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CLI commands

ak skill verify

Report the per-skill runtime env health (ok | missing | corrupt)

Read the per-skill manifest at ~/.agentkit/skills/<kit>/<skill>/.manifest.json and the live runtime block; report ok / missing / corrupt / unknown.

Who it's for: Power devs, CI scripts, drift-reconciliation jobs.

When to use it: After a fresh checkout, after editing skill.yaml, in CI to detect drift.

What changes on disk: Read-only.

Usage

ak skill verify <kit>/<skill> [flags]

Examples

ak skill verify marketing/youtube
ak skill verify engineer/web-testing --json

Flags

FlagDescription
-h, --helphelp for verify
--jsonEmit machine-readable JSON (implies --no-interactive)
--kits-dir stringKits directory (default: ./kits or $AGENTKIT_KITS_DIR)
--no-interactiveDisable interactive prompts (CI-safe)
-q, --quietSuppress non-error output on stderr
-V, --verboseExtra diagnostic output on stderr (loses to --quiet)
-y, --yesAssume yes for all prompts

Output modes

ModeBehavior
prettydefault on TTY (colors, ASCII markers)
plainauto when stdout piped or --no-interactive
json--json (single-object envelope, NDJSON-safe)

Exit codes

CodeMeaning
0success
1runtime error
2invalid flags
3user-cancel (SIGINT, prompt-cancel)
4skill has no runtime block
5kit or skill not found
  • ak skill — Manage per-skill runtime envs

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