skillup 0.7.3

A minimal CLI to manage agent skills from GitHub releases.

Skill your agents up.
A minimal CLI to install, version, and sync skills for your AI agents.
Local-first · GitHub & Azure DevOps · Works with Claude, Gemini, and more.

uv tool install skillup

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Features

• Interactive install — pick skills from any GitHub repo release
• Multi-repo — manage skills from multiple sources independently
• Lock file — pins commit SHAs for reproducible installs (~/.agents/skills.lock.json)
• Auto-update — upgrade all or specific repos to their latest release or branch head
• Smart cache — skips redundant downloads; override with SKILLUP_CACHE_DIR
• gh integration — uses gh CLI when available, falls back to requests
• Azure DevOps — install skills from private Azure DevOps Git repos via DefaultAzureCredential or a PAT

Installation

uv tool install skillup

To use Azure DevOps sources, install the azure extra:

uv tool install 'skillup[azure]'

Usage

Add skills from GitHub

skillup add google/gemini-cli-skills

No releases? Falls back to main automatically. Pin a branch or add specific skills non-interactively:

skillup add anthropics/skills --branch main --skill pdf

Full GitHub URLs are also accepted:

skillup add https://github.com/anthropics/skills

Add skills from Azure DevOps

Pass the full Azure DevOps clone URL — the provider is detected automatically from the domain:

skillup add https://dev.azure.com/myorg/myproject/_git/myrepo
skillup add https://myorg.visualstudio.com/myproject/_git/myrepo   # legacy URL format

# pin a branch or add specific skills non-interactively
skillup add https://dev.azure.com/myorg/myproject/_git/myrepo --branch develop --skill my-skill

Azure DevOps repos are stored in the lock file under the key azdo:org/project/repo and participate in the shared update and sync commands just like GitHub repos.

Authentication

Authentication is resolved in this order:

1. AZURE_DEVOPS_TOKEN env var — a Personal Access Token (PAT) with Code → Read scope, or any valid bearer token.
2. DefaultAzureCredential (requires the azure extra) — tries, in order: environment variables (AZURE_CLIENT_ID / AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET / AZURE_TENANT_ID), workload identity, managed identity, Azure CLI (az login), Azure Developer CLI, and interactive browser login.

The recommended approach for developer machines is DefaultAzureCredential via az login:

uv tool install 'skillup[azure]'
az login
skillup add https://dev.azure.com/myorg/myproject/_git/myrepo

Remove skills

skillup remove

Update skills

skillup update                              # all repos
skillup update --repo google/gemini-cli-skills  # one repo

Sync (restore from lock file)

skillup sync

Installs skills at the exact pinned SHAs from the lock file — useful for new machines.

Migrate from NPX skills CLI

skillup migrate                       # reads skills-lock.json from repo root
skillup migrate path/to/skills-lock.json

Skill definition

A folder is recognized as a skill when it lives inside a skills/ directory at the repo root and contains a SKILL.md file.

Development

uv sync          # install deps
uv run skillup --help
uv run pytest
uv run pyright skillup

License

MIT