Agentic Skill Installer — VS Code Extension

Browse, install, and update Agentic skills, prompts, and agents from multiple GitHub repositories — directly from VS Code.

Installing the Extension

Option 1 — From the Extensions tab in VS Code (recommended)

1. Open VS Code
2. Go to Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X)
3. Search for Agentic Skill Installer
4. Click Install

Option 2 — From the Marketplace

1. Open the VS Code Marketplace
2. Click Install
3. Confirm the prompt to open VS Code

Using the Extension

Once installed, the Agentic Skill Installer icon appears in the Activity Bar.

Add source repositories

The extension can pull skills, prompts, and agents from multiple GitHub repositories. To add a source:

1. Click the Agentic Skill Installer icon in the Activity Bar
2. Open the tree view menu (⋯) and select Add Source Repository
3. Paste a GitHub repository URL (e.g. https://github.com/my-org/my-repo)

To remove a source, use the menu option Remove Source Repository — a QuickPick list appears in the Command Palette (on top of VS Code) showing all configured repos so you can select which one to remove.

Browse the catalog

Click the search icon in the panel title bar to browse the catalog.

The extension authenticates via VS Code's built-in GitHub login, scans all configured source repositories, and displays the combined catalog of skills, prompts, and agents in a tree view.

Change grouping

Use Change Grouping from the tree view menu to switch between grouping modes:

• Category — group by Skills, Prompts, Agents
• Source — group by source repository (shows [Main] tag)
• Alphabetical — group by first letter
• Flat — single sorted list

Install skills

• Click the ⬇ icon next to any item in the tree view, or
• Run Agentic Skills: Install Agentic Skills to select multiple items from a QuickPick list

Re-downloading an item that already exists locally will overwrite local changes you made to the skill.

Update installed skills

Run Agentic Skills: Update Installed Skills to re-download the latest versions of everything you've previously installed.

Re-downloading an item that already exists locally will overwrite local changes you made to the skill.

Check what's installed

Run Agentic Skills: Show Installed Skills to see a summary of all installed items with their source info.

Setup Workspace

The Setup and help section in the sidebar includes:

• Setup Workspace — downloads and runs a setup prompt in Copilot Chat to check if your workspace is ready. This requires the main source repo to be configured accordingly.
• Help — links to the main source repository on GitHub. If no source is configured, shows a message asking you to add one.

Release Notes

1.0.11

• Minor optimization

1.0.10

• Update-available indicator — installed skills, prompts, and agents show a bold downward-arrow marker when their source has changed since install. Update a single item inline, or run Check Installed Skills for Updates to detect updates for items installed before this feature existed.

• Multi-repo support — in multi-root workspaces, choose which workspace folder skills install into via Select Target Repository. The catalog shows the active target and installed badges reflect that folder.

1.0.9

• Item preview — clicking any item in the catalog opens a styled Webview panel showing the README (for skills) or source file (for prompts, agents, installers) directly from GitHub, without saving to disk. Supports headings, code blocks, tables, lists, blockquotes, and inline formatting with VS Code theme-aware styling.

1.0.8

• Deep-link source support — when adding a source repository, you can now paste a GitHub folder URL (e.g. https://github.com/owner/repo/tree/main/.github/skills) to register a subfolder as an independent source. Its skills appear as their own group in the catalog, completely separate from any full-repo source on the same repository.

1.0.7

• Root-level skills/ directory support — recognizes the Agent Skills open standard directory layout
• Claude Code convention support — discovers skills from .claude/skills/, commands from .claude/commands/, and agents from .claude/agents/

1.0.6

• Bug fixing

1.0.5

• Theme-aware activity bar icon — separate dark and light variants so the icon is visible in both themes
• New marketplace icon — solid blue background ensures visibility on both light and dark marketplace surfaces

1.0.4

• Windows installer support — download, verify, extract, and run installer packages (.exe/.msi) directly from the catalog. Source repositories can define installers via install-mcp.md files with frontmatter metadata.
• Uninstall support — uninstalling an installer item looks up the program in Windows Add/Remove Programs and runs the registered uninstaller
• Category icons — distinct colored icons for Skills, Prompts, Agents, and Installers in the tree view
• Streamlined toolbar — combined Browse and Refresh into a single Refresh button; new multi-select Install icon

1.0.3

• Multi-repo support — configure multiple GitHub source repositories and browse their combined catalog
• Setup and help section — new sidebar section with Setup Workspace and Help items

1.0.2

• Cosmetic improvements

1.0.1

• Cosmetic improvements

1.0.0

• Initial public release

Prerequisites