positron-commands
100 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try.
Running Positron IDE commands: changing the window layout, focusing panes, clearing the console, opening a file or data file in the right editor, showing or reading an HTML file, URL or app in the Viewer, finding or adding interpreters, listing, switching, starting, restarting or interrupting sessions, setting up Python, reading, installing or updating a session's packages, running, stopping, debugging or troubleshooting a web app (Shiny, Flask, Dash, Streamlit, FastAPI, Gradio, marimo), readin…
What this skill can do
We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'positron-commands' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'positron-commands' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named positron-commands already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/posit-dev/positron' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'f98b95ec90086d9efaf6644cd3236adb4c816138' -- 'extensions/positron-skills/templates/positron-commands' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'extensions/positron-skills/templates/positron-commands' ~/.agents/skills/'positron-commands' && 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/'positron-commands' ~/.claude/skills/'positron-commands' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
Badge for your README
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-13 | f98b95e | 100 |
| 2026-11-07 | 5d355d4 | 100 |