add-remote-skill - SKILL.md Agent Skill

name: add-remote-skill description: This skill should be used when the user wants to add one or more skills from GitHub repositories to the kilo-marketplace. It handles parsing GitHub URLs, cloning skill directories, and updating SKILL.md frontmatter with source metadata.

Add Remote Skill

This skill enables adding skills from GitHub repositories to the kilo-marketplace.

When to Use

Use this skill when the user provides one or more GitHub URLs pointing to skill directories and wants them added to the marketplace.

Workflow

Single Skill

For a single GitHub URL, execute the add-remote-skill script directly:

npx tsx bin/add-remote-skill.ts <github-url>

Multiple Skills

When the user provides multiple GitHub URLs, switch to orchestrator mode to handle each skill addition as a separate subtask. This ensures proper error handling and progress tracking for each skill.

To switch to orchestrator mode:

Request a mode switch to orchestrator with a message like:

Add the following skills from GitHub:

[url1]

[url2]

[url3]

For each URL, create a code subtask that runs: npx tsx bin/add-remote-skill.ts <url>

after cloning the skill, make sure you give it an appropriate category. Please also check the url main repository for the LICENSE and warn the user if it is not Apache 2.0

Script Details

The bin/add-remote-skill.ts script:

Parses GitHub URLs in formats:
- https://github.com/owner/repo/tree/branch/path/to/skill
- https://github.com/owner/repo/blob/branch/path/to/file (extracts parent directory)
Uses sparse checkout to clone only the skill directory
Copies the skill to skills/<skill-name>/
Updates SKILL.md frontmatter:
- Adds metadata.source.repository with the GitHub repo URL
- Adds metadata.source.path with the path within the repo
- Adds metadata.category: unknown if not present

Example Usage

# Add a single skill
npx tsx bin/add-remote-skill.ts https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/claude.ai/web-design-guidelines

# Add from Gemini CLI
npx tsx bin/add-remote-skill.ts https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/tree/main/.gemini/skills/pr-creator

Error Handling

The script will fail if:

The GitHub URL format is invalid
The skill directory already exists locally
SKILL.md is not found in the source directory
The repository or path doesn't exist