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MasterSkills installs skills for every AI coding agent it finds on a machine. The agent registry covers 70+ agents — the full skills.sh agent set — including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cline, Amp, Zed, and Warp.

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How detection works

An agent counts as installed when its config directory exists (for example ~/.claude for Claude Code, ~/.codex for Codex). No per-agent integrations, no plugins: supporting an agent means knowing which user-level skills folder it reads. Two families:
  • Own-directory agents — Claude Code (~/.claude/skills), Windsurf (~/.codeium/windsurf/skills), and others each get their own link into the central store.
  • Universal-directory agents — Cline, Warp, Zed, Kimi, and others read the shared ~/.agents/skills convention. That directory is linked exactly once and serves them all. The universal pseudo-agent covers any future tool that adopts the convention — it activates whenever ~/.agents exists.
Install once, and every detected agent gets the same skills at the same versions; agents installed later are one masterskills link (or any subsequent install) away.

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Talking to MasterSkills through an agent

Installing skills works for all registry agents. Driving MasterSkills conversationally — “publish this”, “any updates?” — additionally requires the agent to run shell commands, since the MasterSkills skill drives the masterskills CLI. Claude Code is the reference experience; any agent that loads skills and executes commands works the same way.

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Environment overrides

masterskills agents --json shows each agent’s id, detection state, and resolved skillsDir — useful when scripting or debugging link locations.