Agent Skillet

Prepare and serve agent skills!

Agent Skillet helps teams install, version, and sync agent skills inside a repository.

Install

From PyPI (recommended)

uvx agent-skillet init
uv tool install agent-skillet

From source (development)

uv pip install -e .

If you do not already have uv, run:

zsh install.sh

Quick Start

1. Initialize Skillet in your project

   skillet init

   This command prompts which agentic coding tool you're using, then

   • Seeds current project managed by skillet with every bundled skill in skills folder
   • Materializes them under .skillet/skills/<skill_name>/, and mirrors into configured agent folders

2. Add new skills from Github (owner/repo or owner/repo/path[@ref]):

   skillet add anthropics/skills/frontend-design@main

Configuration

1. To configure which agentic coding tool(s) skills show up for (Cursor, Claude Code, and other agents each have their own mirror paths):

   skillet config    # update your agentic coding tool
   skillet sync      # re-apply tracked sources and refresh native mirrors

skillet sync is a local reconciliation command. It reads .skillet/config/sources.json, materializes/removes skills under .skillet/skills/, and updates native mirror directories. It is not a "check for latest remote updates" command.

Browse skills

1. Browse skills publicly with skillet find <query> or local ones with skillet search <query>.

How It Works

• Tracks installed skill sources in .skillet/config/sources.json.
• Materializes installed skills into .skillet/skills/<name>/SKILL.md.
• Mirrors enabled skills into agent-native directories (for example .cursor/skills/ and .claude/skills/).
• Supports local sources and GitHub specs (owner/repo, owner/repo/subpath, owner/repo/subpath@ref).
• GitHub installs download GitHub’s full repository archive tarball for the resolved ref, then copy to the skill folder from your path segment
• skillet sync reconciles to tracked source specs and local managed state; it should not be assumed to always pull newer upstream content when a remote ref moves.

Example sources.json

Each entry maps a skill name to its source. The kind field is either "local" or "github".

{
  "git-os": {
    "kind": "local",
    "source": "git-os"
  },
  "python-design-patterns": {
    "kind": "github",
    "source": "wshobson/agents/python-design-patterns@main"
  },
  "skill-creator": {
    "kind": "github",
    "source": "anthropics/skills/skill-creator"
  }
}

skillet add writes these entries for you — you rarely need to edit the file directly.

Common Commands Examples

# Add a local skill directory (must contain SKILL.md)
skillet add ./team-skills/checkout-flow

# Add all skills from a GitHub repo (owner/repo)
skillet add wshobson/agents

# Add a single skill from a GitHub repo (owner/repo/subpath)
skillet add anthropics/skills/skill-creator

# Pin to a specific branch or tag (owner/repo/subpath@ref)
skillet add wshobson/agents/python-design-patterns@main

# Reconcile tracked sources after editing .skillet/config/sources.json
skillet sync

# Find skills on skills.sh
skillet find <query>

# Search local skills
skillet search <query>

# List installed skills
skillet list

# Remove a skill
skillet remove skill-creator

Tip: skillet.lock records origins with a github: prefix (e.g. github:anthropics/skills/skill-creator). skillet add accepts both forms, so you can copy-paste a lock origin directly as a spec.

Bundled Skills

• find-skills: Discover and install skills from the Agent Skillet ecosystem
• git-os: Conventional commits, atomic changes, and GIT-OS workflow
• sprint: Ticket-to-PR automation with branch and description templates
• deploy-checklist: Pre/post deployment verification checklist

Documentation

• Authoring skills
• Development guide
• Releasing
• TODO

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and encouraged.

• Open an issue first for bug reports, feature requests, or design discussion.
• Keep pull requests focused and small; include clear context in the description.
• Add or update tests when behavior changes.
• Run local checks before opening a PR:

uv sync
ruff check
pytest

• Be respectful and collaborative in reviews so we can keep the project healthy and active!

License

MIT