skills demo — daily-standup

The skill from Part 4 of the talk MCP — Plug Your Agent Into Everything (FIT-HCMUS): a folder with one SKILL.md. It composes with the todo MCP server — the skill supplies the process, MCP supplies the reach.

Install

Copy the folder into a project (or your user scope):

# project scope — shared with the team via git
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r daily-standup .claude/skills/

# or personal scope — all your projects
cp -r daily-standup ~/.claude/skills/

Have the todo server connected (any variant works):

claude mcp add --transport http todo-cf https://todo.kha.do/mcp

Then start a new session: claude.

Trigger it — two ways

Naturally — say standup time or what's on today? The request matches the skill’s description, so Claude loads SKILL.md automatically and follows its steps.
Explicitly — type /daily-standup.

Either way, watch it call todo · list_tasks (reach from MCP) and answer in exactly three sections, under 10 lines (process from the skill) — content the user never asked for out loud.

If it doesn’t auto-trigger

Skills are picked up when a session starts — create the file first, then run claude.
The description must say when to use the skill (“Use when I ask for a standup…”), not just what it is (“a standup skill”). Sharpen it and restart.

Beyond Claude Code

The same folder works in claude.ai / Claude Desktop (Settings → Features → upload as zip; needs code execution enabled) and via the Skills API / Agent SDK. Zip it with:

zip -r daily-standup.zip daily-standup