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For those of you adding agent skills to work with #rstats code, how do you actually add skills? Using npx skills add? Some other way?

Garrick Aden-Buie

@grrrck.xyz

18 May

I'm a fan of `npx skills add`, but I also made a small similar wrapper in btw: `btw skills install`. There's also `btw_skill_install_github()` and related functions you can call from R: posit-dev.github.io/btw/dev/refe...

Garrick Aden-Buie

@grrrck.xyz

18 May

Also, the next version of {btw} will ship (soon!) with `btw_skill_install_project()` to install all skills shipped a project's dependencies -- i.e. R packages with skills in inst/skills posit-dev.github.io/btw/dev/refe...

posit-dev.github.ioInstall skills from all project dependencies — btw_skill_install_projectDiscovers R packages that are dependencies of the current project and installs skills from any that bundle them in inst/skills/. If a DESCRIPTION file exists in the working directory, packages are rea...

David Keyes

@dgkeyes.com

18 May

This is perfect, thanks!

David Keyes

@dgkeyes.com

@grrrck.xyz question on {btw}: it looks like the skill-loading functions put the skills into .btw/skills by default. Does Claude recognize this location? I thought Claude only recognized skills in the .claude/skills directory?

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Garrick Aden-Buie

@grrrck.xyz

1 Sept

No, Claude will only find skills in `.claude/skills`. You can pass `scope = ".claude/skills"` to the skill installation functions. These days, I'm more likely to install skills into `.agents/skills` and then link them into `.claude/skills` since `.agents` is more widely used.