# Manage Agent Skills with the Skills CLI

Finding and maintaining agent skills can be slow across tools and machines. This skill guides discovery, installation, updates, backups, and troubleshooting with the skills CLI.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add xixu-me/skills-cli
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: xixu-me-skills-cli
- Skillstore revision: r1
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: 016ee6469075a6754f90b7b4e4d06972dfdc89934fe48502fde54f17da6b6991
- Author: xixu-me
- GitHub username: xixu-me
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/xixu-me/skills/tree/main/skills/skills-cli/
- Ref: 64ca8af0f54a325752f08bd54e52151061ea659a
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: external\_commands, network
- Quality score: 79
- Quality tier: bronze
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/xixu-me-skills-cli
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/xixu-me-skills-cli/manifest

## Capabilities

- Guides skill discovery through skills.sh and skills CLI search.
- Explains install sources for GitHub, GitLab, git URLs, local packages, and specific skills.
- Shows how to list, check, update, remove, initialize, restore, and sync installed skills.
- Helps choose symlink or copy installation methods based on the environment.
- Provides recommendation formats with install count, source reputation, and repository quality checks.
- Routes portable backup and restore workflows to Skills Vault when a manifest is needed.

## Use Cases

- Find a Reliable Skill: Compare marketplace options, check source quality, and recommend an installable skill for a specific task.
- Install Skills for an Agent: Choose the right source, skill name, agent target, and scope for a Codex or Claude Code setup.
- Restore Team Skill Setups: Use lock files or Skills Vault guidance to reproduce installed skills across machines.

## Prompt Templates

### Find a Skill

```
Find a reliable skill for React performance work. Compare options and recommend one for Codex.
```

### Install One Skill

```
Help me install the best skill for changelog generation into Claude Code. Explain the source and scope first.
```

### Maintain Installed Skills

```
Check how I should list, update, and remove installed skills for my Codex environment.
```

### Plan Team Restore

```
Design a repeatable workflow for backing up and restoring our team agent skills across new developer machines.
```

## Limitations

- Does not verify live install counts unless the assistant checks current sources.
- Does not replace security review for third-party skills before installation.
- Depends on the installed skills CLI behavior and available package sources.
- Does not author new skill content; it routes that work to a skill-authoring workflow.

## Best Practices

- Check source reputation, repository quality, and install count before recommending community skills.
- Confirm target agent and install scope before adding flags that change where skills are installed.
- Use Skills Vault when the user needs repeatable backup or team restore workflows.

## Anti Patterns

- Recommending the first search result without checking source and quality.
- Using older owner slash repo at skill syntax instead of current add syntax.
- Adding confirmation-skip flags during personal installs without a clear user request.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-08T10:02:38.855\+00:00
- Summary: No confirmed security issues were found in the static results. The external command and network detections are markdown CLI examples, inline backticks, and public documentation links; the screenshot blocker is only a sample recommendation description. No prompt injection or data-exfiltration intent was found in SKILL.md.

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- Downloads: 37
- Favorites: 1
- Popularity score: 0