Use skills from your IDE

What happens

1. 1

   You type a task

   “Extract the tables from these PDF invoices.” With the plugin, every prompt is checked; with the MCP server, the agent asks when a task looks like it needs a tool.

2. 2

   aiqbench suggests

   At most three skills, each with its trust score, one line on why it helps this task, and what it costs in context. Nothing is installed or used yet.

3. 3

   You choose

   Use a skill once for this task, install it for next time, or say no. If you say nothing, the agent carries on and does not mention skills again for that task.

Only skills that passed the scanners with a trust score of 70 or more are ever suggested; community skills also need a specific trigger, not a description that matches everything.

Add the MCP server to your agent

One endpoint for every agent that speaks the Model Context Protocol. Pick yours; the snippet is ready to paste.

claude mcp add --transport http aiqbench https://aiqbench.com/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aiqbench": { "url": "https://aiqbench.com/mcp" }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.aiqbench]
url = "https://aiqbench.com/mcp"

{
  "servers": {
    "aiqbench": { "type": "http", "url": "https://aiqbench.com/mcp" }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aiqbench": { "httpUrl": "https://aiqbench.com/mcp" }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aiqbench": { "url": "https://aiqbench.com/mcp" }
  }
}

The server exposes three tools: find_skills (suggestions for a task), get_skill (read a skill to follow it once, without installing) and install_command (the one-line install for your agent).

Claude Code: the plugin

The plugin adds the MCP server, the find-skills skill, and a hook that checks every prompt of four words or more. Suggestions arrive within 1.5 seconds and never hold up your prompt.

/plugin marketplace add ipbardasu/my-news
/plugin install aiqbench@aiqbench

Two commands inside Claude Code. The marketplace lives in the aiqbench repository; if the install step says it cannot read it, add the MCP server above instead — it is the same server.

Any agent: the find-skills skill

A small skill that tells your agent when it is worth asking the library (a file format, a tool, an audit, a multi-step job) and how to offer what comes back. It uses the MCP server when you have added it, and the public API otherwise.

npx skills add https://aiqbench.com/s/find-skills -a claude-code

Change the agent at the end of the command for Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot or Gemini CLI. Read the skill.

Settings

Set these in the shell your agent runs in. They apply to the plugin's hook; the MCP tools take the same choices as parameters.