Agent skill

Pai Skills Root

by nirholas in nirholas/PAI

“Index of all PAI skills.”

— description from SKILL.md by nirholas
Custom licenceAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Pai Skills Root

skills CLI
$ npx skills add nirholas/PAI --skill pai-skills-root -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install nirholas/PAI pai-skills-root --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/nirholas/PAI.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills .claude/skills/pai-skills-root && 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/

Facts

Skill name
pai-skills-root
GitHub stars
113
Token cost
~333 tokens
SKILL.md length
166 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
3
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

  • Works in 4 steps: Enumerate every SKILL.md under /skills/… → Parse the YAML frontmatter of each file. → Build an in-memory registry keyed by… → …
  • SKILL.md covers Catalog and How skills are discovered by…
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

About this skill

Pai Skills Root is a skill in nirholas/PAI (113 stars). Its SKILL.md is about 333 tokens. Licence: Custom licence.

Workflow steps

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

  1. Enumerate every SKILL.md under /skills/ (excluding this root
  2. Parse the YAML frontmatter of each file.
  3. Build an in-memory registry keyed by name, with triggers used to
  4. When a user request matches one or more triggers, the agent loads

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d97055d. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    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

Pai Skills Root loads about 333 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 10 tokens; SKILL.md has 166 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~10
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~333

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 166 words (~333 tokens).

“This file is the machine-readable index of every skill shipped in PAI. Agents scan /skills/*/SKILL.md at session start and use this file as the canonical list of what is available.”

— opening of SKILL.md by nirholas, Custom licence
name
pai-skills-root
version
0.1.0

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills of nirholas/PAI.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d97055d

Compare with similar skills

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Apu Memory Tuneramd/skills406—~2.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Works with

Questions about Pai Skills Root

How do I install Pai Skills Root in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add nirholas/PAI --skill pai-skills-root -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills in nirholas/PAI) into .claude/skills/pai-skills-root in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Pai Skills Root in Codex?

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

Can I use Pai Skills Root 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 nirholas/PAI --skill pai-skills-root -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/pai-skills-root, .gemini/skills/pai-skills-root, .github/skills/pai-skills-root and .opencode/skills/pai-skills-root in your project.

What does Pai Skills Root need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Pai Skills Root is instructions for the agent only.

Does Pai Skills Root 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 Pai Skills Root 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 Pai Skills Root use?

Pai Skills Root has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Pai Skills Root use?

About 333 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.3k 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 Pai Skills Root?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Pai Skills Root: Ollama Setup (jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, 2.8k stars), Aider Delegate (amElnagdy/delegate-skills, 2.3k stars), Perfup (raullenchai/Rapid-MLX, 3.9k stars) and Debug Inference (NVIDIA/OpenShell, 16k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Pai Skills Root?

nirholas (a GitHub user) maintains it in nirholas/PAI, which has 113 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 15, 2026.

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