gaia-cli 5.1.1

Gaia AI Agent Skill Registry CLI

Gaia - This is not a skill marketplace

This is an open, evidence-backed skill graph. The game is to name a skill to your repository--the best skill takes "origin". Success means becoming the public record AI agent developers cite when making capability claims — the pkg.go.dev for agent skills.

How does ranking work? Read META.md for a comprehensive list

Name a skill, get a badge.

Generate yours at gaia.tiongson.co/badges/.

Brand & product: PRODUCT.md · CONTEXT.md · DESIGN.md

Keywords: AI Agent Skills • Skill Registry • LLM Ops • Agent Framework

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Who maintains this?

Truth is, Gaia will exist even without anyone sending their skills.

I built this because skills should be attributed to the people who proved them. Permanently, not just until the repo goes private.

So that means, its the developers who make skills maintaining this. I have a thorough curation process, and the dev community is evidence on why this works. As long as developers making skills exists, this registry will exist. This is open-source, so feel free to contribute!

The Skill Tree

◆ mattpocock/skills  [5★]
  ├─ ◇ mattpocock/engineering  [4★]
  │  ├─ ◇ devin-ai/autonomous-swe  [3★]
  │  │  ├─ ○ garrytan/design-html  [3★]
  │  │  ├─ ○ /code-execution
  │  │  └─ ○ /error-interpretation
  │  ├─ ○ mattpocock/improve-codebase-architecture  [2★]
  │  ├─ ◇ garrytan/garrytan  [4★]
  │  │  ├─ ○ /plan-decompose
  │  │  └─ ○ ████████/ask-matt
  │  ├─ ◇ mattpocock/to-prd  [3★]
  │  │  ├─ ○ garrytan/retro  [3★]
  │  │  └─ ○ /plan-decompose  (↑ see above)
  │  ├─ ○ mattpocock/triage  [3★]
  │  ├─ ◇ mattpocock/ubiquitous-language  [3★]

◆ garrytan/gstack  [5★]
  ├─ ○ garrytan/office-hours  [3★]
  ├─ ○ garrytan/benchmark  [3★]
  ├─ ◇ garrytan/plan-eng-review  [3★]
  │  ├─ ○ garrytan/design-html  [3★]
  │  ├─ ○ /diff-content
  │  └─ ○ garrytan/benchmark  [3★]  (↑ see above)
  ├─ ○ pbakaus/impeccable  [4★]
  ├─ ◇ garrytan/garrytan  [4★]
  │  ├─ ○ /plan-decompose
  │  └─ ○ ████████/ask-matt
  ├─ ◇ garrytan/design-consultation  [3★]
  │  ├─ ◇ ████████/stagehand
  │  │  ├─ ○ /web-search
  │  │  └─ ○ /computer-use

(230 skills total — see docs/tree.md)

How skills fuse

When two or more Basic skills combine, they can form an Extra. This is what gaia scan and gaia fuse render in your terminal:

  mattpocock/grill-me  ────────────┐
                                   ├──▶  mattpocock/grill-with-docs  ◇
  mattpocock/ubiquitous-language  ─┘

Basics fuse into Extras; Extras can fuse into Ultimates. Evidence powers each ascent.

[!TIP] New here? The interactive tutorial at gaia.tiongson.co covers everything visually: skill tiers, the stars axis, The Initiate's Rite, and copy-paste commands.

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Skill Tiers & Stars

Gaia uses a tiered star system (0★–6★) to rank agent capabilities.

Symbol	Tier	Levels
○ Basic	Primitive capability	0★ → 4★
◉ Unique	Mastery without fusion	4★ → 6★
◇ Extra	Composite workflow	2★ → 4★
◆ Ultimate	Platform capstone	5★ → 6★

Skills rank up through verifiable evidence scored on two axes — Evidence Type (provenance: one of 10 canonical types per the G7 Trust Taxonomy RFC, e.g. arxiv, repo, repo-own, github-stars, github-stars-own, peer-review, social-signal, proxy-containment, benchmark-result, verifier-attestation, fusion-recipe) and Evidence Grade (S / A / B / C, derived from the row's Trust Magnitude) — and can be demoted by demerits. The legacy single-axis Class A/B/C is deprecated and read only as a fallback during migration. The skill-level Trust Magnitude is now live in code (src/gaia_cli/promotion.py / verification.py).

Detailed Policy: See META.md for the full evidence methodology, ranking floors, and prestige requirements.

Public Trust Ledger: The Trust Ledger ranks every named skill by computed Trust Magnitude — see docs/trust/ledger/ (deployed at https://gaia.tiongson.co/trust/ledger/ once the site rebuilds).

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Quickstart

1. Install the CLI

Current Gaia CLI version: 5.1.1.

curl -fsSL https://gaia.tiongson.co/install.sh | sh

npm wrapper alternative:

npm install -g @gaia-registry/cli

Requires Python 3.8+. The script prefers pipx if available, otherwise falls back to pip install --user and prints a PATH hint if needed.

pipx / Windows alternatives

pipx:

brew install pipx
pipx install gaia-cli

Windows (PowerShell — curl installer doesn't apply):

py -m pip install gaia-cli
$env:PATH += ";" + (python -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_path('scripts', 'nt_user'))")

Registry development (editable install with all extras):

git clone https://github.com/mbtiongson1/gaia-skill-tree.git
cd gaia-skill-tree
pip install -e ".[embeddings,dev,docs]"

The dev extra installs packaging/test tools such as build and pytest; without it, packaging-specific tests are skipped locally with guidance to install developer extras.

Update

gaia update

2. Initialise & scan

gaia init

gaia scan

Detects skills your agent demonstrates.

3. Push for review

gaia push

A GitHub issue opens automatically. Maintainers review and promote; your name attaches at 2★. (or 1★ if no repo is linked).

4. Optional: MCP Server

claude mcp add gaia -- npx @gaia-registry/mcp-server

Any MCP-compatible client. See packages/mcp/ for config examples.

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Interactive TUI

After step 1, launch with no arguments:

gaia

Navigate your skills:

• Fuzzy search by name, description, or intent
• View tree (^T) and run scan (^G) without leaving the TUI
• Install skills with one keystroke
• Keyboard-native: ↑↓ navigate · Enter install · q quit

Requires textual (included with pip install gaia-cli).

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CLI Reference

usage: gaia [-h] [--registry REGISTRY] [--global] [--version]
            {help,init,scan,fetch,pull,update,install,uninstall,share,tree,push,propose,version,whoami,login,logout,reset,graph,stats,appraise,promote,fuse,lookup,path,dev,skills}
            ...

Gaia Registry CLI

options:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --registry REGISTRY  Path to a local Gaia registry checkout. Defaults to auto-resolved local or
                       global registry.
  --global, -g         Use global GAIA_HOME registry, ignoring any local .gaia/ config.
  --version, -v        Print the Gaia CLI version and exit.
  --tui                Launch the TUI (Terminal User Interface).
  --canon              Show canonical registry data instead of local-first view.

Getting started:
  gaia init [--user <name>] [--scan <path>] [--yes] [-y]
  gaia scan [--quiet]
  gaia push [--dry-run] [--no-issue]
  gaia                        Open command selector
  gaia skills                 Launch skills explorer (TUI)

Daily commands:
  gaia tree [--named] [--title]
  gaia promote [<skillId>] [--all] [--name <name>]
  gaia appraise [<skillId>]
  gaia stats
  gaia pull
  gaia fuse <skillId> [--name <name>]
  gaia path <skillId> [--owned-only] [--json]
  gaia lookup <skillId>
  gaia graph [--format html|svg|json] [-o <path>] [--no-open]
  gaia propose [<skillId>] [--ultimate] [--target <name>] [--no-pr]

Skills:
  gaia skills <list|search|info|install|uninstall>
  gaia skills list [--exclude-pending]
  gaia skills search <query> [--exclude-pending]
  gaia skills info <skill_id> [--exclude-pending]
  gaia skills install <skill> [--global | --local]
  gaia skills uninstall <skill_id>

Share:
  gaia share [--user <name>] [-o <path>] [--stdout]
  gaia install <bundle.json|url>   Preview & install a shared tree (guided)

Utilities:
  gaia whoami
  gaia login                    Sign in with GitHub (device flow)
  gaia logout                   Sign out of GitHub (clears the local token)
  gaia version
  gaia update
  gaia mcp
  gaia release <patch|minor|major>
  gaia docs build [--check]

Maintainer commands:  gaia dev --help

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MCP Server

@gaia-registry/mcp-server connects Gaia to MCP-compatible agents (Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, etc.).

Agent	Install
Claude Code	claude mcp add gaia -- npx @gaia-registry/mcp-server
Any MCP client	Command: npx, args: @gaia-registry/mcp-server

Set GAIA_USER=your-github-username and optionally GITHUB_TOKEN for PR tools. See packages/mcp/ for full docs and agent-specific config examples.

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Repository Structure

registry/                 curated registry data and public generated catalogs
registry-for-review/      pending skill batch intake records
skill-trees/              per-user skill-tree.json files
generated-output/         ignored local scan and render output
docs/                     docs site
src/gaia_cli/             Python CLI package
packages/cli-npm/         npm wrapper package
packages/mcp/             MCP server package
scripts/                  validation, rendering, docs, and release helpers
tests/                    Python test suite

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Contributing

Gaia is a shared map of agent capabilities.

Common ways to help:

• Review draft skills for clarity, overlap, and evidence quality.
• Turn accepted reviews into concrete PRs (new skill, fusion, or reclassification).

Contribution steps: CONTRIBUTING.md. Full policy/reviewer guidance: https://github.com/mbtiongson1/gaia-skill-tree/wiki (repo: https://github.com/mbtiongson1/gaia-skill-tree.wiki.git).

Contributors

Thank you to everyone who has expanded the Gaia registry.

Core Team

Contributor	Role
@mbtiongson1	Creator and maintainer: graph design, CLI, MCP server, curation pipeline
@rico-tiongson	Collaborator: early feature contributions and ongoing pair programming
@Juno	Key contributor: graph browser expansion, function-calling skill, RAG pipeline evidence, and CLI DX improvements

Named Skills

Developers	Skills
@ruvnet	48 — agentdb, flow-nexus, hive-mind-coordination, browser, and 44 others
@garrytan	47 — gstack ecosystem: browse, qa, ship, review, benchmark, learn, and 41 others
@google-deepmind	37 — alphafold, alphagenome, ensembl, clinvar, foldseek, and 32 others
@mattpocock	34 — to-prd, triage, diagnose, tdd, zoom-out, grill-me, and 28 others
@obra	12 — superpowers ecosystem: systematic-debugging, dispatching-parallel-agents, and 10 others
@intelligentcode-ai	8 — database-engineer, devops-engineer, security-engineer, and 5 others
@[anonymous]	7 — hf-cli, llm-trainer, datasets, transformers-js, and 3 others

Community contributors (1–2 skills each): @karpathy, @anthropic, @openai, @addy-osmani, @[anonymous], @glincker, @spring-ai-alibaba, @pexp13

Evidence & Curation

Contributor	Contribution
@balukosuri	Evidence: community reproduction of Karpathy's autoresearch as a universal skill
@kriptoburak	Evidence evaluator: x-twitter-automation evidence review

Bots

Bot	Contribution
@jules	Named skills via Google Jules AI: langgenius suite (backend-code-review, frontend-code-review, e2e-cucumber-playwright, and 2 others)
@gaiabot	Internal Gaia bot: repo triage and docs-sync automation
@gemini-cli	Curation: generative-media, mathematical-animation, and other generic skills from Hermes ecosystem

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Programmatic Management

The Gaia registry is programmatically managed. All meta shifts (adding, merging, splitting, adding evidence) must be performed via the Gaia CLI. Hand-editing JSON nodes is deprecated to ensure schema integrity and automated timeline logging.

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Privacy

Gaia does not store personal information.

• Skills are summarised, not stored. gaia scan records capability type, level, and evidence class — never file contents, prompt text, or conversation history.
• Only public repo links. The registry stores your public GitHub username and a public repo URL when you explicitly submit a named skill. Nothing else.
• Generalised by default. Skill descriptions capture capability categories, not personal details about you or your agent's behaviour.
• No telemetry. The CLI and the static website collect zero analytics or usage data.

Full details: PRIVACY.md · gaia.tiongson.co/privacy.html

Topics: gaia-skill-tree, ai-agents, skill-registry, llm-ops, agent-framework

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License

Apache 2.0: see LICENSE.

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