feat(skills): add MCP Skills extension guide with source tracking

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Adds a locally authored mcp-skills-extension skill for publishing Agent Skills over MCP and implementing discovery, verified loading, and caching in hosts. The guide includes focused server/host verification scenarios and links to the normative specification.

Source metadata records modelcontextprotocol/ext-skills, reviewed commit 0e85d4db8860a305c857f26fdede64f416675b92, the specification path, and the checked date. The existing frontmatter drift scanner detects this pin; the sources reference explains how to compare later changes and refresh the guide. The skill is categorized under vault-meta, with navigation and the graph regenerated.

Validation:

• Skill validator, Markdown lint, TypeScript typecheck, and CLI lint passed; CLI lint retains two existing unused-import warnings.
• CLI suite: 412 passed, 11 skipped, 0 failed. Independent server/host scenario review checked the instructions against the pinned specification.
• Vault validation passed with zero violations; discovery ranks the new skill first for MCP skills extension skills/list skills/get, and the drift scanner recognizes its source revision.
• A second vault build leaves the staged generated files unchanged.

Embedding refresh was attempted but the configured server at 127.0.0.1:8080 was unavailable. The new skill is available through lexical/graph discovery; its semantic vector is pending. Validation also reports the existing orphan-rate warning and two previously stale vectors (security-audit and skillquarium).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added guidance for implementing and troubleshooting the MCP Skills extension.
  • Added host integration guidance covering discovery, verification, permissions, caching, and resource loading.
  • Added verification procedures and references for maintaining MCP Skills extension compatibility.

• Documentation

  • Added the MCP Skills extension to the vault catalog, related skills, navigation, and domain maps.
  • Updated skill and domain totals to reflect the newly available resource.

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• skills/mcp-skills-extension/references/host-integration.md

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The pull request adds the mcp-skills-extension skill and its host integration references. It records the reviewed upstream source and verification process. It also registers the skill in vault categories, graph data, indexes, maps, notes, and related-skill links.

MCP Skills Extension

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Skill guidance and verification skills/mcp-skills-extension/SKILL.md, skills/mcp-skills-extension/references/sources.md	Documents server publishing, host loading, verification, protocol details, pinned source metadata, and refresh steps.
Host integration requirements skills/mcp-skills-extension/references/host-integration.md	Defines discovery, identity, manifest verification, approval, origin, and cache requirements for MCP-hosted skills.
Vault registration and relationships .skill-vault/src/build/categories.json, vault/graph/graph.json, vault/index.md, vault/maps/vault-meta.md, vault/notes/software-dev/implement.md, vault/notes/vault-meta/mcp-skills-extension.md	Adds the skill to the vault-meta category and updates graph relationships, counts, navigation, metadata, and related-skill references.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9f32d

Hosts following this guidance could share private MCP responses across authorization contexts. Add the cache-scope rule before relying on the guide for private deployments.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding an MCP Skills extension guide with source tracking.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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Inline comments:
In `@skills/mcp-skills-extension/references/host-integration.md`:
- Around line 70-72: The host-integration guide’s cache requirements must define
authorization-context partitioning: document that cacheScope: public applies
only to responses without user-specific data, and private responses from
skills/list, skills/get, and resources/read may be reused only within the same
authorization context. Require every private response-cache key to include that
authorization context, while preserving the existing server identity, URI,
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• .skill-vault/src/build/categories.json
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• skills/mcp-skills-extension/references/host-integration.md
• skills/mcp-skills-extension/references/sources.md
• vault/graph/graph.json
• vault/index.md
• vault/maps/vault-meta.md
• vault/notes/software-dev/implement.md
• vault/notes/vault-meta/mcp-skills-extension.md

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