CLI

Browse and fetch catalogue skills from your terminal. Reads the same registry as the page and the MCP server.

Install

npx @compound-design/skills

One JavaScript file, zero dependencies. It installs no framework to print a markdown file.

Commands

Start here

The catalogue's routing skill, generated from our own registry: it helps the agent pick the smallest useful skill.

npx @compound-design/skills start

List topics

Each topic in the catalogue, with its count.

npx @compound-design/skills topics

List skills

In pages of 40. The arrow marks the ones held at source. Use --limit, --offset or --all.

npx @compound-design/skills list --limit 40

Filter by topic

Only the ones in a topic, such as motion.

npx @compound-design/skills list --topic motion

Search by text

Terms in any order, across name, description and author.

npx @compound-design/skills list --query shadow

Read a skill

The full markdown. Use author/slug when the name repeats.

npx @compound-design/skills get emilkowalski/animate

See the licences

The licence breakdown of the catalogue.

npx @compound-design/skills licenses

See the version

The version of this CLI.

npx @compound-design/skills --version

Attribution

get returns the markdown with the author and licence attached. For the 207 hosted ones the content comes from here; for the other 62 the command returns the card and the source address, because without a declared licence only the author may redistribute.