Official agent skill

Adding MCP Store Servers

by PostHog in PostHog/posthog-foss

Add a third-party MCP server (Linear, Notion, GitHub, ...) to the PostHog MCP store catalog.

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Install Adding MCP Store Servers

skills CLI
$ npx skills add PostHog/posthog-foss --skill adding-mcp-store-servers -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install PostHog/posthog-foss adding-mcp-store-servers --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-foss.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/adding-mcp-store-servers .claude/skills/adding-mcp-store-servers && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
adding-mcp-store-servers
GitHub stars
721
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
695 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
213
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Add a third-party MCP server (Linear, Notion, GitHub, ...) to the PostHog MCP store catalog.

  • Works in 6 steps: Find the vendor's remote MCP endpoint. → Probe it. → Author the entry in catalog.py,… → …
  • Asked to add X to the MCP store
  • SKILL.md covers Read first, Workflow, Operator checklist for… and What not to do
  • Calls python; reaches img.logo.dev and us.posthog.com

What it does

Adding MCP Store Servers is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog-foss, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Add a third-party MCP server (Linear, Notion, GitHub, ...) to the PostHog MCP store catalog. Use when asked to "add X to the MCP store", expand the MCP server marketplace, or fix a broken catalog entry. Covers finding the vendor's remote MCP endpoint, probing it (handshake, OAuth discovery, DCR), authoring the catalog entry in products/mcpstore/backend/catalog.py, verification tiers, and the operator handoff for servers without Dynamic Client Registration.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering MCP servers and OAuth and OpenID Connect. It works with Model Context Protocol, PostHog, GitHub and Notion. The repository describes itself as: PostHog FOSS is a read-only mirror of PostHog, with all proprietary code removed. NOTE: This repo is synced automatically from the main PostHog repo. Please raise any issues and… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to add X to the MCP store
  • Expand the MCP server marketplace
  • Fix a broken catalog entry

Example prompts

  • “add X to the MCP store”
  • “/adding-mcp-store-servers”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Find the vendor's remote MCP endpoint.
  2. Probe it.
  3. Author the entry in catalog.py, alphabetically by name
  4. Verify end-to-end when you can (Gate B).
  5. Run the checks.
  6. Open the PR — one server per PR, on an mcp-store/-prefixed branch (e.g. mcp-store/add-pagerduty), with a feat(mcp-store) title…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2c48221. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • img.logo.dev
    • us.posthog.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Adding MCP Store Servers loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 122 tokens; SKILL.md has 695 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~122
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from PostHog/posthog-foss at commit 2c48221, republished under its MIT licence (© PostHog). 695 words, ~1,604 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/adding-mcp-store-servers/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
adding-mcp-store-servers
description
Add a third-party MCP server (Linear, Notion, GitHub, ...) to the PostHog MCP store catalog. Use when asked to "add X to the MCP store", expand the MCP server marketplace, or fix a broken catalog entry. Covers finding the vendor's remote MCP endpoint, probing it (handshake, OAuth discovery, DCR), authoring the catalog entry in products/mcp_store/backend/catalog.py, verification tiers, and the operator handoff for servers without Dynamic Client Registration.

Adding a server to the MCP store

The MCP store catalog is code: one entry in products/mcp_store/backend/catalog.py per server. On deploy, sync_mcp_server_templates upserts entries into MCPServerTemplate rows in every environment — there are no data migrations, no icon assets, and no manual admin steps for most servers. Adding a server is a small PR to that file.

Read first

  • products/mcp_store/README.md — the catalog pipeline, sync semantics, and operator runbook
  • products/mcp_store/backend/catalog.py — existing entries; match their tone and shape
  • products/mcp_store/backend/probe.py — what the probe verifies and what passed_activation_gate means

Workflow

  1. Find the vendor's remote MCP endpoint. Check the vendor's docs (search "<vendor> MCP server"); most publish a hosted endpoint like https://mcp.<vendor>.com/mcp. Only hosted (remote) MCP servers belong in the catalog — local/stdio servers do not. Cross-check public MCP registries if the docs are unclear.

  2. Probe it.

    sh
    DEBUG=1 python manage.py probe_mcp_server https://mcp.example.com/mcp

    The JSON verdict tells you everything the entry needs:

    • speaks_mcp: false → the probe could not verify MCP. Stop and re-research — with one exception: reachable: true plus the error "Initialize was rejected and no OAuth metadata was discovered" is the auth-walled API-key case (last bullet below).
    • auth_flavor: "oauth_dcr" with passed_activation_gate: true → OAuth with Dynamic Client Registration. The entry is auth_type="oauth" and will activate automatically on merge.
    • auth_flavor: "oauth_shared" → OAuth without DCR. The entry is auth_type="oauth" but normally ships inactive; an operator must register an OAuth app with the vendor and paste credentials in Django admin (see the operator checklist below — include it in your PR description). If PostHog already provisions that exact OAuth app through an instance credential source, declare the reviewed source instead; catalog sync verifies and activates it without copying secrets.
    • auth_flavor: "open" → the handshake completed without credentials. auth_type="api_key"; activates automatically on merge.
    • auth_flavor: "api_key_or_unknown" with reachable: true → an auth-walled API-key server; a bare 401/403 gives the probe no MCP evidence. auth_type="api_key", but the entry ships inactive — verify it with a real install (Gate B) before adding it, and note in the PR that an operator flips it active in Django admin per environment (users bring their own key; nothing to provision).
  3. Author the entry in catalog.py, alphabetically by name:

    • name — the vendor's own casing ("PagerDuty", not "Pagerduty").
    • description — one sentence, sentence case, verb-first, matching the existing entries ("Manage Linear issues, projects, and team workflows."). No marketing copy.
    • category — the closest of business / data / design / dev / infra / productivity.
    • icon_domain — the vendor's primary brand domain (linear.app, not mcp.linear.app). Verify logo.dev has it: GET /api/projects/@current/hog_functions/icons/?query=<vendor> from a dev session, or check https://img.logo.dev/<domain> renders a real logo.
    • docs_url — the vendor's MCP docs page when they have one.
  4. Verify end-to-end when you can (Gate B). The probe covers everything up to the OAuth consent screen. If you have an account with the vendor, complete one real install in local dev: run the stack, install the server from the store UI, finish the OAuth flow (or paste an API key), and confirm the tool list populates. Record the verification tier in the PR description:

    • Tier 1: probe passed + real install verified (tools listed).
    • Tier 2: probe passed only (no vendor account available).
  5. Run the checks.

    sh
    hogli test products/mcp_store/backend/test/test_catalog_sync.py

    test_catalog_entries_are_valid catches malformed entries (bad category, duplicate URL, unnormalized icon_domain) before they hit production.

  6. Open the PR — one server per PR, on an mcp-store/-prefixed branch (e.g. mcp-store/add-pagerduty), with a feat(mcp-store) title: feat(mcp-store): add <name> to the MCP server catalog. State the probe verdict and verification tier in the description. For oauth_shared servers without an existing instance credential source, include the operator checklist so activation isn't forgotten.

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Operator checklist for oauth_shared servers (paste into the PR)

md
This server does not support Dynamic Client Registration, so it ships inactive. To activate (per environment, US and EU):

- [ ] Register an OAuth app in the vendor's developer console
- [ ] Redirect URI: `https://us.posthog.com/api/mcp_store/oauth_redirect/` (and the EU equivalent)
- [ ] Paste client ID + secret into Django admin → MCP server templates → <name>
- [ ] OAuth metadata was auto-discovered by the sync; run the "Discover metadata" admin action only if it's empty
- [ ] Tick "is active"

What not to do

  • Don't add entries with unprobed URLs — a dead catalog entry is user-visible breakage.
  • Don't edit is_active, oauth_credentials, or oauth_metadata expectations into the catalog — those are operational state owned by the row, not by code.
  • Don't add an instance credential source for a newly registered vendor app. Sources are only for an existing client already provisioned across every target environment, with exact trusted issuer, authorization, and token endpoints enforced before any secret is used.
  • Don't add icon assets or icon_key values — icons resolve from icon_domain via logo.dev at render time.
  • Don't batch unrelated servers into one PR unless explicitly doing a scaffold sweep; per-server PRs keep review and reverts clean.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/adding-mcp-store-servers of PostHog/posthog-foss.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2c48221

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Questions about Adding MCP Store Servers

What does Adding MCP Store Servers do?

Add a third-party MCP server (Linear, Notion, GitHub, ...) to the PostHog MCP store catalog. Adding MCP Store Servers is an agent skill from PostHog/posthog-foss, published by the product's own GitHub organization.) to the PostHog MCP store catalog.

When should I use Adding MCP Store Servers?

Adding MCP Store Servers fits situations like: asked to add X to the MCP store; expand the MCP server marketplace; fix a broken catalog entry.

How do I install Adding MCP Store Servers in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add PostHog/posthog-foss --skill adding-mcp-store-servers -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/adding-mcp-store-servers in PostHog/posthog-foss) into .claude/skills/adding-mcp-store-servers in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Adding MCP Store Servers in Codex?

Run `npx skills add PostHog/posthog-foss --skill adding-mcp-store-servers -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/adding-mcp-store-servers in PostHog/posthog-foss) into .agents/skills/adding-mcp-store-servers in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Adding MCP Store Servers in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add PostHog/posthog-foss --skill adding-mcp-store-servers -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/adding-mcp-store-servers, .gemini/skills/adding-mcp-store-servers, .github/skills/adding-mcp-store-servers and .opencode/skills/adding-mcp-store-servers in your project.

What does Adding MCP Store Servers need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Adding MCP Store Servers needs the command-line tools its instructions call (python). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Adding MCP Store Servers access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. In commands or code: img.logo.dev and us.posthog.com; the agent is likely to contact these when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Adding MCP Store Servers safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Adding MCP Store Servers use?

Adding MCP Store Servers is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Adding MCP Store Servers use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Adding MCP Store Servers?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Adding MCP Store Servers: Building MCP Server On Cloudflare (CommandCodeAI/agent-skills, 132 stars), Superset Integration Tools (superset-sh/superset, 15k stars), MCP Server Trello Growth (delorenj/mcp-server-trello, 446 stars) and Integrate MCP (davekilleen/Dex, 493 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Adding MCP Store Servers?

PostHog (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in PostHog/posthog-foss, which has 721 GitHub stars. The repository holds 213 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: PostHog/posthog-foss on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.