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Direct answers for developers installing agent skills for the first time. Updated for the SkillForge public registry.
An agent skill is a SKILL.md package (plus optional helpers) that teaches coding agents such as Claude Code or Cursor how to perform a concrete task—for example PDF extraction, git workflows, or API calls. SkillForge indexes these packages from public GitHub.
Open any skill page, copy the install command, and run it in your project terminal. The standard form is: npx skillforge add owner/repo/skill. Then reload or restart your agent so it can load the skill.
Yes. Content is scanned for high-risk patterns (destructive commands, credential paths, reverse shells, supply-chain install tricks). Block-severity findings are not auto-published. Review-flagged skills may still publish when stars or trusted publishers meet the policy threshold. Always review upstream source before production use.
Daily, weekly, hot, and overall boards use real install events from the SkillForge CLI when volume is meaningful. Otherwise SkillForge shows time-aware estimates derived from repository stars and labels them estimated. Live vs estimated is always marked in the UI.
A crawler searches public GitHub for SKILL.md files, parses metadata, runs the safety scan, and either publishes or queues the skill. The index is updated on a recurring schedule.
Browsing the catalog and installing skills with the CLI is free. Skills themselves remain under the licenses of their upstream GitHub repositories.