varg-publish-skill

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a media skill usually calls an AI service over the internet.

By vargHQ/skills (GitHub) · media · 25 stars · scanned at commit 72e8109

Turn your agent skill into a varg how to listing: reads a skill folder or repo, checks it against the varg media skill standard, fills the one card format every listing on varg how to (varg.ai/how-to) uses — name, one-line summary, use-when triggers, category, install command, a real example of the output — shows it to the person and publishes it for review through the varg MCP publish_skill tool (or the API with a varg key). Use when someone says "publish my skill", "list this skill on varg", …

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 13 places.

varg-publish-skill/README.md, line 11npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-publish-skill # Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok, Gemini CLI, OpenCode…
varg-publish-skill/SKILL.md, line 68`curl | bash` or install hooks, scripts calling unknown hosts, bundled media without a license, no SKILL.md description.
varg-publish-skill/SKILL.md, line 80| `install` | The exact command from the repo's docs; else `npx skills add <owner>/<repo> --skill <name>` only when the folder sits where that CLI finds it; els

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varg-publish-skill/references/card.md, line 13| `install` | no | 300 | Copied from the repo's README or docs. `npx skills add <owner>/<repo> --skill <name>` only when skills.sh lists it, the README document
varg-publish-skill/references/card.md, line 45"install": "npx skills add acme/video-skills --skill captions",
varg-publish-skill/references/standard-checklist.md, line 9- [ ] Scripts are safe: no `curl | bash`, no install or post-install hooks, network calls only to hosts the skill names
README.md, line 19npx skills add vargHQ/skills # pick skills and agents
README.md, line 20npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill caption-styles -a codex # one skill, one agent
README.md, line 283| Any agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode and 60+ more) | `npx skills add vargHQ/skills` or one skill: `npx skills add vargHQ
README.md, line 297- **Update skills installed with the skills CLI:** `npx skills update`.
README.md, line 298- **Pick agents and scope:** `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a claude-code -a codex -g -y` (`-g` global, `-y` no prompts, `--list` to see every s
README.md, line 299- **OpenCode:** `npx skills add vargHQ/skills -a opencode -g`, or copy one skill folder to `~/.config/opencode/skills/<skill>/`.
how-to/claude-code-video-skills/README.md, line 14npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill how-to-make-ai-video --skill video-skills --skill varg-ai --skill varg-publish-skill

Sends data to these websites: api.varg.ai

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

Found in 2 places.

varg-publish-skill/SKILL.md, line 59curl -s "https://api.varg.ai/v2/skills/search?q=<what it makes, URL-encoded>&kind=skill&limit=5"
varg-publish-skill/SKILL.md, line 110curl -s -X POST https://api.varg.ai/v2/skills/submissions \

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this.

Found in 2 places.

varg-publish-skill/SKILL.md, line 59curl -s "https://api.varg.ai/v2/skills/search?q=<what it makes, URL-encoded>&kind=skill&limit=5"
varg-publish-skill/SKILL.md, line 109KEY="${VARG_API_KEY:-$(grep -o '"api_key"[^,}]*' ~/.varg/credentials 2>/dev/null | head -1 | cut -d'"' -f4)}"

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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/'varg-publish-skill' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'varg-publish-skill' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named varg-publish-skill already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/vargHQ/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '72e8109188e3366ba8d365902a84d6b237dec1d7' -- 'varg-publish-skill' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'varg-publish-skill' ~/.agents/skills/'varg-publish-skill' && 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/'varg-publish-skill' ~/.claude/skills/'varg-publish-skill' (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
2026-11-07	`72e8109`	77