install-skills

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Install one or more agent skills into the current repository with the skills CLI. Use when adding, refreshing, or restoring project-local skills, when a user names a skill source, or when a repository needs shared skills installed without mutating global agent state.

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Sourcepatinaproject/skills

Added on2026-05-22

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add patinaproject/skills install-skills

SKILL.md Content

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install-skills

Install skills project-locally so the repository, not the operator's global environment, owns the shared workflow catalog.

Preflight

Read repository guidance first:
```
AGENTS.md
```
,
```
CLAUDE.md
```
if present, and any docs governing agent skills or shared tooling.
Inspect the current catalog if present:
bash
```
test -f skills-lock.json && npm_config_ignore_scripts=true npx --yes skills@latest list --json
```
If the repository exposes a wrapper such as
```
pnpm skills:list
```
, use that instead of the raw CLI list command.
Resolve the requested source and skill names. If the source contents or requested skill names are ambiguous, list before installing:
bash
```
npm_config_ignore_scripts=true npx --yes skills@latest add <source> --list
```

Install

Run installs from the repository root. Do not use

--global

.

Canonical single-source install:

bash

npm_config_ignore_scripts=true npx --yes skills@latest add <source> --skill <skill-name> --agent '*' --yes

For multiple skills from the same source, repeat

--skill

values as separate arguments after one flag:

bash

npm_config_ignore_scripts=true npx --yes skills@latest add <source> --skill <skill-a> <skill-b> --agent '*' --yes

For all skills from a source, prefer an explicit all-agent install:

bash

npm_config_ignore_scripts=true npx --yes skills@latest add <source> --skill '*' --agent '*' --yes

Use a pinned source when reproducibility matters:

bash

npm_config_ignore_scripts=true npx --yes skills@latest add owner/repo#<git-ref> --skill <skill-name> --agent '*' --yes

Patina Sources

For Patina Project marketplace skills, use

patinaproject/skills

as the source and install only the requested skills unless the user explicitly asks for all.

Active Patina scaffold defaults are:

```
scaffold-repository
```
```
using-github
```
```
new-branch
```
```
develop-issue
```
```
finish-pr
```
```
review-code
```
```
install-skills
```

Verify

After installing, prove what changed:

bash

npm_config_ignore_scripts=true npx --yes skills@latest list --json
git status --short

If the repository exposes wrapper scripts, also run:

bash

pnpm skills:list

Report the installed skills, the source used, and the changed lockfile or agent overlay paths. Stop before committing unless the user asked you to finish the branch.

install-skills

NPX Install

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install-skills

Preflight

Install

Patina Sources

Verify