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* docs(community): add Skills Over MCP IG charter (SEP-2149) Add the Skills Over MCP Interest Group charter per SEP-2149 requirements. All existing WGs and IGs must publish a conforming charter by ~May 18, 2026. - New file: docs/community/skills-over-mcp/charter.mdx - Updated docs/docs.json with new "Interest Group Charters" nav group This is the first Interest Group charter submitted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: apply prettier formatting to charter Align table columns to match prettier output; no semantic changes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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title: Skills Over MCP Charter
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description: Charter for the MCP Skills Over MCP Interest Group.
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---
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## Group Type
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**Interest Group**
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## Mission Statement
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The Skills Over MCP Interest Group explores how "agent skills" — rich, structured
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instructions for agent workflows — can be discovered and consumed through MCP. Native
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skills support in host applications demonstrates strong demand, and the IG emerged from
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discussion on [SEP-2076 — Agent Skills as a First-Class MCP Primitive](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2076),
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which raised open questions about whether existing MCP primitives suffice or what
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conventions to standardize. Cross-cutting collaboration is needed because solutions touch
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the protocol spec, registry schema, SDK implementations, and client behavior.
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## Scope
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### In Scope
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- **Requirements gathering**: Documenting use cases, constraints, and gaps in current
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MCP primitives for skill distribution
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- **Pattern exploration**: Testing and evaluating approaches (skills as tools, resources,
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registry metadata, protocol primitives) and discovery mechanisms (runtime via MCP,
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domain-level via well-known URIs, ecosystem-level via registry)
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- **Coordination**: Bridging discussions across Registry WG, Agents WG, and external
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projects including the [Agent Skills](https://agentskills.io/) spec (content format
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and well-known URI discovery), FastMCP, and PydanticAI
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- **Proof of concepts**: Maintaining a shared repo of reference implementations and
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experimental findings
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### Out of Scope
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- **Approving spec changes**: This IG does not have authority to approve protocol
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changes; recommendations flow through the SEP process
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- **Registry schema decisions**: Schema ownership belongs to the Registry WG; this IG
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contributes requirements but does not own the schema
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- **Client implementation mandates**: We can document patterns but not require specific
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client behavior
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- **Plugin/bundle packaging**: Installable bundles (skills + servers + subagents +
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configuration as a single artifact) — surfaced by use cases but belongs to a broader
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packaging effort
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### Related Groups
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- **Agents WG** — How agents consume server metadata, skill activation
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- **Registry WG** — Skills discovery/distribution, registry schema changes
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- **Primitive Grouping WG** — Progressive disclosure patterns
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## Membership
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| Name | Organization | GitHub | Level |
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| ------------------------ | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ----------- |
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| Ola Hungerford | Nordstrom / MCP Maintainer | [@olaservo](https://github.com/olaservo) | Facilitator |
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| Peter Alexander | Anthropic / Core Maintainer | [@pja-ant](https://github.com/pja-ant) | Facilitator |
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| Yu Yi | Google | [@erain](https://github.com/erain) | Participant |
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| Sunish Sheth | Databricks | [@sunishsheth2009](https://github.com/sunishsheth2009) | Participant |
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| Keith A Groves | Hyix | [@keithagroves](https://github.com/keithagroves) | Participant |
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| Peder Holdgaard Pedersen | Saxo Bank / MCP Maintainer | [@pederhp](https://github.com/pederhp) | Participant |
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| Sam Morrow | GitHub | [@SamMorrowDrums](https://github.com/SamMorrowDrums) | Participant |
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| Jacob MacDonald | Google | [@jakemac53](https://github.com/jakemac53) | Participant |
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| Jonathan Hefner | Independent / MCP Maintainer | [@jonathanhefner](https://github.com/jonathanhefner) | Participant |
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| Luca Chang | AWS / MCP Maintainer | [@LucaButBoring](https://github.com/LucaButBoring) | Participant |
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| Bob Dickinson | TeamSpark.ai / MCP Maintainer | [@BobDickinson](https://github.com/BobDickinson) | Participant |
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| Radoslav Dimitrov | Stacklok / MCP Maintainer | [@rdimitrov](https://github.com/rdimitrov) | Participant |
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| Juan Antonio Osorio | Stacklok | [@JAORMX](https://github.com/JAORMX) | Participant |
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| Kaxil Naik | Astronomer / Apache Airflow PMC | [@kaxil](https://github.com/kaxil) | Participant |
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| Cliff Hall | Futurescale | [@cliffhall](https://github.com/cliffhall) | Participant |
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## Operations
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| Meeting | Frequency | Duration | Purpose |
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| ------------ | ----------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Office Hours | Weekly (Tuesdays) | 60 minutes | Technical discussion, pattern evaluation, proposal review; open to all participants |
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Default start time is 9:00 AM Pacific. Sessions may occasionally be scheduled earlier to better accommodate non-US time zones.
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Meetings are published at [meet.modelcontextprotocol.io](https://meet.modelcontextprotocol.io). Agendas are posted in advance per MCP meeting policy. Meeting notes are published to [Meeting Notes — Skills Over MCP IG](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/discussions/categories/meeting-notes-skills-over-mcp-ig).
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Discord: [#skills-over-mcp-ig](https://discord.com/channels/1358869848138059966/1464745826629976084)
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## Resources
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- Experimental findings and reference implementations: [modelcontextprotocol/experimental-ext-skills](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/experimental-ext-skills)
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- Project board: [Skills Over MCP IG](https://github.com/orgs/modelcontextprotocol/projects/38/views/1)
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## Deliverables & Success Metrics
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### Active Work Items
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Full live tracking is on the [Skills Over MCP IG project board](https://github.com/orgs/modelcontextprotocol/projects/38/views/1). Headline workstreams:
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| Item | Status | Champion |
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| Skills Extension SEP (draft, Extensions Track) | In Review | [@pja-ant](https://github.com/pja-ant) |
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| Skills Extension reference implementation | In Review | [@olaservo](https://github.com/olaservo) |
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| Agent Skills spec coordination | In Progress | [@jonathanhefner](https://github.com/jonathanhefner), [@pja-ant](https://github.com/pja-ant) |
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| Registry skills.json proposal | In Progress | [@JAORMX](https://github.com/JAORMX) |
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### Success Criteria
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- **Short-term**: Documented consensus on requirements and evaluation of existing approaches
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- **Medium-term**: Clear recommendation (convention vs. protocol extension vs. both) — the draft Skills Extension SEP represents the IG's current direction: a formal extension using existing Resources primitives
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- **Long-term**: Interoperable skill distribution across MCP servers and clients
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## Changelog
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| Date | Change |
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| 2026-04-14 | Initial charter |

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