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Agent Skills

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Overview

Agent Skills are pre-built instructions that tell an agent how to perform a specific task. Skills can also bundle scripts, templates, and reference materials. Think of it as a complex, structured and highly repeatable prompt that tells an Agent to do a specific thing in a specific way.

Skills follow a standard specification and work with any agent that supports this spec. This includes popular coding agents like Cursor, Claude Code and Codex and tools like OpenClaw.

Have an idea for a Skill? We’d love for you to contribute.

Available Skills

We have an ever-growing set of Skills specific to building with You.com APIs using popular tools and frameworks. Check them out on GitHub: youdotcom-oss/agent-skills

ydc-ai-sdk-integration

Integrate Vercel AI SDK applications with real-time web search and content extraction.

youdotcom-cli

Enable your agents to use a universal CLI tool to interact with our APIs.

ydc-claude-agent-sdk-integration

Connect Claude Agent SDK to You.com’s MCP server.

ydc-openai-agent-sdk-integration

Add You.com MCP tools to OpenAI Agents SDK using Hosted MCP or Streamable HTTP modes.

ydc-crewai-mcp-integration

Integrate You.com’s remote MCP server with crewAI agents for real-time web search and content extraction via MCPServerHTTP or MCPServerAdapter.

teams-anthropic-integration

Add Anthropic’s Claude models to Microsoft Teams.ai applications, with optional You.com MCP integration for web search and content extraction.

Prerequisites

Before using any skill, you’ll need a You.com API key.

  1. Get your key at you.com/platform/api-keys
  2. Set the environment variable:
$export YDC_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"

Installation

Install All Skills

The fastest way to get started—installs all six skills at once:

$# Using npm
$npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills
$
$# Using Bun (recommended)
$bunx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills

Install Individual Skills

$# Install a single skill
$# Find the full list in our GitHub repo
$npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill youdotcom-cli
$
$# Install multiple specific skills
$npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill youdotcom-cli --skill ydc-ai-sdk-integration

Usage

Once installed, your AI coding agent will automatically activate the relevant skill when you describe what you want. For example:

  • “Add You.com CLI tools to my bash agent”
  • “Integrate Vercel AI SDK with You.com tools”
  • “Set up Claude Agent SDK with You.com MCP”
  • “Configure OpenAI Agents SDK with You.com MCP”
  • “Integrate You.com MCP with my crewAI agents”
  • “Add You.com to my Teams app with Anthropic”

Each skill provides step-by-step instructions, code templates, and validation checklists tailored to the framework.

Resources

GitHub Repository

Source code and all available skills

API Keys

Get your You.com API key