Adding skills

From your library

Add skills you already have by name:

skilless add code-review frontend-design

Run skilless add with no names to pick from your library. Skills that are global show as installed and can't be picked, since every project already has them.

From a git repository

Pass a repository first, as owner/repo or any git URL, then the skills to take from it:

skilless add vercel-labs/agent-skills web-design-guidelines

Leave out the skill names to pick from everything in the repository. The skills are copied into your library, remembering where they came from, and added to this project. If your library already has a skill with the same name, skilless keeps yours unless you pass --overwrite.

From a skill or pack on skilless

A skill or a pack on skilless is added by its owner's username:

skilless add @ieedan/grill-me
skilless add @ieedan/pack/svelte-essentials

Its full link works too: skilless.dev/skills/ieedan/grill-me, or skilless.dev/packs/ieedan/svelte-essentials.

A pack adds every skill it lists, and skilless update brings in any it gains later.

Keeping them up to date

skilless update brings skills you added from a repository up to date with what the repository has now:

skilless update                  # every skill added from a repository
skilless update frontend-design  # just this one

If you've edited a skill since adding it, update leaves it alone. Pass --force to replace it anyway. Your edited copy is kept first, so nothing is lost.

Removing and deleting

These are different on purpose:

• skilless remove <skills...> takes skills out of this project. They stay in your library and in every other project.
• skilless delete <skills...> deletes skills from your library, which removes them from every project on every machine. skilless asks first. If you're signed in, you can restore a deleted skill from skilless.dev for 30 days.

Importing a folder of skills

If you have a folder of skills, where each subfolder holds a SKILL.md, bring them all into your library at once:

skilless import ~/old-skills

Importing only fills your library. Add the skills to projects afterwards with skilless add.