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What Coconut skills are

A Coconut skill is a SKILL.md file that runs on a Coconut instance — a VM with the nut CLI installed and a .nut/ directory for state. At runtime, Claude Code (or any equivalent agent loop) on the instance reads the SKILL.md and executes nut subcommands to manipulate tasks, knowledge, context, and third‑party connectors. The lovelybunch/coconut-skills repository is a Claude Code plugin marketplace that hosts ready‑to‑install skills for Coconut. It currently ships one plugin (coconut-skills) containing a meta‑skill, coconut-skills-creator, that authors new Coconut SKILL.md files from a plain‑English goal or a rough list of steps. Key benefits:
  • Zero‑config install — register the marketplace once, install plugins by name.
  • Auto‑trigger — installed skills surface themselves in any session where they’re relevant.
  • Composable — drop a new SKILL.md into the repo’s plugin folder and it’s picked up automatically, no manifest edits needed.
  • Portable — the same skills work on any Coconut instance with the nut CLI.

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Install in Claude Code

1

Add the marketplace

In any Claude Code session, register the repository as a plugin marketplace:
/plugin marketplace add lovelybunch/coconut-skills
2

Install the plugin

Install the coconut-skills plugin from that marketplace:
/plugin install coconut-skills@coconut-skills
3

Use it

No further setup is needed. The skill auto‑triggers in any session where it’s relevant — for example, when you describe a new Coconut skill you want to build.
You can run both commands back‑to‑back. The first registers the repo as a marketplace; the second installs the plugin from it.

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Install in other agents

For agents that support SKILL.md files but aren’t Claude Code (e.g. Cursor, Codex), you can install the same skills with openskills: 
npx openskills install lovelybunch/coconut-skills
openskills is a third‑party tool and is not affiliated with Anthropic or Coconut.

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Using the skills creator

Once installed, just describe what you want a Coconut skill to do — the coconut-skills-creator meta‑skill picks it up and produces a SKILL.md you can install on your Coconut.
“Write a Coconut skill that scrapes Google News for AI industry topics and writes a summary to .nut/knowledge/market.md.”
The generated SKILL.md will use the nut CLI to manipulate tasks, knowledge, context, and connectors on the target instance.

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Adding more skills

The marketplace is designed to grow. To contribute a new skill, drop a SKILL.md into: 
plugins/coconut-skills/skills/<your-skill-name>/SKILL.md
…in the coconut-skills repo. It will be picked up automatically — no manifest changes required.

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