kenmark-skills

Quick install

npx kenmark-skills init

No global install required — npx downloads and runs the CLI (or uses your npm cache).

The init wizard walks you through Kenmark skills, optional curated packs, IDE targets, and MCP server selection — all interactively. To refresh an existing install, use update (do not run init again for upgrades).

43 first-party skills, a 12-command CLI, and a curated catalog of optional third-party packs. Agent skills and CLI for Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, Antigravity CLI/IDE, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and other harnesses that read SKILL.md files.

Published by Kenmark ITan Solutions. Created by Tanooj Mehra and Adwait Date.

Table of contents

• At a glance
• Quick start
• Requirements
• Suggested workflow
• Documentation (brain/)
• Agents and automation
• Contributing
• License

At a glance

| Asset | Count | Detail | | --- | ---: | --- | | Kenmark skills | 43 | Bundled in skills/user-skills/ | | CLI commands | 12 | brain/kb/05-api-and-integrations.md | | Recommended packs | 6 | Impeccable, code review, Graphify, SEO, ECC — brain/kb/features/004-recommended-packs.md | | MCP servers | 5 | Opt-in; 8 JSON IDE targets — brain/kb/features/003-mcp-integration.md |

Skills install once under ~/.kenmark/store and link into each IDE's skills directory. See brain/kb/features/005-kenmark-hub-store.md.

Quick start

# Guided install (humans)
npx kenmark-skills init

# Refresh later — do not re-run init
npx kenmark-skills update

Optional: npm install -g kenmark-skills for the shorter kenmark-skills command.

In a project repo (agent chat): "Run kenmark-init on this repo" to bootstrap that repo's brain/ (standards, numbered KB, optional IDE stubs).

For scripts, CI, and agents, see Agents and automation.

Requirements

• Node.js 18+
• An agent environment that discovers skills from disk (Cursor, Codex CLI, Claude Code, Antigravity CLI/IDE, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, etc.)

Windows note

Run npx kenmark-skills init from PowerShell or CMD if you use native Windows Cursor/Claude. WSL installs into /home/..., which native Windows IDEs usually will not read. Kenmark copies skills on Windows by default (not symlinks). Confirm with npx kenmark-skills doctor.

Suggested workflow

Setup (once): npx kenmark-skills init → kenmark-init in your project repo.

Day-to-day: start with kenmark-troubleshoot when the problem is unclear; kenmark-plan before large work (tiered plans saved to brain/plans/); kenmark-plans-execute to implement an approved plan; kenmark-subagents for parallel specialist tracks; kenmark-output for complete deliverables; kenmark-router when the domain is clear but the skill is not; kenmark-commit when shipping changes. Issue and plan trackers live under brain/issues/ and brain/plans/ (bootstrapped by kenmark-init).

Full skill catalog, activation tiers, and routing tables: brain/kb/features/002-skills-catalog.md and brain/kb/08-flows-and-workflows.md.

Documentation (brain/)

Long-form reference lives in brain/ (this repo's dev knowledge base — not shipped on npm).

| Topic | Where | | --- | --- | | Brain index | brain/INDEX.md | | Project overview | brain/kb/00-project-overview.md | | Architecture & CLI routing | brain/kb/01-architecture.md | | CLI commands, flags, MCP, IDE paths | brain/kb/05-api-and-integrations.md | | init / update / adopt / cleanup / uninstall | brain/kb/08-flows-and-workflows.md | | Skills catalog & tiers | brain/kb/features/002-skills-catalog.md | | Recommended packs | brain/kb/features/004-recommended-packs.md | | Kenmark hub store | brain/kb/features/005-kenmark-hub-store.md | | Testing & validate | brain/kb/10-testing-and-quality.md | | Agent standards | brain/rules/standards.md |

Agents and automation (non-interactive)

Pass explicit flags and -y to skip TTY prompts. Set KENMARK_SKILLS_NONINTERACTIVE=1 to force non-interactive behavior without -y.

Full flag tables and MCP profiles: brain/kb/05-api-and-integrations.md.

First install

npx kenmark-skills init --skip-recommended -y
npx kenmark-skills init --ide cursor --skip-recommended -y
npx kenmark-skills init --ids impeccable,simplify -y

MCP (non-interactive)

Plain install does not touch MCP configs. Opt in with:

npx kenmark-skills init --skip-recommended --mcp-servers playwright,context7 -y
npx kenmark-skills init --skip-recommended --mcp-profile web -y
npx kenmark-skills init --with-mcp --skip-recommended -y   # all servers

Update, packs, adopt, cleanup, uninstall

npx kenmark-skills update --both -y
npx kenmark-skills install-recommended --ids impeccable,simplify -y
npx kenmark-skills adopt -y
npx kenmark-skills doctor --json ./doctor.json --no-fail
npx kenmark-skills cleanup --recommended -y
npx kenmark-skills uninstall -y
npx kenmark-skills mcp uninstall --ide cursor -y

Legacy setup remains for --copy, --force, --skip-adopt not exposed on init:

npx kenmark-skills setup --ide cursor --copy --skip-adopt -y

Migration: setup -y → init --skip-recommended -y. Legacy setup runs Install 43 Kenmark skills via setup-skills.js.

| | init | setup | | --- | --- | --- | | Installs | Kenmark + optional packs | 43 Kenmark skills | | Later refreshes | Use update | Use update |

Testing skills (links)

kenmark-test-plan · kenmark-test-unit · kenmark-test-integration · kenmark-test-e2e · kenmark-test-mocks · kenmark-test-coverage · kenmark-test-ci

Repository layout

kenmark-skills/
├── README.md
├── brain/                  # dev KB (git only; see brain/INDEX.md)
├── scripts/cli.js          # kenmark-skills binary
└── skills/user-skills/     # 43 universal skills + recommended-catalog.json

Contributing

1. Edit skills under skills/user-skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md.
2. Use the shared frontmatter schema (name, version, category, scope, phase, description, triggers, allowed-tools, risk, disable-model-invocation). See skills/README.md.
3. Run npm run validate (or npm test).
4. Add a dated entry to CHANGELOG.md.
5. Update matching brain/kb/ docs for CLI or catalog changes.
6. Open a PR.

Maintainers: npm test · npm run test:all · npm run pack:check · npm run publish:public

License

MIT — Kenmark ITan Solutions (package.json).

Links: Repository · Issues