You.com Agent Skills and Plugins

Use You.com from coding agents for current web search, URL content extraction, cited research, finance research, and developer integration discovery.

This repo is for developers who want to:

add You.com MCP tools and skills to their coding agent quickly
use you-discover to find the right You.com API, MCP server, SDK, or docs path for an agentic project
package the same You.com skills for agent platforms such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot CLI, Kimi Code, Grok Build, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Pi, Hermes, and DeepSeek Harness

Start Here

Install the shared skills with the universal Agent Skills installer:

npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills

Then ask your agent to use the right skill:

Use you-web to find current docs and cite sources.
Use you-research to investigate this topic across multiple sources.
Use you-finance to research this company and cite market data.
Use you-discover to find the best way to integrate You.com MCP or SDKs into my agent.

Install one skill at a time if you only need a subset:

npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill you-web
npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill you-discover
npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill you-finance

Install for Your Platform

Platform	Install path
Agent Skills compatible clients	`npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills`
Claude Code	`/plugin marketplace add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills` then `/plugin install you@you-com`
GitHub Copilot CLI	`copilot plugin marketplace add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills` then `copilot plugin install you@you-com`
Codex	`codex plugin marketplace add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --sparse .agents/plugins`
Cursor	Install this repository from the Cursor plugin UI or CLI
Kimi Code	`/plugins install <repo url>`
Grok Build	`grok plugin marketplace add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills` then `grok plugin install you --trust`
OpenCode	`opencode plugin @youdotcom-oss/opencode`
OpenClaw	`openclaw plugins install clawhub:you` or `openclaw plugins install npm:@youdotcom-oss/openclaw`
Pi	`pi install npm:@youdotcom-oss/pi`
Hermes	`hermes plugins install youdotcom-oss/agent-skills`
DeepSeek Harness	`dsh plugin add @youdotcom-oss/dsh-plugin`

The top-level plugin manifests reuse the shared skills/ directory when the host supports it. Packages under packages/ include host-specific metadata, copied skills, or runtime adapters where needed.

Configure You.com MCP servers

Core remote MCP endpoints:

Endpoint	Use it for
`https://api.you.com/mcp`	Authenticated You.com MCP tools
`https://you.com/docs/_mcp/server`	You.com docs search

For clients that use API-key headers:

export YDC_API_KEY="your-api-key"

{
  "Authorization": "Bearer ${YDC_API_KEY}"
}

Get an API key at you.com/platform/api-keys.

Useful tool profiles:

Endpoint	Use it for
`https://api.you.com/mcp`	Authenticated You.com MCP tools
`https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free`	Keyless basic `you-search`
`https://api.you.com/mcp/finance`	Finance-only MCP setup
`https://api.you.com/mcp/research`	Research-only MCP setup

Some clients use OAuth instead of a static API key. The skills are written to guide the agent through the best available auth path for the current host.

Skills

The shared skills route agents to the lightest You.com surface that fits the task. MCP tools are the default for web search and URL reading; managed research (you-research) and finance (you-finance) answers go through their dedicated single-tool MCP endpoints.

Skill	Use it for
`you-web`	Current web search and URL reading with a source-reading, citation-first pipeline.
`you-free`	Keyless basic web search with `you-search` only.
`you-research`	Routing research tasks between agent-led search and one-shot cited synthesis with the `you-research` MCP tool.
`you-finance`	Answering finance questions through the `you-finance` MCP tool with payment-aware fallbacks.
`you-discover`	Finding how to integrate You.com APIs, MCP servers, SDKs, docs, and tools into agentic projects.

you-discover is the best starting point when your goal is to build with You.com rather than just search with it. Ask it questions like:

Use you-discover to find the best You.com integration path for a TypeScript coding agent.
Use you-discover to compare You.com MCP, Python SDK, and direct API options for my app.

Packages

Package	Purpose
`@youdotcom-oss/opencode`	OpenCode plugin that registers You.com skills and remote MCP server configs.
`@youdotcom-oss/openclaw`	OpenClaw plugin with You.com skills and `YDC_API_KEY` setup metadata.
`@youdotcom-oss/pi`	Pi package that registers You.com skills and bridges You.com MCP tools.
`@youdotcom-oss/dsh-plugin`	DeepSeek Harness plugin with You.com skills and MCP server mounts.

See each package README for host-specific details.

Repository Layout

Path	Purpose
`skills/`	Shared You.com skills
`plugin.json`	Agent Plugins (portable) manifest
`.claude-plugin/`	Claude Code plugin manifest
`.cursor-plugin/`	Cursor plugin manifest
`.codex-plugin/`	Codex and ChatGPT plugin manifest
`.plugin/`	GitHub Copilot CLI plugin manifest
`.kimi-plugin/`	Kimi Code plugin manifest
`.grok-plugin/`	Grok Build plugin manifest
`packages/opencode/`	OpenCode package
`packages/openclaw/`	OpenClaw package
`packages/pi/`	Pi package
`packages/dsh-plugin/`	DeepSeek Harness package
`skills.sh.json`	skills.sh display grouping for top-level skills

Development

Install dependencies with Bun, then run checks:

bun install
bun test
bun run check

Package-level checks:

bun run --filter '@youdotcom-oss/opencode' test
bun run --filter '@youdotcom-oss/openclaw' test
bun run --filter '@youdotcom-oss/pi' test
bun run --filter '@youdotcom-oss/dsh-plugin' test

Validate shared skill metadata and structure:

bun run validate:skills

Safety Model

Web pages, search results, extracted content, catalog entries, and docs results are external data. The skills instruct agents to treat them as untrusted evidence, not as instructions.

License

MIT, see LICENSE.

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