Skill your agents up.
A minimal CLI to install, version, and sync skills for your AI agents.
Local-first · GitHub-backed · Works with Claude, Gemini, and more.

pip install skillup  ·  uv tool install skillup

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Features

• Interactive install — pick skills from any GitHub repo release
• Multi-repo — manage skills from multiple sources independently
• Lock file — pins commit SHAs for reproducible installs (~/.agents/skills.lock.json)
• Auto-update — upgrade all or specific repos to their latest release or branch head
• Smart cache — skips redundant downloads; override with SKILLUP_CACHE_DIR
• gh integration — uses gh CLI when available, falls back to requests

Installation

pip install skillup
# or
uv tool install skillup

Usage

Add skills

skillup add google/gemini-cli-skills

No releases? Falls back to main automatically. Pin a branch explicitly:

skillup add anthropics/skills --branch main --skill pdf

Remove skills

skillup remove

Update skills

skillup update                              # all repos
skillup update --repo google/gemini-cli-skills  # one repo

Sync (restore from lock file)

skillup sync

Installs skills at the exact pinned SHAs from the lock file — useful for new machines.

Migrate from NPX skills CLI

skillup migrate                       # reads skills-lock.json from repo root
skillup migrate path/to/skills-lock.json

Skill definition

A folder is recognized as a skill when it lives inside a skills/ directory at the repo root and contains a SKILL.md file.

Development

uv sync          # install deps
uv run skillup --help
uv run pytest
uv run pyright skillup

License

MIT