# devboy-skills
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Skills subsystem for [`devboy-tools`](https://github.com/meteora-pro/devboy-tools) — procedural recipes that AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Kimi) load on top of the tool bundle.
This crate provides:
- A `SkillSource` trait for pluggable skill backends
- An `EmbeddedSkillSource` that ships baseline `SKILL.md` files inside the binary (via `rust-embed`)
- The `Skill` / `Frontmatter` types, including YAML frontmatter parsing with a fixed required-field set and extensible unknown fields
- Manifest-based install/upgrade lifecycle with collision detection
Implements [ADR-012 — skills subsystem](https://github.com/meteora-pro/devboy-tools/blob/main/docs/architecture/adr/ADR-012-skills-subsystem.md), [ADR-013](https://github.com/meteora-pro/devboy-tools/blob/main/docs/architecture/adr/ADR-013-skills-install-targets.md), [ADR-014](https://github.com/meteora-pro/devboy-tools/blob/main/docs/architecture/adr/ADR-014-skills-lifecycle.md), [ADR-015](https://github.com/meteora-pro/devboy-tools/blob/main/docs/architecture/adr/ADR-015-skills-session-traces.md).
## Features
- `trace` (default) — session-trace module (ADR-015). Pulls in `ulid` for session ids. Disable for a smaller install path.
## Add to your project
```toml
[dependencies]
devboy-skills = "0.26"
```
## Documentation
API reference on [docs.rs/devboy-skills](https://docs.rs/devboy-skills).
For the full bundle see the [main project README](https://github.com/meteora-pro/devboy-tools#readme).
## License
Apache-2.0 — see [LICENSE](https://github.com/meteora-pro/devboy-tools/blob/main/LICENSE).