Agent skill

Bolt Build

A skill your agent uses when working on the Bolt repository and you need to configure or compile code correctly and efficiently.

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Install Bolt Build

skills CLI

$ npx skills add bytedance/bolt --skill bolt-build -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install bytedance/bolt bolt-build --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bytedance/bolt.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/bolt-build .claude/skills/bolt-build && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "bolt-build" agent skill from https://github.com/bytedance/bolt/tree/main/.agents/skills/bolt-build into .claude/skills/bolt-build/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bolt-build", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/bytedance/bolt/tree/main/.agents/skills/bolt-build

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add bytedance/bolt --skill bolt-build -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install bytedance/bolt bolt-build --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bytedance/bolt.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/bolt-build .agents/skills/bolt-build && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "bolt-build" agent skill from https://github.com/bytedance/bolt/tree/main/.agents/skills/bolt-build into .agents/skills/bolt-build/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bolt-build", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add bytedance/bolt --skill bolt-build -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install bytedance/bolt bolt-build --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bytedance/bolt.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/bolt-build .cursor/skills/bolt-build && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "bolt-build" agent skill from https://github.com/bytedance/bolt/tree/main/.agents/skills/bolt-build into .cursor/skills/bolt-build/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bolt-build", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/bytedance/bolt.git --path .agents/skills/bolt-build

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add bytedance/bolt --skill bolt-build -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install bytedance/bolt bolt-build --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bytedance/bolt.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/bolt-build .gemini/skills/bolt-build && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "bolt-build" agent skill from https://github.com/bytedance/bolt/tree/main/.agents/skills/bolt-build into .gemini/skills/bolt-build/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bolt-build", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install bytedance/bolt bolt-build

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add bytedance/bolt --skill bolt-build -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bytedance/bolt.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/bolt-build .github/skills/bolt-build && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "bolt-build" agent skill from https://github.com/bytedance/bolt/tree/main/.agents/skills/bolt-build into .github/skills/bolt-build/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bolt-build", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add bytedance/bolt --skill bolt-build -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install bytedance/bolt bolt-build --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bytedance/bolt.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/bolt-build .opencode/skills/bolt-build && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "bolt-build" agent skill from https://github.com/bytedance/bolt/tree/main/.agents/skills/bolt-build into .opencode/skills/bolt-build/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bolt-build", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: bolt-build
GitHub stars: 179
Token cost: ~909 tokens
SKILL.md length: 428 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 1
Repo updated: Oct 9, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: Apache-2.0

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when working on the Bolt repository and you need to configure or compile code correctly and efficiently.

Works in 3 steps: Locate the edited *.cpp file's directory. → Find CMakeLists.txt in that directory… → Find the target with the edited *.cpp…
Working on the Bolt repository and you need to configure
SKILL.md covers Workflow, Core rule, Configure and When to reconfigure, plus 5 more sections
Calls cmake and make

What it does

Bolt Build is an agent skill from bytedance/bolt. Use when working on the Bolt repository and you need to configure or compile code correctly and efficiently. This skill defines the canonical Bolt build workflow, including when and how to run make, cmake --build ..., and when build reconfiguration is necessary due to added files and test or build target changes.

Its SKILL.md is about 910 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It works with C++. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

Working on the Bolt repository and you need to configure
Compile code correctly and efficiently

Example prompts

“/bolt-build”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

Locate the edited *.cpp file's directory.
Find CMakeLists.txt in that directory (or the nearest parent directory).
Find the target with the edited *.cpp file in its source list.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bad5205. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
- cmake
- make
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Bolt Build loads about 909 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 82 tokens; SKILL.md has 428 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~82
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~909

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from bytedance/bolt at commit bad5205, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© bytedance). 428 words, ~909 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/bolt-build/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: bolt-build
description: Use when working on the Bolt repository and you need to configure or compile code correctly and efficiently. This skill defines the canonical Bolt build workflow, including when and how to run `make`, `cmake --build ...`, and when build reconfiguration is necessary due to added files and test or build target changes.

Bolt Build

Use this skill for any Bolt task that requires configuring or compiling the repository for binaries tests, or benchmarks

Workflow

Configure the repository using instructions from the "Configure" section ONLY if necessary
Compile the project using instructions from "Compile" section
- Wait for all units to finish. If compilation exits early, check the error
- If killed (e.g. due to OOM), restart the build, but lower the number of jobs by adding the --parallel flag and specify a lower number than the machine's available cores. If the build is repeatedly killed to due OOMs, decrease it after each failure.

Core rule

Use cmake --build --preset conan-${BUILD_TYPE} --target ${TARGET} for all routine compilations

Configure

Configuration sets up the _build directory with the correct files to allow cmake and ninja to compile all files in the project.

When to reconfigure

Run make <TARGET> BOLT_CONAN_CONFIGURE_ONLY=1 again only if:

The required build type is different from the current one
The desired target does not exist in the current configuration
You need to include or exclude tests and the current configuration does not match Configure only if any of these conditions are met
debug info is not available in the existing binary and the goal is to debug with GDB, or the user requests debug build.

Otherwise, just use the existing configured build.

Configuration Command

To configure a build, run:

bash

make <TARGET> BOLT_CONAN_CONFIGURE_ONLY=1

This chooses the active configuration, including:

Build type: debug, release, or relwithdebinfo
Whether tests are included for that target/configuration
Available targets are listed in the Makefile in the root of the project.
- If building tests, usually need *_with_test
- If building benchmarks, usually need benchmarks-*

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Compile

If the build is already configured for the needed target and build type, compile with:

bash

cmake --build --preset conan-${BUILD_TYPE} --target ${TARGET}

Valid preset suffixes:

debug
release
relwithdebinfo

Detecting the current build type

Check _build/.build_type to determine the currently configured build type:

bash

cat _build/.build_type

This returns one of: debug, release, or relwithdebinfo.

Use this to decide whether you can reuse the existing preset or need to reconfigure for a different build type.

Working rules

Prefer the narrowest target that validates the change.
Reuse the current configured preset whenever possible.

Finding the narrowest target

To identify the smallest target that contains an edited compilation unit:

Locate the edited *.cpp file's directory.
Find CMakeLists.txt in that directory (or the nearest parent directory).
Find the target with the edited *.cpp file in its source list.

Example:

Edited file: bolt/core/execution/ExecutionPlan.cpp
Check: bolt/core/execution/CMakeLists.txt (or bolt/core/CMakeLists.txt)
Look for: add_library(bolt_core ... ExecutionPlan.cpp ...) or add_executable(bolt_core_tests ...)
Build: cmake --build --preset conan-release --target bolt_core

This ensures you compile only what's necessary to validate your change.

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/bolt-build of bytedance/bolt.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bad5205

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Questions about Bolt Build

What does Bolt Build do?

A skill your agent uses when working on the Bolt repository and you need to configure or compile code correctly and efficiently. Bolt Build is an agent skill from bytedance/bolt. Use when working on the Bolt repository and you need to configure or compile code correctly and efficiently.

When should I use Bolt Build?

Bolt Build fits situations like: working on the Bolt repository and you need to configure; compile code correctly and efficiently.

How do I install Bolt Build in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add bytedance/bolt --skill bolt-build -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/bolt-build in bytedance/bolt) into .claude/skills/bolt-build in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Bolt Build in Codex?

Run `npx skills add bytedance/bolt --skill bolt-build -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/bolt-build in bytedance/bolt) into .agents/skills/bolt-build in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Bolt Build in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add bytedance/bolt --skill bolt-build -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/bolt-build, .gemini/skills/bolt-build, .github/skills/bolt-build and .opencode/skills/bolt-build in your project.

What does Bolt Build need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Bolt Build needs the command-line tools its instructions call (cmake and make).

Does Bolt Build access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Bolt Build safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Bolt Build use?

Bolt Build is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Bolt Build use?

About 909 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Bolt Build?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Bolt Build: Paddle Build (PaddlePaddle/Paddle, 24k stars), Fory Release (apache/fory, 4.6k stars), ONNX Runtime Shape Inference Safety Audit (microsoft/onnxruntime, 22k stars) and Code Audit (3stoneBrother/code-audit, 892 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Bolt Build?

bytedance (a GitHub organization) maintains it in bytedance/bolt, which has 179 GitHub stars. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: bytedance/bolt on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Bolt Build

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Bolt Build

Workflow

Core rule

Configure

When to reconfigure

Configuration Command

Compile

Detecting the current build type

Working rules

Finding the narrowest target

Files

Compare with similar skills

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