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Your first skill

This guide finds a skill in the registry, installs it into a project, and checks that your agent can see it.

1. Search for a skill

skillpm search pdf

Each result shows the skill as owner/name with its trust tier, then its description, score, install count and spec version, and the command to install it — for example:

anthropics/pdf [verified]
  ...
  skillpm install anthropics/pdf

Many skills share a name, so the registry addresses each one as owner/name. Narrow a search with --tier verified, or change the order with --sort score. See skillpm search.

2. Install it

Run this from inside your project:

skillpm install anthropics/pdf
✔ Installed "pdf" at project scope
✓ Score: 100/100 · Trust: verified
Linked into /path/to/project/.agents/skills/pdf
Linked into /path/to/project/.claude/skills/pdf

Skills install at project scope by default. The skill is stored under .skilldex/ in your project and linked into .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/, the directories Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other agents read.

If you install by a bare name that several owners have published, skillpm asks which one you meant.

3. Check the install

skillpm list
global scope
  (no skills installed)

shared scope
  (no skills installed)

project scope
  pdf                            score: 100/100  source: community

1 skill(s) installed across 3 scope(s)

4. Use it

Start your agent in the project. It finds the skill in its skills directory and uses it when a task matches the skill's description — here, whenever you ask it to work with a PDF.

Install to another scope

# Available in every project on this machine
skillpm install anthropics/pdf --scope global

See Scopes for how project, shared, and global differ.

Uninstall

skillpm uninstall pdf

Next steps