cowork-skills

CoWork Skills

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CLI tool for managing Claude Code skills across 20+ AI coding agents

Agent Support Status

Agent	Status	Notes
Claude Code	Fully Tested	All features verified
Cursor	Community	Contributions welcome
Codex	Community	Contributions welcome
GitHub Copilot	Community	Contributions welcome
Windsurf	Community	Contributions welcome
Goose	Community	Contributions welcome
Amp	Community	Contributions welcome
Roo	Community	Contributions welcome
Kiro CLI	Community	Contributions welcome
Gemini CLI	Community	Contributions welcome
OpenCode	Community	Contributions welcome
Antigravity	Community	Contributions welcome
Clawdbot	Community	Contributions welcome
Droid	Community	Contributions welcome
Kilo	Community	Contributions welcome
Trae	Community	Contributions welcome
Zed	Community	Primary: ~/.config/zed/skills/; fallback: ~/.zed/skills/
Kimi Code	Community	~/.kimi-code/skills/
Kimi Desktop	Community	~/Library/Application Support/kimi-desktop/…/skills/ (macOS)
MiniMax Code	Community	~/.minimax/skills/ (shared with MiniMax Desktop)

Note on MiniMax: cowork manages the MiniMax Code IDE and MiniMax Agent Desktop (both share ~/.minimax/skills/). The mmx binary is a media-generation CLI (text/image/video/audio) with no plugin or skill system and is not managed by cowork.

Note: CoWork Skills has been fully tested with Claude Code. Support for other agents is based on documented skill directory conventions. We need community help to test and contribute support for these agents! If you use any of these tools, please help us verify compatibility and submit PRs.

What is CoWork Skills?

CoWork Skills provides a CLI tool (cowork / co) for managing skills across multiple coding agents:

• Install skills from GitHub repositories to 20+ AI agents
• Generate skills from source code (Rust, TypeScript, Python)
• Project-level configuration with Skills.toml
• Security auditing and checksum verification
• Search GitHub for skill repositories
• Manage Claude Code marketplace plugins

Quick Start

Installation

One-line install (recommended):

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZhangHanDong/cowork-skills/main/install.sh | bash

Or install manually:

# Option 1: From crates.io
cargo install cowork

# Option 2: From source
git clone https://github.com/ZhangHanDong/cowork-skills
cd cowork-skills/cli
cargo install --path .

# Initialize built-in skills
cowork init

Install Skills

# Install from GitHub
cowork install user/repo

# Install specific skills
cowork install user/repo -s skill1 -s skill2

# Install to specific agents
cowork install user/repo -a claude-code -a cursor

# Install as plugin (preserves full repo structure)
cowork install user/repo --plugin

# Install to project local (.claude/skills/)
cowork install user/repo --local

# Update to latest version
cowork install user/repo --update

# List installed repositories
cowork install --list

CLI Commands

Command	Description
cowork init	Install built-in skills to ~/.claude/skills/
cowork install	Install skills from GitHub or local path
cowork generate	Generate skills from a GitHub repository
cowork search	Search GitHub for skill repositories
cowork plugins	Manage Claude Code marketplace plugins
cowork config	Manage project-level skill configuration
cowork list	List all available skills
cowork status	Show current configuration
cowork doctor	Check for configuration issues
cowork test	Generate and run trigger tests for skills
cowork audit	Security audit of installed skills
cowork verify	Verify checksums of installed skills

Use co as a short alias for cowork.

Generate Skills from Source Code

Generate skills from any GitHub repository by parsing source code:

# Generate Rust skills
cowork generate tokio-rs/tokio --lang rust

# Generate TypeScript skills
cowork generate vercel/next.js --lang typescript

# Generate only llms.txt
cowork generate user/repo --llms-only -o ./output

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