiki": {
      "command": "bunx",
      "args": ["@skill-wiki/mcp-server-core"],
      "env": { "PRIME_DIR": "/abs/path/to/compiled" }
    }
  }
}

Five tools register in the agent's tool list:

• prime_query — search atoms by intent.
• prime_resolve — fetch one atom at summary, core, or full.
• prime_intent — turn a brief into an atom set.
• prime_validate — check an artifact against the corpus.
• prime_compile — compile sources to the served format.

What's an atom?

A self-contained typed unit of knowledge with:

• A kind — fact, rule, pattern, anti-pattern, method, term, principle, tradeoff, or one of 19 others.
• A domain tag (cooking, frontend-design, …).
• Three projection levels: summary (~30 tok), core (~150 tok), full (~380 tok). Pick the smallest that fits the budget.
• Typed edges to other atoms: requires, supplies-to, related, see-also, enhances, includes, …

Next

• Browse the marketplace — sample Primes + the flagship @frontend-design.
• Read the spec.
• Architecture pipeline.
• Extending: add your own kind.