ak skills

What it does: (For per-skill runtime env management - verify, repair, upgrade - see ak skill. This command browses and installs from kits.) List, install, remove, show, and search individual skills from any kit. Skills are the primary unit of value users install / discover.

Who it's for: Both: power devs scripting installs (--json) and users browsing what's available.

When to use it: Use as the entry point for any per-skill catalog operation; subcommands handle the action.

Examples: ak skills list # show what's installed + available ak skills search browser # find skills matching a keyword ak skills install engineer/agent-browser # install one skill ak skills show engineer/agent-browser # inspect metadata ak skills remove engineer/agent-browser # uninstall

What changes on disk: Read-only at this group level; subcommands document their own effects.

Output modes: pretty default on TTY (colors, ASCII markers) plain auto when stdout piped or --no-interactive json --json (single-object envelope, NDJSON-safe)

Exit codes: 0 success 1 runtime error 2 invalid flags 3 user-cancel (SIGINT, prompt-cancel)

Options

  -h, --help             help for skills
      --json             Emit machine-readable JSON (implies --no-interactive)
      --no-interactive   Disable interactive prompts (CI-safe)
  -q, --quiet            Suppress non-error output on stderr
  -V, --verbose          Extra diagnostic output on stderr (loses to --quiet)
  -y, --yes              Assume yes for all prompts

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