setup-node

84 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By Melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills (GitHub) · coding · 35 stars · scanned at commit 6a0180a

Install Homebrew (macOS) and Node.js with npm on macOS, Linux or Windows, so npx, npm install -g and the CLIs that need them work. Use when node, npm or npx is missing or "command not found", or before setup-cloudflare, setup-convex, setup-lumail or setup-dev-browser.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Sends data to these websites: raw.githubusercontent.com, nodejs.org

The author does not mention this.

Found in 4 places.

skills/setup-node/SKILL.md, line 8If you got this skill from a link instead of a local folder, install nothing else from the repo: download a file it links only when a step needs it, with `curl
skills/setup-node/SKILL.md, line 15/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
skills/setup-node/scripts/install-node.sh, line 58VERSION="$(curl -fsSL https://nodejs.org/dist/index.json | tr '{' '\n' | grep -v '"lts":false' | grep -o '"version":"v[0-9.]*"' | head -1 | cut -d'"' -f4)"

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skills/setup-node/scripts/install-node.sh, line 62curl -fsSL "https://nodejs.org/dist/$VERSION/node-$VERSION-$PLATFORM-$CPU.tar.gz" -o "$TMP/node.tar.gz"

Downloads and installs other software

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

Found in 5 places.

skills/setup-node/SKILL.md, line 15/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
skills/setup-node/SKILL.md, line 20- macOS and Linux: run [scripts/install-node.sh](scripts/install-node.sh). On macOS it uses `brew install node` and writes Homebrew into the shell config so new
skills/setup-node/SKILL.md, line 245. Make sure global installs work without admin rights: run `npm config get prefix`. If `npm install -g` fails with `EACCES`, run `npm config set prefix ~/.loca

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skills/setup-node/SKILL.md, line 256. Prove it: `node --version && npm --version && npx --version`, then `npx -y cowsay ok` prints a cow. Then check a new session finds it too: `$SHELL -lic 'node
skills/setup-node/scripts/install-node.sh, line 51brew install node

Runs commands on your computer

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

Found in 1 place.

skills/setup-node/SKILL.md, line 15/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'setup-node' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'setup-node' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named setup-node already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/Melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '6a0180aa7d89c7b572ecc7cbc47ed1d42a6ead62' -- 'skills/setup-node' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/setup-node' ~/.agents/skills/'setup-node' && 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/'setup-node' ~/.claude/skills/'setup-node' (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
2026-11-09	`6a0180a`	84
2026-11-07	`57b7962`	84