skillless: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

skillless CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from 5kahoisaac/skillless. It costs 598 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for installing and managing AI-agent skills from categorised CSV lists. It can install or remove categories, list them, show help, and update itself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use commands such as pack, unpack, list, help, and upgrade to manage skill collections, with a dry-run option to preview actions.
Why use it?
It avoids manually installing skills one by one and can target either global agent settings or the current project.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

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CLAUDE.md · 84 lines

How it starts

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skillless

A CLI tool for installing and managing AI agent skills from categorized CSV lists via npx skills.

What it does

  • skillless pack <category|all> — install all skills in a category
  • skillless unpack <category|all> — remove all skills in a category
  • skillless list — show available categories and skill counts
  • skillless upgrade — self-update to latest version
  • skillless help — show usage

Key commands

# Run the main tool
./skillless help

# Install skills from a category
./skillless pack python

# Install skills from a category locally (project-level)
skillless -s local pack python

# Dry-run (print commands without running)
skillless -n pack python

# List all categories
./skillless list

# Self-update
./skillless upgrade

Install for regular use

# 1. Clone this repo
git clone <repo-url>
cd skillless

# 2. Add a shell alias so `skillless` is available anywhere
chmod +x skillless
echo 'alias skillless="'"'$(pwd)'"'/skillless"' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

# 3. Run globally by default
skillless pack python

Use -s local only when you want skills installed into the current project instead of your global agent config.

Project structure

  • skillless — main bash CLI entrypoint
  • lists/ — category CSV files (20 categories)
  • scripts/install-skills.sh — worker that processes CSV rows via npx skills add
  • skills-lock.json — lockfile tracking installed skill sources and hashes
  • README.md — project documentation
  • skillless.png — project logo

CSV format

Each .csv in lists/ has columns:

Column Description
repo GitHub repo (owner/repo)
skill_name Skill to install (empty = all from repo)
agents Target agents (opencode claude-code codex, or empty = auto-detect)

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

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skillless CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository 5kahoisaac/skillless (4 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 598 tokens to every session, about $0.0024 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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