Install Arc Free Skills in Claude Code
What you need first
- Claude Code, installed.
- uv, which
gives the
uvxcommand the server starts with. - Your own value for
YOUR_ARC_FREE_SKILLS_WORKSPACE.
Steps
- Run this in a terminal, in the project folder. It adds the server for you in that
project; put
--scope userafterclaude mcp addto have it in every project.
claude mcp add --env ARC_FREE_SKILLS_WORKSPACE=YOUR_ARC_FREE_SKILLS_WORKSPACE --transport stdio arc-free-skills -- uvx arc-free-skills==1.0.0 arc-free-skills serve - Replace
YOUR_ARC_FREE_SKILLS_WORKSPACEwith your own value. - Start Claude Code and type
/mcp: the server is listed with its state.
Check it worked
Ask Claude Code: List the tools of arc-free-skills.
If it does not start
- spawn uvx ENOENT
- uv is not on the PATH that Claude Code sees. Install it, or write the
full path of
uvxin the config. - The server starts, but its tools fail
- A
YOUR_…placeholder is still in the config, or its value is wrong.