skills

Overview

This command-line interface tool streamlines the management of agent instructions and skills across various AI coding assistants and platforms. It supports fetching skills from GitHub shorthand, full Git URLs, or local directories, handling global or local installations, symlinking or copying files, managing lockfiles, and synchronizing dependencies directly from node_modules.

Capabilities

• ▸Install skills from git repositories, URLs, or local paths
• ▸Run skills dynamically without permanent installation using `skills use`
• ▸Support global and project-level skill installations
• ▸Synchronize skills automatically from `node_modules`
• ▸Track installed skills and versions via lockfiles (`skills-lock.json`)
• ▸Check and update outdated skills based on remote tree hashes
• ▸Filter and select specific skills interactively or via flags
• ▸Symlink or copy skill files directly into target agent directories

Best for

Installing specialized coding guidelines and prompts from public or private Git repositories into local AI agent environments., Executing an agent skill on the fly without permanent installation by generating targeted prompts or launching interactive coding sessions., Synchronizing project-level or global agent skills using lockfiles and automated dependency crawling for CI/CD pipelines., Authoring, testing, and sharing new custom skills using built-in template initialization and validation utilities.

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Security considerations

The CLI relies on standard user authentication methods like Git credential helpers, SSH keys, and the GitHub CLI (`gh`) to access private repositories. It avoids directly exporting or exposing raw API tokens into the environment when interacting with GitHub.

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