Getting Started
Skills for Agents gives your AI coding agent superpowers. 15 composable skills that work together without conflict.
What is Skills for Agents?
Traditional AI prompts are monolithic — one giant instruction set that tries to do everything. When you need multiple capabilities, they conflict.
Skills for Agents solves this with domain-specific instruction sets that compose through the SIP (Skills Interoperability Protocol) framework. Each skill owns one aspect of your agent's behavior:
| Domain | Controls | Example Skills |
|---|---|---|
| Voice | Tone, personality, vocabulary | Blogger |
| Density | Token count, verbosity | Caveman, Compress |
| Craft | Visual design, UI/UX | Painter, Harden |
| Process | Workflow, templates, structure | Postmortem, Planner, Slidify |
| Content | Substance being produced | Documenter, Researcher, Learn |
Quick Install
bash
# Install all skills to all detected tools
npx skills-for-agents install
# Install to a specific tool
npx skills-for-agents install --tool claude
npx skills-for-agents install --tool cursor
npx skills-for-agents install --tool windsurfThat's it. Skills are now available as slash commands in your agent.
Your First Composition
Once installed, try invoking skills:
# Single skill
/caveman full
# Layered composition (both apply simultaneously)
/blog technical + /caveman lite
# Pipeline composition (sequential)
/postmortem → /compress
# Natural language (auto-detected)
"Write a blog about the UI incident, make it terse"Supported Tools
| Tool | Install Format | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Folder (.claude/skills/) | Global or project |
| Cursor | Files (.cursor/rules/) | Project only |
| Windsurf | Files (.windsurf/rules/) | Project only |
| Codex (OpenAI) | Merged (codex.md) | Project only |
| OpenClaude | Folder (.openclaude/skills/) | Global |
| Kiro (Amazon) | Folder (.kiro/steering/) | Global or project |
| Zed | Merged (.rules) | Project only |
| Cline | Folder (.clinerules/) | Project only |
| Aider | Merged (CONVENTIONS.md) | Project only |
| GitHub Copilot | Merged (.github/copilot-instructions.md) | Project only |
| Continue | Folder (.continue/rules/) | Global or project |
Next Steps
- Installation — Detailed install options
- Your First Skill — Walk through using a skill
- Composition — How skills work together
- Skills Catalog — Browse all 15 skills