Installing AMD Skills

Installing AMD Skills#

Install AMD Skills with the skills CLI via npx. No clone or manual copying required.

npx skills add amd/skills

This prompts you to pick a skill and an install destination. To install a specific skill into specific agents, pass --skill with one or more --agent flags (e.g. cursor, claude-code, codex):

npx skills add amd/skills --skill local-ai-use --agent claude-code

Browse everything available before installing:

npx skills add amd/skills --list

npx requires Node.js. Prefer to do it by hand? See Manual installation.

Using a skill#

Once a skill is installed, reference it in plain language while talking to your agent. For example:

  • “Use AMD Skills to learn how to generate images locally instead of burning cloud tokens.”

  • “Use AMD Skills to deploy this LLM for inference on my AMD Instinct GPUs.”

In most cases the agent picks the right skill on its own from the description; explicit invocation is a fallback, not a requirement.

For hands-on, step-by-step guides that show a skill in action, see the walkthroughs.

Manual installation#

Until marketplace integration lands, install skills manually: clone this repo, then copy (or symlink) the skill folders you want from skills/ into your agent’s skills directory. Each agent discovers SKILL.md automatically.

git clone https://github.com/amd/skills.git amd-skills
cp -r amd-skills/skills/local-ai-use <agent-skills-dir>/

Agent

Skills directory (personal / project)

Cursor

~/.cursor/skills/ or .cursor/skills/

Claude Code

~/.claude/skills/ or .claude/skills/

Codex

$HOME/.agents/skills or $REPO_ROOT/.agents/skills