Skills Installer

What it does

When your agent uses it

• You need to inspect the skills enabled in the current conversation
• Import a local skill directory
• Search/install from ClawHub
• Install from a GitHub repo/tree URL

Example prompts

• “/skills-installer”

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Determine the source type: ClawHub slug/search result, local skill directory, .zip or .skill archive, HTTP(S) download, or GitHub URL.
2. 2Determine the target destination. Runtime installs always go through SkillsManager into LiveAgent's fixed user Skills root.
3. 3For local workspace sources, pass workspace-relative paths such as ./my-skill or ./dist/my-skill.skill; LiveAgent resolves them against…
4. 4Read references/install-sources.md and references/safety-and-conflicts.md through file tools before replacing anything. Use…
5. 5Use SkillsManager with action=list to inspect the skills enabled in the current conversation when conflict or inventory context matters.
6. 6Use SkillsManager with action=clawhub_search to find ClawHub skills when the user asks to search the public store, then use…
7. 7Use SkillsManager with action=install to import a direct local, archive, HTTP(S), or GitHub source. Prefer conflict=backup unless the user…
8. 8After installation, the new skill is enabled for the current conversation automatically; ask LiveAgent to rescan skills or reopen the…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 85029b5. 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 (its code samples are bash).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • github.com

  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

Skills Installer loads about 808 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 77 tokens; SKILL.md has 308 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~77

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~808

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~1.9k

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

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 Stack-Cairn/LiveAgent at commit 85029b5, republished under its MIT licence (© Stack-Cairn). 308 words, ~808 tokens.

name

skills-installer

description

Install, list enabled, validate, or package LiveAgent skills. Use when you need to inspect the skills enabled in the current conversation, import a local skill directory or package, search/install from ClawHub, install from a GitHub repo/tree URL, or reconcile conflicts during an upgrade.

SkillsManager(action=list)
SkillsManager(action=clawhub_search, query=memory, limit=10)
SkillsManager(action=clawhub_search, sort=downloads, limit=10)
SkillsManager(action=clawhub_install, slug=example-skill, conflict=backup)
SkillsManager(action=install, source=./my-skill)
SkillsManager(action=install, source=./dist/my-skill.skill)
SkillsManager(action=install, source=https://github.com/owner/repo/tree/main/skills/my-skill)
SkillsManager(action=validate, name=my-skill)
SkillsManager(action=package, name=my-skill)

© Stack-Cairn, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in crates/agent-gui/src-tauri/prompt/skills/skills-installer of Stack-Cairn/LiveAgent.

• SKILL.md
• references/install-sources.md
• references/safety-and-conflicts.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 85029b5