vercel-labs/skills is a command-line workflow for obtaining, installing, using, searching, and managing reusable skills for agent environments. It supports installing skills into project or global agent skill directories and using a selected skill without permanent installation.
Project overview
It combines a common workflow across supported agent environments with a temporary, prompt-generating use mode and a symlink-based installation method intended to maintain a canonical copy and simplify updates.
Project type
AI Agent
Use cases
Automation
Deployment
Refer to project documentation
License
MIT
Best for
Developers working with reusable skills across supported agent environments and needing a CLI workflow for installation or management.
Users who need either project-scoped or user-wide skill installation, or temporary use without permanent installation.
Key capabilities
Adds skills from supported sources for use in project or global agent skill directories.
Resolves a selected skill into a temporary directory and prints a generated prompt without permanently installing the skill.
Lists, removes, and updates installed skills, and can initialize a new SKILL.md template.
Installs skills in project scope by default or in a user-wide global scope with the global option.
Creates a new SKILL.md template for starting a skill.
Limitations and risks
Direct downloads and extracted archives are subject to documented default size and file-count limits. Check those limits when selecting or distributing skill sources.
The supplied documentation names some supported agents but does not provide the full list. Confirm that the target agent environment is supported before adoption.
Getting started
The documented first-success path is to run npx skills add with a skill source.
Evidence and sources
GitHub project description: The open agent skills tool - npx skills
README: npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills
README: `skills use` resolves sources the same way as `skills add`, writes the selected skill files to a temporary directory, and prints only the generated prompt to stdout unless `--agen…
README: npx skills add ./my-local-skills
README: Direct download URLs are tried after well-known discovery. They may point to a single valid `SKILL.md` file or a `.zip`, `.tar`, `.tar.gz`, or `.tgz` archive; the URL does not nee…