Install a community skill into Claude Code

This is syllago’s “download a plugin” experience: find a skill someone else published, install it into Claude Code, and start using it — no manual file copying.

What you need

• syllago installed and initialized (syllago init)
• Claude Code installed

1. Add a public registry

A registry is a git repo of shared content. The example uses the official syllago meta-registry:

syllago registry add https://github.com/OpenScribbler/syllago-meta-registry.git

Note

If syllago asks you to confirm trust for the registry on first use, review the prompt and accept — this is MOAT’s trust-on-first-use check. See Trust tiers for how registry trust works.

2. Sync it

syllago registry sync

This pulls the registry’s latest content into a local clone. Syncing never modifies your library or your providers — it only updates what’s available to browse.

3. Browse the available skills

syllago registry items --type skills

This lists every skill across your registries. Pick one that looks useful — the examples below use a skill named changelog-writer; substitute the name you actually chose.

4. Install it into Claude Code

syllago install changelog-writer --to claude-code

syllago resolves the skill from the registry, converts it to Claude Code’s format, and symlinks it into place. Add --dry-run first if you want to see what would be written before committing.

5. Verify and use it

Claude Code reads skills from ~/.claude/skills/ (global) and .claude/skills/ in a project. Confirm the install:

ls ~/.claude/skills/

Then start a Claude Code session and ask it to use the skill by name — Claude also invokes skills automatically when a task matches the skill’s description.

Related

• Skills — how syllago models skills across providers
• Claude Code provider reference — file locations and capability details
• syllago registry — full registry command reference