skill-template

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.

By gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree (GitHub) · research · 22 stars · scanned at commit 9b4d9b9

Bootstrap a new standalone skill repo under gaia-research/ from the canonical template set at gaia-research/gaia-research/templates/skill-repo/. Handles the full flow: interactive prompts for all placeholders, fetches templates via the GitHub API, substitutes values, creates the new repo (gaia-research/skill-<name>), writes README.md / SKILL.md / install.sh / .gitignore / LICENSE / powered-by-gaia.svg, makes the initial commit and pushes. Also supports update mode: re-applies the template struc…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 3 places.

.agents/skills/skill-template/SKILL.md, line 86BASE="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gaia-research/gaia-research/main/templates/skill-repo"
.agents/skills/skill-template/SKILL.md, line 147OUT_DIR="/tmp/${REPO_SLUG}"
.agents/skills/skill-template/SKILL.md, line 195git add -A

Sends data to these websites: raw.githubusercontent.com

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a research skill.

Found in 2 places.

.agents/skills/skill-template/SKILL.md, line 90curl -fsSL "${BASE}/${f}" -o "${TMPDIR_TEMPLATES}/${f}"
.agents/skills/skill-template/SKILL.md, line 171bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gaia-research/<repo-slug>/main/install.sh)

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 1 place.

.agents/skills/skill-template/SKILL.md, line 171bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gaia-research/<repo-slug>/main/install.sh)

Safer alternatives

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'skill-template' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'skill-template' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named skill-template already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '9b4d9b98043140188f00b14d0ac8fa6bc02491b7' -- '.agents/skills/skill-template' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'.agents/skills/skill-template' ~/.agents/skills/'skill-template' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'skill-template' ~/.claude/skills/'skill-template' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-14	`9b4d9b9`	79
2026-11-10	`f27bfd1`	79

Also found in

Identical copies of this skill exist at:

gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree/.claude/skills/skill-template