> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.agentscope.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

> ## Agent Instructions
> For AgentScope Python, use https://docs.agentscope.io/stable/en/index for new projects. For existing projects, check the installed agentscope version and use matching versioned documentation.
> The /latest/ alias points to the newest documentation and may move ahead of /stable/ when a development version exists. Do not mix AgentScope 1.x and 2.x APIs.
> State the AgentScope version when providing installation commands or code examples. ReMe uses its own continuously updated /reme/latest/ documentation.

# Overview

> Plug sources of MCP servers and skills into your service.

An MCP or skill hub is a source of MCP servers and skills that you register in code on your [Agent Service](https://docs.agentscope.io/en/versions/2.0.12dev/deploy/agent-service.md), and that users then assign to a given agent in a chat. A hub can be a trusted third-party service, or your own implementation.

Hubs come in two kinds, one per resource type:

> **[MCP Hub](https://docs.agentscope.io/en/versions/2.0.12dev/deploy/hub/mcp-hub.md)**
>
> Install [MCP](https://docs.agentscope.io/en/versions/2.0.12dev/building-blocks/tool/mcp.md) servers, and configure their credentials.

> **[Skill Hub](https://docs.agentscope.io/en/versions/2.0.12dev/deploy/hub/skill-hub.md)**
>
> Install [skills](https://docs.agentscope.io/en/versions/2.0.12dev/building-blocks/tool/skill.md) published by others.

## How It Works

Installing and equipping are two separate steps, so a user configures something once and reuses it everywhere afterwards:

**1. Install into the pool**

The user browses a hub and installs an MCP server or a skill, along with any credentials they entered. Every hub feeds the same pool, so what came from which source stops mattering once it is installed.

**2. Equip an agent's workspace**

In a chat, the user picks from the pool to add it to that agent's [workspace](https://docs.agentscope.io/en/versions/2.0.12dev/deploy/workspace-manager.md). Its tools reach the agent immediately.

The pool belongs to the user, not to a chat. The same MCP server can be equipped in ten different workspaces without entering its API key again, and it outlives every one of them.

> [!TIP]
>
> Hubs are optional. Without any registered, users can still add MCP servers by pasting a configuration and skills by uploading a folder.

## Further Reading

> **[Agent Service](https://docs.agentscope.io/en/versions/2.0.12dev/deploy/agent-service.md)**
>
> The hosting layer a hub plugs into.

> **[Workspace Manager](https://docs.agentscope.io/en/versions/2.0.12dev/deploy/workspace-manager.md)**
>
> Where an equipped MCP server or skill runs.


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