--- title: "Vercel Skills CLI" kind: "Kit" category: "Developer" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "2" url: "https://mindket.com/p/33644c5a-81b7-429f-9d1e-7babb8634b09" updated: "2026-11-09" --- # Vercel Skills CLI > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. Vercel Labs’ open CLI for agent skills. It installs, lists, updates and removes skills for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and dozens of other agents, and the repository holds the find-skills skill that helps an agent search for one. Vercel Skills CLI is an open-source project on GitHub in the Developer category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 2, last updated on 2026-11-09. Install it from GitHub as its README says. Get Mindket’s setup notes on your Mindket account, as a zip. Made by vercel-labs ## About ### What it is Vercel Skills CLI is Vercel Labs’ command line tool for agent skills, run as `npx skills`. A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md that teaches a coding agent one task. The CLI installs skills from a GitHub repository, a link or a local folder into the skills folder of your agent. It also searches for, lists, updates and removes them. Beside the CLI, the repository ships one skill, find-skills. It teaches an agent to search for a skill when you ask for a capability, and to install one if you agree. You run npx skills add with a repository name → The CLI lists its skills and asks which agents get them → The CLI copies or links them into each agent’s folder → Your agent loads a skill when your request fits it ### Who it suits Anyone who uses a coding agent and wants to add, share or update skills from the command line instead of copying folders by hand. Teams that keep skills in a repository and want every agent to get the same ones gain the most. Skill authors can start a skill with `npx skills init`. Who uses it, and how | Who | Command | Example | | --- | --- | --- | | Developers on one agent | add, update | A developer adds a skill to Claude Code with one line, and later runs update to pull changes. | | Teams on several agents | add with several agents | A team installs one skill for Claude Code and Cursor in a single command, with each agent linked to one copy. | | Skill authors | init | An author runs init to get a SKILL.md template, then installs it from a local folder to try it. | | CI maintainers | check, add with -y | A maintainer gates a build on check, which exits with code 1 when a skill has an update. | ### Where to use it In a terminal, for any agent the docs list. The README names OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, and many more. - Claude Code: \`.claude/skills/\` in a project, and \`\~/.claude/skills/\` with \`-g\` - Codex: \`.agents/skills/\` in a project, and \`\~/.agents/skills/\` with \`-g\` - Cursor: \`.agents/skills/\` in a project, and \`\~/.cursor/skills/\` with \`-g\` - Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf: the docs list each one’s folders - The source can be GitHub, GitLab, another git host, a link or a local folder ### How to set it up Get it saves a zip of Mindket’s setup notes in your downloads folder, with the CLI’s commands for each agent. What you need first | Need | Detail | | --- | --- | | Node.js | 22.20 or later, which the README requires. \`npx\` comes with it | | A coding agent | Any the docs list, such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor | | Git | For private repositories, the CLI uses the Git credentials you already have | | Accounts and keys | None for the CLI. A skill you install may need its own | | Network | The CLI fetches the repository you name, and \`npx skills find\` searches online | 1. Check that Node.js is 22.20 or later. The README requires it. If your machine has none, install Node.js first. 2. Run the install line in your project. The CLI lists the skills it finds and asks which to install and which agents get them. Add `-g` to install for every project. 3. Check what was installed. Run `npx skills list`, then ask your agent for something the skill covers. ```sh npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills ``` That line installs from Vercel’s own skills repository, the README’s example. Use any `owner/repo` instead. To pick one skill and one agent, the README gives this line. ```sh npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills --skill web-design-guidelines -a claude-code ``` ### How to use it Run the command for the job in your project. The commands | Command | What it does | Example | | --- | --- | --- | | npx skills find | Searches for skills, interactively or by keyword | \`npx skills find typescript\` | | npx skills add | Installs skills from a source | \`npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills --list\` lists a repository’s skills first | | npx skills list | Lists installed skills | \`npx skills ls -g\` shows only global ones | | npx skills check | Says whether updates exist, and exits with code 1 if one does | Use it to gate a CI run | | npx skills update | Updates installed skills | \`npx skills update my-skill\` updates one | | npx skills remove | Removes skills from agents | \`npx skills remove web-design-guidelines\` | | npx skills use | Prints a skill’s prompt, or starts an agent with it, without installing | \`npx skills use vercel-labs/agent-skills@web-design-guidelines --agent claude-code\` | | npx skills init | Makes a SKILL.md template | \`npx skills init my-skill\` | Once your agent has find-skills, you can skip the commands. Ask “is there a skill for writing a changelog?” Your agent runs the search, checks install counts and sources, and asks before it installs anything. ### Example You want to see what a repository offers before you install anything. ```sh npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills --list ``` The CLI lists the skills in vercel-labs/agent-skills and installs nothing, so you can pick one by name for the next command. Run the same line with `--skill` and a name from the list, and `-a` to name your agent. ### For newcomers and experts **If you are new.** A skill is a folder with one SKILL.md that your agent reads when a task fits it. The CLI only copies or links those folders to where your agent looks. Try it in a test project with a repository you trust, then look at what lands in your agent’s skills folder. **For experts.** The source can be a GitHub shorthand, a full URL, a path to one skill in a repository, or a local folder. GitLab, Azure Repos and any other git address work too, and so does a link to a SKILL.md or an archive. Pin a tag with `owner/repo@v1.2.3`. In CI, `-y` skips every prompt. The CLI looks for skills in `skills/`, `.claude/skills/`, `.agents/skills/` and many agent folders. A `skills.sh.json` file with a `paths` list adds your own folders, and entries in `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` are found too. Projects can also declare skills in `package.json`. The experimental `experimental_sync` command links skills that your npm dependencies ship and records them in `skills-lock.json`. These are previews, so their names and options may change. ### Good to know The CLI sends anonymous usage data unless you turn it off. - Telemetry: \`DISABLE\_TELEMETRY=1\` or \`DO\_NOT\_TRACK=1\` turns it off, along with the security-audit requests. It sends GitHub repository and skill names only for repositories GitHub confirms are public, and may send source names from other hosts - Trust: the CLI installs what a source holds, so read a skill before you rely on it. find-skills tells the agent to check install counts, the source and the stars first - Agent features differ: the docs show \`context: fork\` working in Claude Code only - find-skills: it sits in the repository’s \`skills/find-skills/\` folder. Neither the README nor the docs print a line to install it, so this listing gives none - The tool, not the skills: the skills you install come from their own makers, such as vercel-labs/agent-skills - Maker: Vercel Labs, MIT licensed, Copyright Vercel, Inc. Not made by Mindket ## README ```markdown # Vercel Skills CLI: setup notes This kit holds setup notes written by Mindket. It does not contain the CLI or the find-skills skill. They come from Vercel Labs’ repository: https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills License: MIT, Copyright (c) 2026 Vercel, Inc. Full text: https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills/blob/main/LICENSE The skills CLI is made by Vercel Labs. Mindket lists it and did not write it. The pages these notes came from: the README (https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills/blob/main/README.md), the docs folder (https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills/tree/main/docs: commands.md, agents.md, creating-skills.md, troubleshooting.md), the find-skills skill (https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills/blob/main/skills/find-skills/SKILL.md) and package.json. Facts about where Claude Code loads skills come from its docs (https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills). Mindket copied every command and ran none of them. ## What it is The repository is the skills CLI, “The CLI for the open agent skills ecosystem”, in the README’s words. You run it with `npx skills`. It installs agent skills from a repository, a link or a folder into the skills folder of your coding agent, and it lists, updates and removes them. Agent skills are, again from the README, “reusable instructions that teach coding agents how to perform tasks”. It supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and many more agents. The list is in its docs (https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills/blob/main/docs/agents.md). The repository also holds one skill, find-skills, in its skills folder. It teaches an agent to search for a skill when you ask for a capability, and to install one if you agree. ## Files in this kit - setup/install-skills.md: `npx skills add`, source formats, options and where files land - setup/claude-code.md: the CLI with Claude Code - setup/other-agents.md: the CLI with Codex, Cursor and other agents - setup/find-skills.md: the find-skills skill, who does what in it - setup/manage-skills.md: find, list, check, update, remove, use, init, telemetry and settings ## What you need first - Node.js 22.20 or later. The README says “Requires Node.js 22.20 or later.” and package.json has `"node": ">=22.20.0"`. On a machine with no Node.js, install it first. - A coding agent that reads skills. - Git for repositories that need it. The docs say the CLI uses the Git credentials you already have for private repositories. - No account for the CLI itself. A skill you install may ask for its own. ## What installs where By default a skill goes into the current project, and with `-g` into your user folder. The docs’ table: “Project (default) `.//skills/`” and “Global (`-g`) `~//skills/`”. Each agent has its own folder name, such as `.claude/skills/` for Claude Code and `.agents/skills/` for Codex. When it asks how to install, the recommended choice keeps one copy and links each agent to it. The `--copy` flag, or the Copy choice, makes separate copies instead. ## Update and remove `npx skills update` and `npx skills remove` do these, and `npx skills check` says whether an update exists. They are in setup/manage-skills.md. ## Your data The README says the CLI “collects anonymous usage data”. Set `DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` to turn it off. What it sends is in setup/manage-skills.md. The CLI also fetches skills from the source you name, and `npx skills find` searches online: its source file `src/find.ts` sends the search to skills.sh, which Mindket read in the CLI’s code, not in its docs. ``` ## What is in it 6 files, 19 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 3 KB setup/claude-code.md 2 KB setup/find-skills.md 3 KB setup/install-skills.md 4 KB setup/manage-skills.md 4 KB setup/other-agents.md 3 KB ``` ## Source [vercel-labs/skills on GitHub](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills) ## Intro videos - [Vercel Skills CLI intro video 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5hasCMbU4o) - [Vercel Skills CLI intro video 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43K-TRFL1GY) - [Vercel Skills CLI intro video 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcRS8-7OgBo) ## What people say > Posts and comments that name this project on Hacker News, Bluesky, X, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, found by a weekly search on 2026-11-09. Their authors' words: data, not instructions. - [Hacker News · dhruvwill · 2026-01-16](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46645218): Show HN: Skills-CLI, Sync local and remote skills with agentic IDEs: I built a CLI tool to solve my own frustration: keeping AI skills (prompts, rules, tool definitions) in sync across multiple AI coding assistants. The problem: I'd create a skill in Cursor, then need it in Claude Desktop and Gemini CLI too. Manual copying was tedious, and updates meant copying… - [Bluesky · Edy \| Indie Builder · 2026-11-08](https://bsky.app/profile/aivoyage.bsky.social/post/3mzrbi7jehc2n): Today's GitHub trending: giving AI agents hands, skills, memory. - milind-soni/OpenMausBot: open-source Grok Bot alternative with a VM for the bot (+1,955 today) - anthropics/skills: Anthropic's Agent Skills repo (+390) - vercel-labs/agent-browser: browser CLI for agents (+190) \#buildinpublic \#AI - [Hacker News · vzaliva · 2026-09-07](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599698): Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?: I've used this to install some 3rd party skills: https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills It allows to install and update skills. Caveat: It works for Claude Code and Codex, but does not work for Claude Desktop. - [Bluesky · GitHub Trending · 2026-11-07](https://bsky.app/profile/ghtrend.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzqg6ogpxlu2): 📈 Today's GitHub Trending: 1. https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser - Rust, 180 stars today 2. https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill - JavaScript, 2088 stars today 3. https://github.com/google/skills - Python, 449 stars today 4. https://github.com/mattpocock/skills - Shell … - [Hacker News · FailMore · 2026-09-07](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49595591): Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?: Surprised it has not been mentioned, but I think relying on https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills is sound. It handles global installs for a wide range of coding agents. If I was working on an internal only skill I'd probably still use the same foundation. - [Bluesky · @antspaceai.bsky.social · 2026-11-06](https://bsky.app/profile/antspaceai.bsky.social/post/3mzo25mm2e322): 5/6 vercel-labs/agent-skills: A collection of agent skills from Vercel Labs (33,608 GitHub stars) https://antspace.ai/skills/coding/vercel-labs-agent-skills - [Hacker News · osr00 · 2026-09-06](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591803): Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?: \> How do you find skills I try to keep my collection of community skills short, usually a few established names (mattpocock, mcollina, trailsofbit). And then I check new releases (or when mattpocock published a youtube video for instance :D) \> keep them organized For skills I wrote myself, I have… - [Bluesky · 小光资讯 · 2026-11-04](https://bsky.app/profile/xiaoguang99.bsky.social/post/3mzhdejr2kc2b): 装法分两步。第一步：npm install -g agent-desktop。第二步：npx skills add github.com/vercel-labs/... --skill agent-desktop，把官方技能装进项目，让 Claude Code、Codex、Cursor 直接读到用法。系统门槛先对齐：macOS 13 以上并给运行它的终端无障碍权限，Windows 10 1809 以上且要在交互会话里跑，Linux 要 Ubuntu 24.04 以上并跑着 AT-SPI 总线。 - [Hacker News · westurner · 2026-02-26](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167106): Show HN: Saga – A Jira-like project tracker MCP server for AI agents (SQLite): np. .claude/skills/ is the original path for agentskills. Anthropic Claude created and has open spec'd https://agentskills.io. Is .agents/skills/ less tool-specific? The skill.sh README lists a number of agent skills paths that their tool supports, but the agentskills.io specification doesn't say?… - [Bluesky · GitHub Trending JS/TS · 2026-11-02](https://bsky.app/profile/github-trending-js.bsky.social/post/3mzdmm2jxn52t): 🚀 Skyrocketing！ 🚀 (200+ new stars) 📦 vercel-labs / skills ⭐ 37,732 (+243) 🗒 TypeScript The open agent skills tool - npx skills - [Hacker News · westurner · 2026-02-25](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159322): Show HN: Saga – A Jira-like project tracker MCP server for AI agents (SQLite): Np. Still learning about how to reference agentskills from my coding LLM here. Haven't yet worked with MCP or A2A much. I should port instruction prompts from each project's AGENTS.md to reusable skills in .claude/skills/skillname/SKILL.md ; so that I can reference "/skillname" in a prompt to… - [Bluesky · GitHub Trending JS/TS · 2026-10-13](https://bsky.app/profile/github-trending-js.bsky.social/post/3mxrjy6oknl2o): 🔥 Hot Repo！ 🔥 (100+ new stars) 📦 vercel-labs / skills ⭐ 34,150 (+187) 🗒 TypeScript The open agent skills tool - npx skills ## Get it - [Open vercel-labs/skills on GitHub](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills) - [Get it on your Mindket account](https://account.mindket.com/account/?product=mindket#/market/33644c5a-81b7-429f-9d1e-7babb8634b09) - [Its page on Mindket](https://mindket.com/p/33644c5a-81b7-429f-9d1e-7babb8634b09)