The skilld CLI

Search, run, install, and keep Skills current.

Give your Agent Skills that real maintainers write. A run reads the current source every time, and one command updates the Skills you install. Install the skilld Skill once, and your Agent searches and loads Skills on its own.

Open-source CLINo telemetry73 Agent targets

Teach your agent skilld

npx skilld install skilld --global

Install the CLI

curl -fsSL https://skilld.dev/install.sh | sh

One native binary. It upgrades itself from signed releases.

Three ways in, smallest first

The first two install nothing.

Give your Agent a Skill URL
Your Agent reads the page and follows the Skill for that session. Nothing lands in your project.
Use this Skill: https://skilld.dev/gh/antfu/skills/vue
Run it from a terminal
A run prints the SKILL.md for your Agent and writes no file. Switch to install when you want the Skill in every session.
npx skilld run antfu/skills/vue
Reads the Skill now. Writes nothing.
Install the CLI and the skilld Skill
Run the two commands at the top of this page. Then ask your Agent in your own words.
Find a skilld Skill for Vue and use it

What each command does

Every example uses antfu/skills/vue.

search

Finds Skills in the registry and prints the selector that run and install take.

npx skilld search vue

run

Prints the SKILL.md and writes no file. Your Agent follows it for this session only.

npx skilld run antfu/skills/vue

install

Writes the Skill to the project, the lockfile, and each Agent it detects.

npx skilld install antfu/skills/vue

keep current

The first command reports each installed Skill whose source moved. The second moves one to its current source commit.

npx skilld outdatednpx skilld update vue

remove

Removes an installed Skill. A run leaves nothing to remove.

npx skilld remove vue

Run or install?

Question	skilld run	skilld install
Use it for	The task in front of you	Every session in this project
Files written	None	.skills, the lockfile, and Agent targets
Cleanup	None	`skilld remove`
Updates	Loads the source each time	`skilld update`
Skill scripts	Never printed or executed	On disk for the Skill to use

Start with run. Install when you reach for the same Skill again.

Built for an Agent to drive

One install, 73 Agent targets

skilld install detects the Agents you use and writes the same Skill to each. Name one with --agent:

claude-code
cursor
windsurf
cline
codex
github-copilot
gemini-cli
goose
amp
opencode
roo
antigravity

Claude Code: Start a new Claude Code session. Skills load automatically.
Cursor: Restart Cursor. Skills appear under Settings, Cursor Rules.
Windsurf: Restart Windsurf. Skills invoke when their description matches.
Cline: Restart your editor. Cline reads skill descriptions at startup.
Codex: Start a new Codex session. Skills are discovered at startup.
GitHub Copilot: Restart your editor. Copilot reads .github/skills at startup.
Gemini CLI: Start a new Gemini CLI session. Verify with /skills list.
Goose: Start a new Goose session. Skills are discovered at startup.
Amp: Start a new Amp session. Skill descriptions load at startup.
OpenCode: Start a new OpenCode session. Skills are discovered at startup.
Roo Code: Restart your editor. Roo reads skill descriptions at startup.
Antigravity: Restart Antigravity. Skills are discovered at startup.
OpenClaw: Start a new OpenClaw session. Verify with openclaw skills list.
Hermes Agent: Start a new Hermes session. Verify with /skills. Project Skills load after hermes skills trust.
Kiro CLI: Start a new Kiro CLI session. Type / to see Skills as slash commands.
Kilo Code: Run /reload in Kilo Code, or start a new session. Then ask which Skills it has.
Droid: Start a new Droid session. Verify with /skills.
Trae: Open Trae. Skills appear under Settings, Skills & Commands.
Zed: No restart needed. Type / in the Zed message editor to pick a Skill.

For the other Agents, check that the Skill landed in its folder:

Where each other Agent's Skills land in your project
AiderDesk	.aider-desk/skills
Antigravity CLI	.agents/skills
AstrBot	data/skills
Augment	.augment/skills
IBM Bob	.bob/skills
CodeArts Agent	.codeartsdoer/skills
CodeBuddy	.codebuddy/skills
Codemaker	.codemaker/skills
Code Studio	.codestudio/skills
Command Code	.commandcode/skills
Continue	.continue/skills
Cortex Code	.cortex/skills
Crush	.crush/skills
Deep Agents	.agents/skills
Devin for Terminal	.devin/skills
Dexto	.agents/skills
Firebender	.agents/skills
ForgeCode	.forge/skills
fx	.fx/skills
inference.sh	.inferencesh/skills
Jazz	.jazz/skills
Junie	.junie/skills
iFlow CLI	.iflow/skills
Kimchi	.kimchi/skills
Kimi Code CLI	.agents/skills
Kode	.kode/skills
Lingma	.lingma/skills
Loaf	.agents/skills
MCPJam	.mcpjam/skills
MiniMax Code	.minimax/skills
Moxby	.moxby/skills
Mux	.mux/skills
OpenHands	.openhands/skills
Ona	.ona/skills
Pi	.agents/skills
Posit Assistant	.posit/assistant/skills
Qoder	.qoder/skills
Qoder CN	.qoder/skills
Qwen Code	.qwen/skills
Replit	.agents/skills
Reasonix	.reasonix/skills
Rovo Dev	.rovodev/skills
Sarvam Code	.agents/skills
Tabnine CLI	.tabnine/agent/skills
Terramind	.terramind/skills
Tinycloud	.tinycloud/skills
Trae CN	.trae/skills
Warp	.agents/skills
ZCode	.zcode/skills
Zencoder	.zencoder/skills
Zenflow	.zencoder/skills
Neovate	.neovate/skills
Pochi	.pochi/skills
AdaL	.adal/skills

Every install pins a commit

The lockfile records the exact source commit. Before a file lands, the CLI checks the Artifact digest, the Artifact attestation, the check results, and the archive.

Five behaviors stop and ask

Five Skill behaviors stop a remote run or install until you approve them. They include running code from the network and reading credential files. Your Agent gets the exact approval command. The checks use fixed text patterns, which miss obfuscated code.

One native binary

No runtime to install, and it starts in under a millisecond. A curl or PowerShell install upgrades itself from signed releases. An npm install runs the same executable, and npm handles its upgrades.

No telemetry

The CLI sends no analytics. Your account credentials go to the operating system keychain, never to a plain text file.

Add it to Claude Code

The plugin installs the skilld-maintained Skills and adds the skilld.dev MCP server. Run these in Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add skilld-dev/skilld
/plugin install skilld@skilld

The MCP server searches the registry and returns run and install commands. It never runs a Skill.

Set up MCP, the API, or the SDK

Every command and flag

The reference holds the help text for every command, including the registry and account commands this page skips.

Read the CLI reference