skills
skills is a command-line tool that finds, installs, and manages instruction packs that teach coding agents specific tasks for developers.
What it is good for
- Installing reusable instructions into a coding agent
- Finding ready-made skills for a coding task
- Keeping installed agent skills up to date
- Removing agent skills no longer needed
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Guided command-line setup
Level 4 of 5. You copy and paste commands into a terminal by following the instructions. Comfortable territory for vibe coders.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Other
- Tasks
- Works with
- OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
Momentum
- Rank this week
- Not ranked yet
- Best rank
- None yet
- GitHub stars
- 37,706
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is skills free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (MIT license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use skills?
- You do not need to write code, but setup means copying and pasting commands into a terminal by following its instructions.
- What does skills work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.
- What is skills good for?
- Installing reusable instructions into a coding agent, finding ready-made skills for a coding task, keeping installed agent skills up to date, and removing agent skills no longer needed.
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