Skani
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PRESERVATION/
GETTING STARTED

Getting Started

Skani is a tool for managing agent skills across development environments. This guide acts as initial extraction protocol to get your environment ready for skill preservation.

Prerequisites

Before extracting intelligence, ensure your environment meets the minimum biological requirements. Skani requires one of the following runtimes to be fossilized in your system path:

Bunv1.0+
or
Node.jsv18.0+

01Initialize a Project

Run the following command in your project directory to create a skani.json file. This acts as amber casing for your project's skills.

~npx skani init my-project
Project initialized in ./my-project Created skani.json manifest

02Install a Skill

Install skills directly from GitHub repositories. The skill is pulled, verified, and preserved within your manifest.

~npx skani install owner/repo

You can also specify a version:

~npx skani install owner/repo@v1.2.3

03List Installed Skills

View all preserved specimens in your current environment.

~npx skani list