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Public Preview Agent Skills are domain-specific knowledge files that give AI assistants structured context about Wherobots workflows, APIs, and best practices. With skills installed, your AI assistant produces more accurate commands, better interprets results, and handles multi-step operations more reliably. Without skills, the agent relies only on CLI help text and its general training data. With skills, it has structured context — leading to fewer errors, less back-and-forth, and more reliable multi-step operations.
If you use the Wherobots VS Code Extension in VS Code, Agent Skills are included with the extension and available automatically — no manual installation needed. In Cursor, other Code OSS editors, Claude Code, and other tools without the extension, skills must be installed manually using the commands below. See the Agentic Tools Overview for a full breakdown of what each tool installs automatically.

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Before you start

  • An agentic terminal or AI-powered editor such as OpenCode, Claude Code, Cursor, or another tool with terminal access.
  • Node.js installed (required for npx).

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Install agent skills

Install all Wherobots skills: 
npx skills add -g wherobots/agent-skills
Or install a specific skill: 
npx skills add wherobots/agent-skills --skill wherobots-usage
For more information on skills and the skills CLI, see the Skills documentation.

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Available skills

To see all available Wherobots skills, visit the wherobots/agent-skills repository.

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How skills work

Skills are installed as SKILL.md files in your project or globally. When your AI assistant starts a session, it reads these files to gain structured context about:
  • Wherobots APIs and endpoints — correct parameter names, expected payloads, and response formats.
  • Spatial SQL patterns — common query structures, function signatures, and best practices for geospatial operations.
  • Workflow patterns — recommended sequences for tasks like job submission, log streaming, and error recovery.
This context helps the agent make fewer mistakes and resolve errors without manual intervention.

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Next steps

Agentic Terminal Usage

Use the CLI with AI-powered terminals like Claude Code and OpenCode for natural language job management.

Configure the MCP Server

Set up the Wherobots MCP Server for spatial data exploration and query generation.

Install the CLI

Install and configure the Wherobots CLI for terminal-based access.

Get Started

See which agentic components are installed automatically and which require manual setup.