dropmcp 0.1.0

Drop a skills/ and prompts/ folder, get a FastMCP server with a browseable catalog UI.

Drop MCP

Drop a skills/ and prompts/ folder, get a FastMCP server — with a browseable catalog — in one line.

import dropmcp

dropmcp.run(skills="skills", prompts="prompts")

dropmcp is the reusable, repo-agnostic engine behind several internal skills/prompts MCP servers, extracted as a standalone library.

Why dropmcp?

Skills and prompts are just markdown — anyone can write them, and there are plenty of ways to get them in front of an agent: copy them into .cursor/skills, ship an IDE plugin, sync a folder, paste them into context. The trouble is that every one of those is tied to a single tool, has no central updates, no way to scope who sees what, and no signal about what actually gets used. Spread across many people, repos, and editors, that fragments fast — the same skill forked five ways with no canonical copy, and skills that work in one agent but not the next.

Serving skills over MCP solves the delivery problem generically: one server is reachable from any MCP client (Cursor, Claude Code, CI, whatever comes next), the filesystem stays the single source of truth so there's no registry to drift, and because every skill call is one request, usage is observable for free. The catch is that standing up that server is the same boilerplate every time — frontmatter parsing, tool/prompt/resource registration, a browseable catalog, telemetry, hosting.

dropmcp is that boilerplate, extracted and built around Fast MCP. Point it at a skills/ and prompts/ folder and you get a tested, observable MCP server, so you run one focused server per audience instead of rebuilding the engine each time. Authors maintain content, not infrastructure.

Install

pip install dropmcp

Optional OpenTelemetry export:

pip install "dropmcp[otel]"

Quick start

Lay out your content:

skills/
  my-skill/
    SKILL.md         # YAML frontmatter: name, category, description
    reference.md     # optional supporting files -> resource links
prompts/
  my-prompt/
    PROMPT.md        # YAML frontmatter: name, description, arguments
    assets/          # optional assets -> prompt://my-prompt/assets/<file>

Then serve it over streamable-HTTP:

import dropmcp

dropmcp.run(skills="skills", prompts="prompts")              # binds 127.0.0.1:8000
dropmcp.run(skills="skills", prompts="prompts", host="0.0.0.0", port=8000)

dropmcp is a hosted server — it exists to share skills and prompts with remote MCP clients, so it serves over streamable-HTTP only (no local stdio). The catalog UI is at http://<host>:<port>/ and the MCP endpoint at /mcp.

Need to customise the server before it runs? Use the factory:

mcp = dropmcp.create_server(skills="skills", prompts="prompts")
# add your own routes / middleware ...
mcp.run(transport="streamable-http", host="0.0.0.0", port=8000)

A runnable example lives in examples/.

Scaffold a new server (copier)

Generate a ready-to-run project from the bundled template:

pip install copier
copier copy gh:agoda-com/dropmcp//template my-skills-mcp
cd my-skills-mcp
pip install -r requirements.txt
python server.py

The template asks for a project name and whether to include Promptfoo eval scaffolding under tests/.

Configuration

Every option can be passed as a keyword argument, set via a DROPMCP_* environment variable, or left to its default (kwargs win, then env, then default).

kwarg	env	default	purpose
skills	DROPMCP_SKILLS	skills	skills directory
prompts	DROPMCP_PROMPTS	prompts	prompts directory
name	DROPMCP_NAME	dropmcp	server name shown to clients
website_url	DROPMCP_WEBSITE_URL	–	server homepage URL
icon	DROPMCP_ICON	–	path to an icon (svg/png)
instructions	DROPMCP_INSTRUCTIONS	auto	INSTRUCTIONS.md template
host	DROPMCP_HOST	127.0.0.1	bind host
port	DROPMCP_PORT	8000	bind port
ui_enabled	DROPMCP_UI	true	serve the catalog HTTP routes
reload	DROPMCP_RELOAD	false	re-scan skills/prompts on every request

If an INSTRUCTIONS.md sits next to your content folders it is picked up automatically; otherwise a generic default ships with the package. The {{INSTRUCTION_SUMMARIES}} and {{PROMPT_SUMMARIES}} placeholders are filled from each item's instruction_summary frontmatter.

Hosting guide

dropmcp serves over streamable-HTTP for multi-client hosted deployments. Run your server.py:

DROPMCP_HOST=0.0.0.0 DROPMCP_PORT=8000 python server.py

The catalog UI is available at http://localhost:8000/, the health check endpoint at http://localhost:8000/health, and the MCP endpoint at http://localhost:8000/mcp. Point your remote MCP clients there.

Docker

A minimal Dockerfile for a hosted deployment:

FROM python:3.12-slim

WORKDIR /app

RUN pip install dropmcp

COPY skills/ skills/
COPY prompts/ prompts/
COPY INSTRUCTIONS.md .          # optional

ENV DROPMCP_HOST=0.0.0.0
ENV DROPMCP_PORT=8000
ENV DROPMCP_NAME="My Skills MCP"

EXPOSE 8000
CMD ["python", "-m", "dropmcp"]

Build and run:

docker build -t my-skills-mcp .
docker run -p 8000:8000 my-skills-mcp

Connect a remote MCP client to http://<host>:8000/mcp.

Environment-only deployment

All settings can be passed via environment variables and started with python -m dropmcp — no server.py needed:

export DROPMCP_SKILLS=/data/skills
export DROPMCP_PROMPTS=/data/prompts
export DROPMCP_HOST=0.0.0.0
export DROPMCP_PORT=8000
export DROPMCP_NAME="Acme Skills"
export DROPMCP_WEBSITE_URL="https://skills.example.com"

python -m dropmcp

OpenTelemetry

Install the OTEL extra and point at your collector:

pip install "dropmcp[otel]"
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT="http://otel-collector:4318"
python -m dropmcp

Metrics and structured logs are emitted per skill invocation, prompt render, and resource read. When OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is unset (the default), telemetry is a no-op — no extra imports, no overhead.

Skill and prompt format

SKILL.md

---
name: my-skill
category: my-category
description: One-line description shown to the LLM as the tool description.
instruction_summary: Short phrase for the server-level INSTRUCTIONS.md bullet.
---

Full skill body here — this is what the LLM receives when it calls the tool.

PROMPT.md

---
name: my-prompt
description: Short description shown in the catalog.
instruction_summary: Short phrase for INSTRUCTIONS.md.
arguments:
  - name: who
    description: The person to greet.
    required: true
  - name: tone
    description: Greeting tone (optional).
    required: false
---

Write a {{tone}} greeting addressed to {{who}}.

Validate your content before starting the server with the bundled checker:

python -c "import sys; from dropmcp.validate import run_validation; sys.exit(run_validation('skills', 'prompts'))"

Releasing

Releases are cut by pushing a v* git tag. The CI workflow does the rest: on a tag it builds the catalog UI, builds the wheel + sdist, publishes to PyPI via trusted publishing (no API token needed), and creates a GitHub Release with auto-generated notes.

To ship a new version:

1. Bump the version in both pyproject.toml (version) and src/dropmcp/__init__.py (__version__) — they must match, and the tag must match too. Use semver.

2. Land the bump on main via a merged PR (CI runs tests + the UI build on the PR).

3. Tag the merge commit and push the tag:

   git checkout main && git pull
   git tag v0.2.0
   git push origin v0.2.0
   

4. Watch the publish-pypi job in Actions. When it's green, the new version is live on PyPI and a GitHub Release exists for the tag.

The tag must start with v (e.g. v0.2.0) — that prefix is what gates the publish job. Pushing to main without a tag only runs tests and builds the wheel artifact; it never publishes.

License

Apache-2.0.