Skills

Skills are packaged instructions and documentation that teach AI coding assistants how to build with the ADK. They’re separate from Agent(0), the assistant built into the Dev Console: skills are for the external assistant you already code with, like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.

Once installed, the assistant uses them automatically when you ask it to build features, debug issues, write evals, or connect integrations. adk init installs them alongside your dependencies, so most projects get them out of the box.

Install

In Claude Code, install the plugin to get every skill and its slash commands:

/plugin marketplace add botpress/skills
/plugin install adk@botpress-skills

For Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, install with the skills CLI:

npx skills add botpress/skills -s '*' -a codex claude-code -y

Use bunx instead of npx if your project uses Bun. To install a single skill, pass --skill <name> (for example, --skill adk).

Available skills

Skill	What it teaches
adk	Core ADK framework: actions, tools, workflows, conversations, tables, knowledge, triggers, Zai, configuration
adk-debugger	Trace reading, log analysis, common failure diagnosis, and the debug loop
adk-evals	Eval file format, assertion types, CLI usage, and per-primitive testing patterns
adk-frontend	Authentication, type generation, client setup, and calling bot actions from React/Next.js
adk-integrations	Discovering, adding, configuring, and using integrations
adk-dev-console	What each Dev Console tab shows, and how to read Agent Steps, traces, and other UI
adk-docs	Creating, reviewing, updating, and searching project documentation

Slash commands

In Claude Code, type a command instead of describing what you need:

Command	What it does
/adk-init	Scaffold a new ADK project
/adk-build	Interview you about a new primitive or feature, then build it
/adk-test	Invoke a primitive end-to-end with realistic input
/adk-validate	Validate a primitive or a feature
/adk-debug	Debug bot issues using traces and logs
/adk-eval	Write, run, or debug evals
/adk-integration	Discover, add, and configure integrations
/adk-frontend	Build a frontend that integrates with a bot
/adk-dev-console	Explain Dev Console features and UI
/adk-explain	Explain a bot’s architecture, flow, and components
/adk-document	Create, review, update, sync, or search project docs
/adk-ship	Run pre-flight checks and deploy to production