# vespa skills

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## vespa skills

Manage Vespa AI-assistant skills

### Synopsis

Manage Vespa AI-assistant skills.

Skills teach AI coding assistants how to work with Vespa: schema authoring, application packages, queries, feeding and more. Skills are downloaded from https://github.com/vespa-engine/skills and installed for one or more agent harnesses: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Antigravity CLI.

```
vespa skills [flags]
```

### Options

```
-h, --help help for skills
```

### Options inherited from parent commands

```
-a, --application string The application to use. Format "tenant.application.instance" - instance is optional (tenant required for cloud targets)
  -C, --cluster string The container cluster to use. This is only required for applications with multiple clusters
  -c, --color string Whether to use colors in output. Must be "auto", "never", or "always" (default "auto")
  -i, --instance string The instance of the application to use
  -q, --quiet Print only errors
  -t, --target string The target platform to use. Must be "local", "cloud", "hosted" or an URL (default "local")
  -z, --zone string The zone to use. This defaults to a dev zone (cloud only)
```

### SEE ALSO

- [vespa](vespa.html) - The command-line tool for Vespa.ai
- [vespa skills install](vespa_skills_install.html) - Install Vespa AI-assistant skills
- [vespa skills list](vespa_skills_list.html) - List available Vespa AI-assistant skills
- [vespa skills update](vespa_skills_update.html) - Update previously installed Vespa AI-assistant skills

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- [vespa skills](#page-title)
- [vespa skills](#vespa-skills)
- [Synopsis](#synopsis)
- [Options](#options)
- [Options inherited from parent commands](#options-inherited-from-parent-commands)
- [SEE ALSO](#see-also)