mcporbital-space-research — Claude Skill

What ships

mcporbital-space-research/
├── SKILL.md
├── README.md
├── references/
│   ├── tool_catalog.md
│   └── safety_policy.md
├── scripts/
│   ├── verify_mcp.sh
│   ├── refusal_message.md
│   └── mission_brief.md.tpl
└── examples/
    └── 01_apophis_brief.md

Mostly markdown + a single bash health-check. The skill is Apache-2.0 and reviewable line-by-line — no opaque binary blobs.

Two commands. Two minutes.

# 1. Drop the skill folder where Claude looks
mkdir -p ~/.config/claude/skills
git clone https://github.com/lysechko1/mcporbital.com-claude-skill \
  ~/.config/claude/skills/mcporbital-space-research

# 2. Confirm the MCP server is reachable
chmod +x ~/.config/claude/skills/mcporbital-space-research/scripts/verify_mcp.sh
~/.config/claude/skills/mcporbital-space-research/scripts/verify_mcp.sh
# expected: "✓ @mcporbital/space-intelligence-mcp reachable. 5 tools advertised."

The verify script exercises the stdio handshake and counts advertised tools — gives a one-line green / red answer.

claude_desktop_config.json

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/ · Windows: %APPDATA%\\Claude\\

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "space-intelligence": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@mcporbital/space-intelligence-mcp@latest"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop after editing. Ask "give me a research brief on 99942 Apophis"— Claude chains search_space_object → get_object_profile → get_asteroid_close_approaches automatically.

When the skill activates

• research <object>
• brief on <object>
• what's near earth
• next pass of <satellite>
• space weather
• kp index
• TLE of
• ephemeris of
• papers about <topic>
• is <asteroid> dangerous
• mission concept
• close approach
• was there a storm on <date>
• + Russian variants — космический объект · астероид · бриф · и т.д.