Agent skills

Runtype publishes official agent skills that teach Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Windsurf, and 30+ other coding agents how to build on Runtype. A skill is a packaged set of instructions, references, and helper scripts the agent loads on demand — once installed, your coding agent knows Runtype’s product schema, MCP tools, flow step types, and SDK conventions without you re-explaining them in every prompt.

Skills are installed via the open-source skills CLI, which auto-detects which coding agents you have installed and drops the right files in the right place.

Install all Runtype skills

Run this once from any project (or your home directory for global install):

$
npx skills add runtypelabs/skills

The CLI detects your installed agents and installs every Runtype skill for each of them. That’s it — restart your coding agent and the skills are available.

Install with the Runtype CLI

If you already have the Runtype CLI installed (npm install -g @runtypelabs/cli), you can install skills without a separate tool — it bundles the same agent detection:

$
runtype skills install

The command auto-detects the AI coding agents on your machine, asks for confirmation, and installs every Runtype skill for each one. To see what was detected first:

$
runtype skills list

To target specific agents, pass their short ids (for example claude, cursor, codex):

$
runtype skills install --agent claude --agent cursor

Useful flags:

• --yes — skip the confirmation prompt (for scripts and CI)
• --json — structured, non-interactive output
• --verbose — show install progress

The first time you run any runtype command in an interactive terminal, the CLI also offers this install once automatically.

Install specific skills

To pick a subset interactively:

$
npx skills add runtypelabs/skills --list

To install one skill non-interactively:

$
npx skills add runtypelabs/skills --skill runtype-build-product -y

Available skills

Most users want all of them — install once, and the right skill activates based on what you’re asking.

Target a specific agent

The CLI auto-detects installed agents, but you can scope an install to one with the -a flag (repeatable):

$
npx skills add runtypelabs/skills -a claude-code -a cursor

Supported agents include claude-code, cursor, codex, copilot, windsurf, cline, gemini, opencode, and many others. See the skills.sh agent directory for the full list and per-agent install paths.

Connect the MCP server

Skills are most useful alongside the Runtype MCP server, which lets the agent read your live workspace and create resources directly. Many skill workflows assume MCP is connected — see Managing Runtype with Claude for the Claude setup, or add it manually to any MCP-aware agent:

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{
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  "mcpServers": {
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    "runtype": {
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      "type": "url",
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      "url": "https://api.runtype.com/v1/mcp/protocol"
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    }
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  }
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}

OAuth runs on first use.

Updating and removing

$
npx skills update runtypelabs/skills   # pull latest versions
$
npx skills list                        # show installed skills
$
npx skills remove runtype-build-product

Next steps

• Managing Runtype with Claude for the MCP connector setup
• Runtype skills repository for skill source and contribution guide
• skills.sh for the hosted skill catalog