# getstream skills

Download and install Stream agent skills for your AI coding tool.

```bash
getstream skills [skill...]
```

With no skill names, installs the default skills: `stream`, `stream-builder`, and `stream-docs`. Name additional skills from the [GetStream/agent-skills](https://github.com/GetStream/agent-skills) repository to install them alongside the defaults. In an interactive terminal a picker asks where the skills go, preselected to what the project already uses; in a non-interactive run at least one of `--claude` and `--universal` is required.

Skill content lives in `~/.stream/skills/` and is symlinked into the location you chose, so projects share one copy. Every install re-syncs the whole skill repository into that cache: all previously installed skills refresh to the latest published version, and a skill removed upstream disappears from the cache.

## Flags

| Flag          | Effect                                                                                                  |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--claude`    | Install for Claude Code (`.claude/skills`).                                                             |
| `--universal` | Install for the universal location (`.agents/skills`): Cursor, Codex, and other AGENTS-ecosystem tools. |

## Examples

```bash
getstream skills --claude
getstream skills --universal
getstream skills stream-react-native --claude
```

## Availability

Newly installed skills appear as slash commands only after the agent restarts. Each agent harness scans its skills directory at startup, so a running session does not see them.

## See also

- [Install agent skills](https://getstream.io/cli/docs/install-skills/): the install walkthrough
- [Agent Skills documentation](https://getstream.io/agent-skills/docs/): what each skill does
- [Using the CLI with an agent](https://getstream.io/cli/docs/concepts/agents/): guardrails and the division of labor
- [Install](https://getstream.io/cli/docs/installation/): installing the CLI itself

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For the most recent version of this documentation, visit [https://getstream.io/cli/docs/commands/skills/](https://getstream.io/cli/docs/commands/skills/).