agenticpool

Package manager for the AI Skills Registry — the Ink TUI edition of skillpool. Installs three kinds of Claude Code resources into your project's .claude/ folder:

| Type | Installs to | What it is | |------|-------------|------------| | skill | .claude/skills/<name>/ | A folder of prompt files + skill.json — the model auto-invokes it by description. | | command | .claude/commands/<name>.md | A slash command (/<name>) the user triggers manually. | | agent | .claude/agents/<name>.md | A subagent the model delegates to, in its own context with its own tools. |

Install

npm i -g claude-agentpool
# or
npx claude-agentpool <command>

(npm package is claude-agentpool; the installed command is agenticpool.)

Commands

agenticpool list                  # interactive TUI (installs your selection)
agenticpool list --long           # plain list with version + description
agenticpool list --type agent     # filter by type: skill | command | agent
agenticpool search react          # search all types by name / description / tag

agenticpool add                   # no arg → open the TUI
agenticpool add react-architect   # install by name (when unique across types)
agenticpool add command:commit    # disambiguate with type:name
agenticpool add agent:[email protected]

agenticpool info command:commit   # details + file list
agenticpool remove command:commit # remove an installed resource
agenticpool update                # update all installed
agenticpool update skill:docx

TUI controls

agenticpool list (in a TTY) and agenticpool add with no argument open a full-screen picker: tabs across the top (Skills | Commands | Agents), each with its own paginated, multi-select list.

| Key | Action | |---|---| | Tab / Shift+Tab / ← → | switch tab (wraps) | | ↑ ↓ | move cursor (wraps within the current page) | | [ ] | previous / next page in the current tab | | Space | toggle selection of the highlighted item | | a | toggle select-all for the current tab only | | Enter | install the selection | | q / Esc | cancel |

a selects everything on the active tab, not globally — this keeps you from accidentally bulk-installing resources on a tab you haven't even looked at. Hit a on each tab you want to select-all on.

Names and collisions

A name may exist in more than one type (e.g. a code-reviewer skill and a code-reviewer agent). Use a bare name when it's unique; otherwise prefix the type: skill:code-reviewer, command:commit, agent:code-reviewer. Installs are tracked in .claude/skills/manifest.json keyed by type:name.

Interoperability with skillpool

agenticpool and skillpool read/write the exact same .claude/skills/manifest.json. You can install a resource with one and remove/update it with the other — they track the same state.

Registry source

By default the CLI reads registry.json from the public GitHub raw URL. Override for testing or private registries:

agenticpool --registry ./path/to/ai-skills-registry list   # local folder
AGENTICPOOL_REGISTRY=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/you/repo/main agenticpool list

How it works

The CLI never hardcodes the resource list. At runtime it fetches registry.json, which lists every skill, command, and agent plus the files each contains, and downloads them by raw URL. Adding a new resource to the registry repo requires no CLI release — the next agenticpool list sees it automatically.