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Installation

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One command

Both commands install into the selected agent’s global user directory by default. The interactive command asks which bundles or categories and harnesses to use. Use --project for the current repository instead. The installer has explicit targets for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, Windsurf and generic .agents/skills consumers. Other harnesses need to support the Agent Skills folder format; tool permissions and advanced metadata can differ.

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Choose what to install

Manage installs with installed, update, uninstall <skills|--all> and doctor. The CLI only ever removes skills it installed itself. The curated --bundle choices are research-essentials, ml-research, ai-research, biology-research, chemistry-research, medicine-research and physics-research. Use individual skill names or --category when the bundle is too broad or too narrow.

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Alternatives

Installer options via environment variables: RAS_VERSION, RAS_BUNDLE (bundle or category, or all), RAS_HARNESS. The standalone installers also default to global user directories. Vercel’s skills CLI has its own scope prompts and flags; review its choice before installing.

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skills.sh discovery

The collection skill indexes all 280 specialist skills. Each specialist remains separately installable. To install the entire collection into this project for Codex, run:
Use another agent name if appropriate, or add --global for a user-wide install. The public repository’s skills/<name>/SKILL.md folders are discoverable by the Vercel skills CLI. The directory page lists skills it has seen through CLI installs. The root skills.sh.json groups those entries by audience; it does not submit unseen skills. Run npx skills add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills --list to verify repository discovery. Browse the directory listing. The directory’s rankings use the CLI’s anonymous install telemetry.

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Python for skill scripts

Skills with a scripts/ folder run Python 3.9+ (many are standard-library only). For skills with dependencies, install uv. npx research-agent-skills doctor checks your setup.