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Use this skill to help users work with the open Agent Skills ecosystem through the skills CLI.

Overview

The skills CLI is the package manager for installable Agent Skills. Use it to discover skills, install them with the right flags, and manage them after installation.

Examples below use bunx skills, but npx skills is the same workflow if Bun is not available in the user's environment.

Always prefer the current CLI syntax:

bunx skills add <source> --skill <name>

Do not use older owner/repo@skill-name examples.

When to Use

Use this skill when the user:

• asks "find a skill for X", "is there a skill for X", or "how do I do X" and X sounds like a reusable workflow
• asks "can you do X" and X sounds like a specialized capability that may already exist as a skill
• wants help with bunx skills, npx skills, skills.sh, skill package installation, or skills-lock.json
• wants to install a skill for a specific agent such as Codex or OpenCode
• wants to list, check, update, remove, restore, sync, back up, or initialize installed skills
• wants help searching for workflows, tools, templates, or domain-specific capabilities such as design, testing, deployment, documentation, or code review

Do not use this skill when the user already has a local skill and wants help writing or improving its contents. In that case, use a skill-authoring workflow instead.

Discovery Workflow

When a user needs a skill, follow this sequence:

1. Identify the domain and task. Examples: React performance, PR review, changelog generation, PDF extraction. Also judge whether the task is common enough that a reusable skill is likely to exist.
2. Check skills.sh first. Prefer well-known, well-installed skills when the domain is already covered there.
3. If the leaderboard does not clearly answer the need, search with: