OpenMAIC Setup and Extension

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Trying OpenMAIC through the Live Demo
• Setting up OpenMAIC locally and choosing a startup mode
• Generating a multi-agent interactive classroom from a topic or PDF
• Extending OpenMAIC with custom providers, storage, themes or routes

Example prompts

• “Help me set up OpenMAIC locally and walk me through the provider keys.”
• “Generate an interactive classroom on photosynthesis from the PDF in ./lessons/plants.pdf.”
• “I want to fork OpenMAIC and add my own storage provider.”

Requirements

• An OpenMAIC access code for the Live Demo, or a local OpenMAIC installation
• Model provider keys in the server-side config

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Choose Mode
2. 2Clone Or Reuse Existing Repo
3. 3Choose Startup Mode
4. 4Configure Provider Keys
5. 5Start And Verify OpenMAIC
6. 6Generate A Classroom

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6a84dbe. 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 jsonc).

  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

OpenMAIC Setup and Extension loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs, and up to ~15k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 111 tokens; SKILL.md has 875 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~111

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

~1.7k

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

~15k

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

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:84

  to edit themselves (`openmaic.yml` and `.env.local`, or the model settings in the web app). If generation later fails d

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 THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC at commit 6a84dbe, republished under its MIT licence (© THU-MAIC). 875 words, ~1,666 tokens.

name

openmaic

description

OpenMAIC assistant for setting up, generating, and extending OpenMAIC. Use when the user wants to use OpenMAIC, generate a multi-agent interactive classroom, or build on / extend / customize OpenMAIC and its @openmaic/* SDK (secondary development, 二开) — covers Live Demo or local setup, startup modes, provider keys, classroom generation, and secondary development (forking, providers/storage/themes, routes, or the renderer/editor).

user-invocable

true

{
  "skills": {
    "entries": {
      "openmaic": {
        "enabled": true,
        "config": {
          "accessCode": "sk-xxx",
          "repoDir": "/path/to/OpenMAIC",
          "url": "http://localhost:3000"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

© THU-MAIC, 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 8 other files (references) in skills/openmaic of THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC.

• SKILL.md
• references/clone.md
• references/extend-cookbook.md
• references/extend-sdk.md
• references/extend.md
• references/generate-flow.md
• references/live-demo.md
• references/provider-keys.md
• references/startup-modes.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6a84dbe