Quickstart

Authenticate, install your first kit, and invoke its skills from your coding assistant.

This walks you from a fresh install to invoking a kit skill. It assumes ak is already on your PATH — if not, start with Installation.

Authenticate with your account. The session token is stored under ~/.agentkit/auth/ as a mode-0600 file (not in the system keychain).

ak login

Check who you are and what you can install:

ak whoami
ak licenses

A kit is a bundle of skills for a coding assistant. Install one and pick the target runtime — here, Claude Code, installed globally:

ak kit init engineer --target claude-code --global

To install only part of a kit, select or exclude skills:

ak kit install engineer --target codex --global --skills ak-cook,ak-plan

Kit skills are invoked by their slash command inside your assistant, regardless of which kit they came from:

/ak:cook      # shared core skill, available in every kit
/ak:agentize  # an engineer-kit skill

The kit name you type on the command line stays plain (ak kit init engineer); only the slash invocation uses the ak: prefix.

Check for updates on the beta channel:

ak self-update --check --channel beta

Next steps