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Agent Skills

Speed up development by installing Arkiv’s official agent skills into your AI coding assistant. Each skill gives your agent instant knowledge of Arkiv — the SDK, common patterns, and how to interact with the wider Arkiv ecosystem — so you don’t have to copy-paste docs into the chat.

What is a Skill?

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A skill is a set of instructions and domain knowledge that you install into your AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, GitHub Copilot, and others). Once installed, the agent can reference it automatically whenever you ask about a relevant topic. Skills follow the Anthropic Agent Skills spec, which is portable across runtimes.

Available skills

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Arkiv publishes its skills in a single repository: Arkiv-Network/skills.

arkiv-best-practices

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Teaches your agent how to build on Arkiv:

  • How the Arkiv SDK works (clients, queries, mutations, events)
  • Best practices (project attributes, security, data modeling, error handling)
  • Integration patterns (backend, React, wagmi)
  • Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
Terminal window
# npm
npx skills add https://github.com/Arkiv-Network/skills --skill arkiv-best-practices


# pnpm
pnpm dlx skills add https://github.com/Arkiv-Network/skills --skill arkiv-best-practices

arkiv-feedback

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Walks you through reporting a bug or sharing a feature idea, without leaving your editor. The skill mirrors the official issue forms on Arkiv-Network/reported-issues, asks the right questions, and submits the issue on your behalf via the GitHub CLI. If gh isn’t installed, it saves a structured draft to disk and points you at the form in your browser.

Terminal window
# npm
npx skills add https://github.com/Arkiv-Network/skills --skill arkiv-feedback


# pnpm
pnpm dlx skills add https://github.com/Arkiv-Network/skills --skill arkiv-feedback

Install everything at once

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Terminal window
# npm
npx skills add https://github.com/Arkiv-Network/skills --all


# pnpm
pnpm dlx skills add https://github.com/Arkiv-Network/skills --all

Pass -g (or --global) to install at the user level instead of the current project. See npx skills --help for the full set of flags (or pnpm dlx skills --help).

What to try

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Once the skills are installed, open your AI agent and try prompts like:

  • “Build a feature that lets users create and list posts stored on Arkiv”
  • “Audit my project — am I following Arkiv best practices?”
  • “Set up a React hook that reads Arkiv entities with TanStack Query”
  • “I hit a bug — help me file it on the Arkiv reported-issues repo”