The npx skills CLI makes it trivial to pull in “agent skills” from any Git repo or local folder. You can install a whole repo (using owner/repo shorthand or full URL), pick individual skills by name (quoted if they contain spaces), target specific agents, or install globally across all your projects. Flags include –global for a user-wide directory, –agent to limit which agents get the skills, –skill to pick skill names (use ‘*’ for all), –list to preview available skills without installing, and –yes or –all for non-interactive installs in CI/CD. You can choose between symlinking (the default, single source of truth) or copying files if your platform won’t handle symlinks. Beyond installation, npx skills offers commands to manage your collection. npx skills list (alias ls) shows what’s installed; find lets you search interactively or via keyword; update refreshes one or more skills, in project or global scope, with a –yes flag for non-interactive mode; remove (or rm) uninstalls skills by name, agent, or scope. Finally, init spins up a SKILL.md template—either in the current directory or a named subfolder—so you can author new skills. Each skill lives in a folder with a YAML front matter header that defines its name and description. Agent skills turn common workflows—like generating Git release notes, crafting PRs that follow your team’s conventions, or hooking into tools such as Linear and Notion—into reusable instruction sets your coding assistant can run. You’ll find a long list of compatible agents (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Cursor and 41 more) with their default project and global install paths detailed in the docs. If you want to browse community-created skills, check out skills.sh.