Skills

Skills are markdown knowledge packs (SKILL.md files) that compatible agent harnesses load on demand. They encode the Korve mental model, golden paths, and troubleshooting recipes so your agent does not have to rediscover them every session.

Install

curl -fsSL https://korve.dev/skills.sh | sh

Claude is the backward-compatible default. Choose the target harness and scope explicitly when installing for the open Agent Skills directory or Codex:

curl -fsSL https://korve.dev/skills.sh | sh -s -- --agent agents --global
curl -fsSL https://korve.dev/skills.sh | sh -s -- --agent codex --global
curl -fsSL https://korve.dev/skills.sh | sh -s -- --agent claude --global

The supported values are --agent agents, --agent codex, and --agent claude. Replace --global with --project to install into the current repository.

What’s in the box

Skill	What it teaches
`korve-platform`	Organizations, projects, runtime classes, optional primitives, billing, and equivalent control surfaces.
`korve-quickstart-deploy`	The concise create, connect, deploy, verify, and troubleshoot path.
`korve-ship-app`	The agent execution loop from repository inspection through a production smoke test.
`korve-mcp-setup`	Connecting MCP clients and using the `search` and `execute` Code Mode tools safely.
`korve-cli-setup`	CLI installation, authentication, configuration precedence, commands, and exit codes.
`korve-iac`	TOML, JSON, and YAML manifests with plan, apply, export, drift, and immutability semantics.

Skills are versioned with the platform; re-run the installer to update. The public machine-readable release catalog and file checksums are in the skills manifest. The native CLI also embeds three focused offline skills (korve, korve-cli, and korve-debug) for repository setup. They are distinct from the six broader downloadable skills above. See Local agent setup for the idempotent MCP, AGENTS.md, skills, and environment-file workflow.

Do I need skills if I have MCP?

No — they’re complementary. MCP gives an agent live, typed access to the API; skills give it the judgment layer: which runtime class to pick, what to check before creating resources, how to read a failed deploy. Use both for best results.

Start

Core concepts

Agents

Build

Data and work

Operate

CLI reference

API reference

Install

What’s in the box

Do I need skills if I have MCP?

​Install

​What’s in the box

​Do I need skills if I have MCP?

Install

What’s in the box

Do I need skills if I have MCP?