Installation

Install the Ancher skills into any coding agent, or use Ancher's own installer to configure the hosted MCP server as well.

Ancher needs two things inside a coding agent:

• Skills — instructions that tell the AI when and how to save, search, research, and organize Ancher content.
• A way to reach Ancher — the ancher CLI, or the hosted Ancher MCP server.

Install

npx -y skills add streamify-one/ancher-agent-skills

The skills CLI installs the Ancher skills into whichever agent you use — its supported-agents list covers Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Zed, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and 70 more. It writes each agent’s own skills directory; support for optional skill features varies between agents, so check that list before relying on a specific one.

It installs skills and nothing else, so give the agent a way to reach Ancher. The CLI requires Node 24+:

npm install -g @ancher-ai/cli
ancher login

ancher login runs a browser sign-in once and saves the session locally; the skills call the CLI from then on. Confirm it worked with ancher whoami.

skills is a third-party tool maintained by Vercel Labs, not by Ancher.

What -y means

npx normally asks permission before temporarily downloading a package it has not installed yet. -y answers that npx download prompt automatically — here and for @ancher-ai/agent-skills below.

It does not approve Ancher actions, grant the AI access to your content, or send a token. Omit it if you prefer to confirm the download yourself:

npx skills add streamify-one/ancher-agent-skills

Install with MCP tools instead

On Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor you can have the agent talk to the hosted Ancher MCP server directly — structured tools rather than shelling out to the CLI. Ancher’s own installer configures both halves in one command:

npx -y @ancher-ai/agent-skills install

The installer finds Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, then configures the ones it finds. It does not install a local server or require an API token. The package is published as @ancher-ai/agent-skills on npm, with a read-only source mirror at streamify-one/ancher-agent-skills for reading and issue tracking.

Next, sign in to Ancher for the agent you use.

Do not run both installers. They write the same skill directories (~/.claude/skills, ~/.codex/skills, ~/.cursor/skills) under the same skill names, so whichever runs last wins.

Install options

# Configure only specific agents.
npx -y @ancher-ai/agent-skills install --agent claude,codex

# Preview every file and command without changing anything.
npx -y @ancher-ai/agent-skills install --print

# Add skills to the current repository instead of your user profile.
npx -y @ancher-ai/agent-skills install --project

# Remove Ancher skills and MCP configuration again.
npx -y @ancher-ai/agent-skills uninstall

The default installation is user-wide. It writes each agent’s skills to its native global directory and configures the hosted MCP server. With --project, skills are written into the current repository; Codex MCP configuration remains user-wide, so the installer prints the one command you need to run.

Persistent command

You can install the installer globally if you prefer a persistent command:

npm install -g @ancher-ai/agent-skills
ancher-agent-skills install

Native plugin installation

You may instead install the native plugin marketplace entry.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add streamify-one/ancher-agent-skills
/plugin install ancher@ancher-agent-skills

OpenAI Codex

codex plugin marketplace add streamify-one/ancher-agent-skills

Then start codex, open /plugins, install ancher, and begin a new session.