EmDash agent skills
Agent Skills that teach coding agents how to build with EmDash, the Astro-native CMS.
| Skill | Use it for |
|---|---|
building-emdash-site | Schema and seeds, content queries, Portable Text, menus, taxonomies, deploy |
creating-plugins | Sandboxed and native EmDash plugins: hooks, routes, storage, admin UI |
emdash-cli | Managing an EmDash instance from the command line |
wordpress-theme-to-emdash | Porting a WordPress theme to an EmDash site |
wordpress-plugin-to-emdash | Porting WordPress plugin behavior to EmDash |
The WordPress porting skills link to building-emdash-site and creating-plugins, so install those alongside them.
Install
Any agent
skills installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Amp, Goose, Windsurf, Cline, Roo, Junie, and many more:
npx skills add emdash-cms/skills
Pass --skill <name> to pick individual skills, or -g to install for your user rather than the current project.
With the GitHub CLI:
gh skill install emdash-cms/skills --all
Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add emdash-cms/skills
/plugin install emdash@emdash
Skills are available as emdash:building-emdash-site and so on. Third-party marketplaces don't auto-update by default; run /plugin marketplace update emdash to pick up changes, or turn on auto-update in /plugin.
Codex
codex plugin marketplace add emdash-cms/skills
Then install the emdash plugin from the Plugins directory.
GitHub Copilot CLI
copilot plugin install emdash-cms/skills
In VS Code, run Chat: Install Plugin From Source and enter https://github.com/emdash-cms/skills.
Cursor
Open Customize → Plugins → From GitHub Repository and enter https://github.com/emdash-cms/skills.
Factory Droid
droid plugin marketplace add emdash-cms/skills
droid plugin install emdash@emdash
Manually
Copy the directories under skills/ into your agent's skills directory. .agents/skills/ in your project works for most agents.
Contributing
This repository is generated. The skills live in skills/ in the EmDash monorepo and sync here with each EmDash release, replacing anything edited directly. Open issues and pull requests there.
License
MIT