skills
Bring your Entire context to your agents with cross-agent skills.
Why This Exists
The Entire CLI captures the context behind your
code changes: prompts, transcripts,
Checkpoints, and the decisions that led
to each change, alongside your git history. This repository packages
agent-invokable workflows that teach coding agents how to use that context across
development environments.
Instead of looking up Entire commands yourself, you can ask in plain language and
let your agent search prior work, inspect provenance, hand off session state, or
turn repeated workflows into new skills.
Install
Install every skill with the skills CLI:
npx skills add https://github.com/entireio/skills --all
Install one skill:
npx skills add https://github.com/entireio/skills --skill search
See Agent-Specific Installation for setup
instructions by agent.
Quick Start
[!NOTE]
These skills are most useful in codebases with real
Checkpoints and session history. The
richer the history, the more context your agent has to work with; in a new or
lightly captured repository, some workflows may have less to find or explain.
After installing, ask your agent for the workflow you want:
search past work for rate limiting
explain src/auth.ts
what happened here: src/auth.ts:42-57
hand off this session
turn my release notes workflow into a skill
review this branch before merging
For a guided walkthrough, see the
skills tutorial.
What skills help agents do
| Goal | Example prompt |
|---|
| Find prior work before making changes | search past work for the migration |
| Understand the intent behind a function, file, or line | explain parseConfig |
| Investigate the latest change to a specific block | what happened at src/auth.ts:42 |
| Review branch changes with intent context | review this branch before merging |
| Pick up another agent's work | hand off the codex session |
| Convert repeated work into a reusable workflow | make a skill from this session |
Included skills
The current repository includes these skills. Each skill lives in
skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md.
search
Finds prior work in your Entire history by topic, repo, branch, author, or time
window, so your agent can bring past context into the current task before making
changes.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/52e50eae-ba53-4f31-ad2e-2a29a767a34f
explain
Looks up the session behind a function, file, or line so your agent can explain
the requirement, decision, or original problem that shaped it.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ab2e88f6-9bce-417b-ba71-6e93ecad370b
what-happened
Starts from an exact file line, range, or pasted snippet and traces the latest
change with git blame and Checkpoint context. Useful when reviewing a concrete
block, debugging a regression, or asking why that block changed.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/47db0daa-60bd-4000-b956-2d0e4d980b9b
session-handoff
Reads saved or active session context so another agent can pick up the task
state, important discoveries, blockers, and next steps without making you
reconstruct everything manually.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0df3b5cd-fe37-4145-af48-138642ccc8bc
review
Reviews code changes on the current branch by reading checkpoint transcripts to
understand developer intent, then auditing the diff for issues. Produces
intent-aware findings with severity levels (Critical / High / Medium /
Low) compatible with entire review --fix. Includes a separate
references/review-rules.md for the audit checklist.
using-entire
Orchestrator skill for codebase exploration. Routes user intent to the right
sub-skill (search, explain, what-happened, review, session-handoff,
session-to-skill, session-crosslink) or runs a general exploration flow that
reads checkpoint history before inferring from code.
session-crosslink
Links an agent session that ran outside the repo whose commits should record it
— launched from a higher-level folder, a non-Entire repo, or one repo but
editing another — to each affected Entire-enabled repo's HEAD commit. Previews
with --dry-run then amends on confirmation, no manual cd orchestration.
Requirements
These skills are designed for repositories where Entire has captured useful
history. Some workflows need:
