I've been going through a lot of MCP skills lately and most of them are... fine.
Useful in a narrow way, but not something you'd think about twice.
These 7 are different. Each one replaced something I was doing manually,
or unlocked something I didn't know was possible. Sharing them here in case
anyone else finds them useful.
1. xAI Grok Search
https://discoveraiskills.com/skills/grok
The thing that always bugged me about AI assistants is the knowledge cutoff.
You ask about something that happened last week and it either hallucinates or
tells you it doesn't know.
Grok Search fixes this. It gives your AI real-time access to the web and
X/Twitter — with actual source citations, not just vibes. You can filter by
domain, account, or date range too.
The part that surprised me: it doesn't just dump results at you. The AI
reasons over them and gives you a synthesized answer. Asked it "what's the
current sentiment on X about [topic]" and got something genuinely useful back.
2. URL to PDF
https://discoveraiskills.com/skills/url2pdf
Embarrassingly simple but I use this almost every day.
Just say "convert this URL to a PDF" and it does it. Clean layout,
mobile-optimized, no API key, no account. It just works.
I use it mostly for saving documentation and articles I want to read later
without worrying about the page changing or disappearing.
3. WPS Office
https://discoveraiskills.com/skills/wps-office
If you use WPS (very common in Asia), this one is genuinely useful.
You can create docs, batch convert formats, manage WPS 365 forms and
flowcharts — all just by describing what you want. The thing that got me
was realizing I could say "convert all the .doc files in this folder to PDF
and rename them by date" and it just... does it. No macro, no script.
4. Bambu Studio AI
https://discoveraiskills.com/skills/bambu-studio-ai
OK this one is a bit niche but if you have a Bambu Lab 3D printer, it's wild.
You can check print status, get slicing recommendations, manage your AMS
filament system, all through conversation. The whole "open Bambu Studio,
check the app, go back to what I was doing" loop is just gone.
Showed this to a friend who does a lot of printing and he immediately asked
how to install it.
5. Pinterest
https://discoveraiskills.com/skills/pinterest
Most integrations give you links. This one gives you the actual images,
rendered right in the chat.
Search by keyword, get full-res images back directly. For anyone doing
visual research or building mood boards, the difference between "here's a
link" and "here's the image" is bigger than it sounds. No more
tab-switching and screenshotting.
6. China Stock Analysis
https://discoveraiskills.com/skills/china-stock-analysis
Real-time A-share and HK stock data with AI analysis, inside your AI agent.
Ask about any Chinese-listed stock and get price data, trend analysis,
a structured report. If you follow the Chinese market, you know how
fragmented the tooling usually is — this consolidates a lot of it into
one place.
7. PLEX-CTL
https://discoveraiskills.com/skills/plex-ctl
For anyone running a Plex server at home: you can now just tell your AI
to play something.
"Play the next episode of Severance on the living room TV" — works.
Search your library, control playback across clients, check what's
currently playing. It's the smart home media control thing that actually
functions as advertised.
Found most of these browsing through discoveraiskills.com — there's a
directory of 36k+ skills there if you want to go down the rabbit hole.
Curious what others are using, drop them below.
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