Overview

A CLI that auto-installs MCP servers and skills to your agent(s) based on your project's stack. It uses skills and add-mcp CLIs under the hood.

npx bttrai

Why better-ai

This initially started because I was too lazy to add individual skills and MCP installs for my individual projects, and as a result I was unnecessarily inflating my context window by installing everything globally. As I was building this, I hope this project will provide a way to democratize and standardize development with AI. The standardization part will require community support to maintain a legit list/registry of MCPs and skills. Check out the contributing guide for more info. I used the following sources to build the registry of MCPs and skills:

• Aman's list in create-better-t-stack
• Vercel's official skills registry
• Manual search

Usage

# Run the full install flow in your current directory
npx bttrai 

# Install for a different project directory
npx bttrai --project ./my-app

# Auto-approve install for specific agents
npx bttrai --auto --agent cursor claude-code

# Install only skills
npx bttrai --skills

# Install only MCP servers
npx bttrai --mcp

# Detect what matches the current project
npx bttrai detect

# Output JSON for scripts/automation
npx bttrai detect --json

Commands

| Command | Description | | ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | | bttrai | Default install flow | | bttrai detect | Detect matching MCP servers and skills | | bttrai install | Run the install flow explicitly - this is the default |

Options

| Option | Applies to | Description | | ------------------ | ------------------- | --------------------------------------------- | | --help | all commands | Show command usage and available options | | --project <path> | detect, install | Target a different project directory | | --json | detect, install | Output machine-readable JSON | | --auto | install | Skip prompts and auto-select detected matches | | --agent <name> | install | Choose one or more agents to install into | | --skills | install | Only include skills | | --mcp | install | Only include MCP servers |

[!IMPORTANT] --auto requires at least one --agent. I also wouldn't recommend using it unless you're sure.

Notes

• By default, bttrai is intended to install skills and MCPs in your current project/directory.
• Some agents only have global MCP installations, so in those cases the install may need to be global instead of project-level.
• There is partial support for Python projects, but it's not fully implmented.
• If your project prefers bun, pnpm, yarn, or deno but that runner is not available, bttrai falls back to npx automatically.

Upcoming features

• [ ] Better python support
• [ ] Presets - you can define presets you like, for example a frontend preset with the Shadcn MCP with impeccable and UI/UX pro skill. this would require a global config file for bttrai
• [ ] More languages
• [ ] Maybe a better way to contribute to registries
• [ ] Skills + CLI alternative to MCPs