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plamotrack’s MCP tools are deliberately generic — the app doesn’t know what a “HG” grade is or how Bandai kit numbers work. That knowledge lives in agent skills: small instruction files you install alongside the MCP connection that teach your AI assistant the conventions for your hobby. Without a skill, an agent left to its own devices can easily create “Iron-Blooded Orphans”, “IBO”, and “Iron Blooded Orphans” as three different series. With one, records come out consistent.

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The Gunpla skill

There is one skill available right now: plamotrack-gunpla. It covers:
  • Kit naming conventions — how to write kit names consistently across your collection
  • Bandai kit numbers — how to read and record them
  • Grade buckets — HG, MG, PG, RG, SD, and their associated scales
  • Series naming — canonical names for Gundam series (e.g. “Mobile Suit Gundam”, “Iron-Blooded Orphans”) and when abbreviations are and aren’t appropriate
  • Gundam Markers, decals, and consumable categories — so your inventory stays tidy
  • Common retailer names — standard spellings for HLJ, Gundam Base, and other familiar shops

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Installing in Claude Desktop

1

Create a zip of the skill folder

In the plamotrack repo’s skills/ folder, find plamotrack-gunpla/ and zip it:
The zip must contain the plamotrack-gunpla folder, not the loose files inside it. If you’re downloading from GitHub, zip the folder after downloading — don’t zip the individual files directly.
2

Enable Skills in Claude Desktop

In Claude Desktop, go to Settings → Capabilities and make sure Skills is enabled.
3

Upload the skill

Click Upload skill and select the plamotrack-gunpla.zip file you created.
4

Confirm your MCP connection

Make sure Claude is also connected to your plamotrack MCP server. See Claude Desktop if you haven’t set that up yet.
5

Start a collection conversation

The skill loads itself automatically when the conversation touches your collection — you don’t need to invoke it by name. Saying something like “log the three kits I just ordered from HLJ” is enough to activate it.
You don’t need to invoke the skill by name or mention it at all. As long as Claude Desktop is connected to plamotrack and the skill is installed, it activates automatically whenever your collection comes up in conversation.

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Installing in other clients

The SKILL.md file inside the skill folder is plain Markdown. For Claude Code, Claude.ai, or any other agent that has a “system instructions” or “standing context” mechanism, paste the body of SKILL.md directly into that field. The skill doesn’t care how it’s delivered — it just needs to reach your agent’s context.
Skills for other hobbies — armour, aircraft, ships, model rail — are welcome contributions. They follow the same SKILL.md format in the skills/ folder. If you build something other than Gunpla and want to share your naming conventions, open a PR.