zero

Zero

Zero is an agent-first programming language. zero.graph is the program; .0 files are projections of it. Edit through zero patch.

Install this skill once in an agent's skill manager. Keep it thin; Zero's own CLI serves the version-matched workflow for each installed compiler.

Use the zero already on PATH or at ~/.zero/bin/zero when one exists; environments often pin a specific compiler, and replacing it silently breaks version-matched stores and workflows. Install only when zero is missing:

command -v zero >/dev/null 2>&1 || { curl -fsSL https://zerolang.ai/install.sh | bash; }
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.zero/bin"
zero --version

Version-Matched Skills

This file is only a discovery stub. Do not treat it as the full Zero workflow or as command reference.

Before editing, checking, testing, or repairing Zero code, ask the installed compiler for the skill content that matches that exact binary:

zero skills
zero skills get zero
zero skills get zero --full
zero skills get stdlib --topic std.time   # one section instead of the whole topic

If the user has multiple Zero binaries, use the same binary that will run the project:

/path/to/zero skills
/path/to/zero skills get zero --full

Use zero skills get <name> to load only what the task needs, and fetch each topic at most once per session: the content is fixed for a given compiler binary, so refetching a loaded topic returns the same text. Topics and approximate served sizes:

• zero (~2 KB): this discovery stub
• agent (~4 KB): read-edit-verify loop, zero query usage, edit surfaces, verification
• language (~6 KB): syntax, types, effects, control flow, generics
• graph (~9 KB): zero.graph store, query/view, patch operations, import/export/merge
• diagnostics (~4 KB): reading diagnostics, zero explain, typed fix plans
• packages (~5 KB): manifests, package layout, creation and repair
• builds (~5 KB): build/run, targets, profiles, emitted artifacts
• testing (~3 KB): test blocks, filters, runtime checks
• stdlib (~39 KB): full signature reference, including ready-made validators: std.time (RFC 3339 incl. the exact leap-second rule), std.inet (IPv4/IPv6/hostname), std.regex (ECMA subset), std.unicode (strict UTF-8). Check here before hand-writing any parsing or validation logic. Fetch one module's section (~1 KB) with zero skills get stdlib --topic <prefix>, e.g. --topic std.time.