HoloViz Skills

A curated collection of Agent Skills for the HoloViz ecosystem — Panel, hvPlot, HoloViews, Param, and more.

Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and references that teach agents how to work effectively with a specific library or workflow. These skills help agents produce correct, idiomatic HoloViz code instead of guessing from stale training data.

Documentation

Visit https://holoviz-dev.github.io/holoviz-skills/ for the full list of skills and usage instructions. There, there are Copy Markdown icons at the top of each skill page to paste a skill directly into any AI chat if you prefer that over installing. Each category page also has a Context cost table showing how much an agent reads for each kind of task.

Installation

With uv, nothing to install first:

uvx holoviz-skills install developing     # Panel, hvPlot, HoloViews, Param; auto-detects your tools
uvx holoviz-skills install contributing   # for HoloViz maintainers
uvx holoviz-skills install developing --global --claude-code   # ~/.claude/skills, every project

pip install holoviz-skills gives you the same holoviz-skills command.

As a Claude Code plugin:

/plugin marketplace add holoviz-dev/holoviz-skills
/plugin install holoviz@holoviz-skills
/plugin install panel-live-server@holoviz-skills   # optional: lets the agent render and screenshot Panel apps

The holoviz plugin brings all three skills; to install just one, use uvx or npx. panel-live-server runs Python on your machine to render what the agent builds, which is why it's a separate plugin you opt into.

With the skills.sh CLI:

npx skills add holoviz-dev/holoviz-skills --skill developing-with-holoviz

npx skills update follows the GitHub main branch, while uvx holoviz-skills@latest update follows PyPI releases, so two machines can differ by whatever has merged since the last release.

Keeping skills current

uvx holoviz-skills@latest update   # re-install what you have, listing which skills changed
uvx holoviz-skills doctor          # stale copies, your HoloViz library versions, compatibility

AGENTS.md

Don't paste the skills into AGENTS.md: that file loads on every task, while installed skills load only when one is needed.

All tool flags

holoviz-skills install --claude-code   # .claude/skills/
holoviz-skills install --agent         # .agents/skills/          (cross-tool standard, commit to git)
holoviz-skills install --codex         # .agents/skills/           (OpenAI Codex)
holoviz-skills install --copilot       # .github/skills/           (GitHub Copilot)
holoviz-skills install --cursor        # .cursor/skills/
holoviz-skills install --windsurf      # .windsurf/skills/
holoviz-skills install --cline         # .cline/skills/
holoviz-skills install --jetbrains     # .junie/skills/            (JetBrains / Junie)
holoviz-skills install --gemini-cli    # .gemini/skills/
holoviz-skills install --antigravity   # .agents/skills/           (Google Antigravity)
holoviz-skills install --kiro          # .kiro/skills/
holoviz-skills install --kilo-code     # .kilo/skills/            (Kilo Code)
holoviz-skills install --mistral-vibe  # .vibe/skills/

Evaluation

The scripts/ directory contains an automated evaluation system that measures whether the skills improve Copilot's code generation quality. See scripts/README.md for details.

CI support for evaluations is also available through the Eval Command GitHub Actions workflow, including a maintainer @run-eval pull request comment trigger. See the GitHub Actions section in scripts/README.md.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. See the documentation for details on how skills are structured and how to add a new one.

License

BSD — see LICENSE.txt.