community/ai-skills

Install and manage AI agent skills from the open skills ecosystem (skills.sh). Skills are reusable instruction sets that enhance AI agents with procedural knowledge, packaged as SKILL.md files following the Open Agent Skills specification.

This package wraps the skills CLI to integrate with the aux4 ecosystem and installs skills into the skills/ directory, compatible with aux4/ai-agent.

Installation

aux4 aux4 pkger install community/ai-skills

Requires Node.js (for npx).

Quick Start

# Search for available skills
aux4 ai skills find "code review"

# Install all skills from a repository
aux4 ai skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills

# Install a specific skill from a repository
aux4 ai skills add anthropics/skills@skill-creator

# List installed skills
aux4 ai skills list

# Use with aux4/ai-agent
aux4 ai agent ask "Review my code using the code-review skill"

Commands

aux4 ai skills add

Install a skill from a GitHub repository, URL, or local path into the .agents/skills/ directory.

aux4 ai skills add <source>

Sources can be:

• GitHub shorthand (all skills): vercel-labs/agent-skills
• GitHub shorthand (specific skill): anthropics/skills@skill-creator
• Full URL: https://github.com/user/repo
• Local path: ./my-local-skills

aux4 ai skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills
aux4 ai skills add anthropics/skills@skill-creator
aux4 ai skills add ./my-local-skills

For more details see aux4 ai skills add.

aux4 ai skills remove

Remove an installed skill.

aux4 ai skills remove <name>

aux4 ai skills remove code-review

For more details see aux4 ai skills remove.

aux4 ai skills list

List all installed skills in the skills directory.

aux4 ai skills list

For more details see aux4 ai skills list.

aux4 ai skills find

Search the skills registry for available skills.

aux4 ai skills find <query>

aux4 ai skills find "database migration"

For more details see aux4 ai skills find.

aux4 ai skills update

Update all installed skills to their latest versions.

aux4 ai skills update

For more details see aux4 ai skills update.

aux4 ai skills init

Create a new SKILL.md template in the current directory.

aux4 ai skills init <name>

aux4 ai skills init my-new-skill

For more details see aux4 ai skills init.

Skills Directory

Skills are installed into .agents/skills/. This is compatible with aux4/ai-agent, which reads skills from the same directory.

my-project/
├── AGENTS.md
├── .agents/
│   └── skills/
│       ├── code-review/
│       │   └── SKILL.md
│       ├── testing/
│       │   └── SKILL.md
│       └── deploy/
│           └── SKILL.md
└── config.yaml

SKILL.md Format

Each skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md file with YAML frontmatter:

---
name: code-review
description: Review code for bugs, style issues, and security vulnerabilities
---

# Code Review

Instructions for the agent on how to perform code reviews...

License

This package is licensed under the Apache License.

See LICENSE for details.