Connect your AI to your company's skills

Your manager sent you a staff key by email. Add it to the AI app you already use and it will read the skills your team published, always the latest version. It takes about two minutes.

Paste the key from your email

Every snippet contains <YOUR_KEY>. Replace it with the full key from your email: the cek_ prefix included, nothing else around it (no spaces, no quotes). This page never shows or asks for your key.

VS Code

Visual Studio Code with GitHub Copilot Chat in agent mode.

Steps

1In your project, create .vscode/mcp.json. To use it in every project, run "MCP: Open User Configuration" from the Command Palette instead.
2Paste the snippet. The top-level key is servers, not mcpServers as in other apps.
3Replace <YOUR_KEY> with the key from your email, then save the file.
4Run "MCP: List Servers" from the Command Palette, pick the server and choose Start. Then open Copilot Chat in Agent mode.

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "coreskill": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "<YOUR_HUB_URL>",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Check that it works

Open a new chat and ask:

Prompt

List my skills

The AI calls list_skills and answers with the skills you can use. An empty list is not an error: nothing has been shared with your department yet.

Troubleshooting

401, unauthorized or invalid key: The key is wrong, revoked or expired. Check you pasted the whole key with no spaces and kept "Bearer " in front of it. If it still fails, ask your manager for a new key.
Connected, but no skills listed: Nothing has been shared with your department yet, or you are in a different department than expected. Ask your manager which skill servers your department can see.
The connector shows no tools: The snippet still contains <YOUR_KEY> or <YOUR_HUB_URL>, or the app was not restarted. Fix the placeholders, restart the app and check again.
Lost the key or deleted the email: The key is shown only once and cannot be recovered. Ask your manager to issue a new one; the old one can be revoked.
It worked, then suddenly stopped: The key was revoked or expired, or your access changed. Ask your manager.

More detail in the user guide