Repository
YaoApp/yao agent skills
- skills
- 14
- GitHub stars
- 8.1k
GitHub description: “✨ All your agents and workspaces in one place, on every device you own. Track tasks on a board, accessible from desktop, mobile, browser, or API. Self-hosted.”
- Stars
- 8,090 (721 forks)
- Licence
- Unknown
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Sep 2021
- Homepage
- yaoagents.com
- Source
- github.com/YaoApp/yao
- ai-native
- claude-code
- deepseek-harness
- dsh-plugin
- agent-harness
- agent-orchestration
- agent-skills
- agent-workspaces
- ai-agents
- coding-agent
- dsh
- local-first
- no-code
- own-your-data
- deepseek
- jev
Install all skills
npx skills add YaoApp/yaoAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in YaoApp/yao, ranked
Ranked by score. Sort bymost stars,trending,newest,recently updated
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lets an agent read and describe images through a vision model and generate or edit images from text prompts, using the tai command-line tool. | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | 1 repo | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 2 | Lists, downloads, references and deploys agents on a Yao host through five bash-invoked tools, keeping edits to the smith namespace while allowing read-only study of any agent. | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | — | ~873 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 3 | Transcribes audio files such as mp3, m4a, wav and webm to text with the tai audio_transcribe tool, and lists the available speech-to-text providers. | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | — | ~416 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 4 | Starts, lists, checks, restarts and stops long-running background services through Yao daemon tools, reporting the verified port and URL of each. | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 5 | Starts, lists, monitors, waits on and stops long-running background commands through a dedicated set of job-management tools. | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 6 | Lists workspaces and reads or writes their files on a remote node through five tai tool commands, for cross-node file work the local filesystem cannot do. | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | — | ~939 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 7 | Manages Git identity, HTTPS access tokens and SSH keys at the workspace level through three `tai tool` commands, each with a get, set, list, import or delete action. | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | — | ~712 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 8 | Looks up kanban boards and task status through two bash-invoked tools instead of guessing, listing boards first and then filtering tasks by status, board or assistant. | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | — | ~275 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 9 | Yao process documentation expert. ALWAYS invoke this skill when the user needs to discover available processes, read process signatures, or validate… | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | — | ~428 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 10 | Yao process execution expert. ALWAYS invoke this skill when the user needs to call a Yao process, query data models, run scripts, or check process… | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | — | ~397 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 11 | Lets the agent list and read the secrets a user has configured, such as API keys and tokens, through two tai tools instead of hardcoding credentials into code or commands. | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | — | ~415 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 12 | Gives the agent two bash-callable tools, web_search for real-time results and web_fetch for reading a page as markdown or HTML, instead of guessing from training data. | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | — | ~315 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 13 | Returns typed answers from a decision model, such as a category choice, a score on a labeled scale or a probability, each with confidence, for routing and grading tasks. | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 14 | Extracts text from images and PDFs, including invoices, receipts, ID cards and tables, with plain text, JSON or Markdown output and a choice of OCR providers. | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in YaoApp/yao?
Yao Image Tools from YaoApp/yao ranks first of the 14 skills in YaoApp/yao listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 8.1k GitHub stars, 1 other GitHub owner carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 2k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Yao Agent Management Tools and Yao Audio Transcription.
Are the skills in YaoApp/yao official?
None yet. All 14 skills in YaoApp/yao listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.
How do I install all skills from YaoApp/yao?
Run npx skills add YaoApp/yao in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.