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The skills ship with the CLI and match its version. skills get evals is the index of these docs and skills get evals <page> one page of them. The evolve pointer skill that skills install writes is served but never listed. The SDK skill is not served; it installs from the repository with npx skills add evolving-machines-lab/evolve --skill evolve-agents. EVOLVE_SKILLS_DIR names another skills directory to serve.

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skills list

List the skills the installed version serves, one line each. Bare evolve skills does the same.

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skills get

Print one or more skills, or one page. A second word that is not a skill name is a page of the first skill: its path under references/ without the suffix, as this site spells it (core-concepts/tasks).
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Also print every file under references/ and templates/, each behind a --- <path> --- line.
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Every skill, instead of naming them.

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skills path

Print the skills directory, or one skill’s folder.

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skills install

Install the evolve pointer skill for your agents. Each target gets <folder>/evolve/SKILL.md; the path written is printed. A file already there with different content is left alone unless --force.
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claude | codex | cursor | copilot | gemini | opencode | agents | all
Which agent home: ~/.claude, ~/.codex, ~/.cursor, ~/.copilot, ~/.gemini, ~/.config/opencode or ~/.agents, each under skills/. Defaults to all.
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dir
A skills directory of your own instead of --target.
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Overwrite an installed SKILL.md whose content differs.
With the skills CLI instead, the same pointer installs from the repository: npx skills add evolving-machines-lab/evolve.

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Global options

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Machine-readable JSON output.
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key
API key. Defaults to $EVOLVE_API_KEY.
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url
API base URL. Defaults to the Evolve dashboard API.