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Zippy skill for coding agents

Zippy ships a skill in the standard Agent Skills format so coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex know how to drive the zippy CLI to author and publish your content: courses, lessons, rubrics, skill maps, evaluations, and assets.

Set up with your AI agent

The fastest way: paste one prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex and let it install the CLI, add the skill, and log you in.

Then just ask your agent to publish: it runs zippy login (email + one-time code) and takes it from there. Prefer to do it by hand? The manual steps are below.

heyzippy/zippy

Install the CLI

curl -fsSL https://heyzippy.io/install.sh | sh
zippy --version

macOS (arm64, amd64) and Linux (amd64, arm64). At the end, the installer offers to install the skill for you. Control it non-interactively:

curl -fsSL https://heyzippy.io/install.sh | sh -s -- --with-skill   # always install the skill
curl -fsSL https://heyzippy.io/install.sh | sh -s -- --no-skill # never install the skill

Install just the skill

The skill can be installed on its own with a single command:

curl -fsSL https://heyzippy.io/skills/install.sh | sh

Following the Agent Skills convention, the installer puts the files once in ~/.agents/skills/zippy/ (the cross-client location) and symlinks each detected agent's own skills directory at it: ~/.claude/skills/zippy (Claude Code), plus ~/.cursor/skills/zippy, ~/.codex/skills/zippy, ~/.windsurf/skills/zippy when those agents are present. It installs at user scope by default, so the skill is available in every project. One update touches one place.

Pick specific agents, install under the current project instead of home, or write to an exact path:

curl -fsSL https://heyzippy.io/skills/install.sh | sh -s -- --agent claude,cursor
curl -fsSL https://heyzippy.io/skills/install.sh | sh -s -- --project
curl -fsSL https://heyzippy.io/skills/install.sh | sh -s -- --dir path/to/skills/zippy

The skill files live in the public heyzippy/zippy repo (under skills/zippy/) and are the single source of truth, the installers download them straight from GitHub, so they always match the shipped CLI.

Point other agents at the skill

For an agent not in the list above, fetch the raw files and reference them from your rules or system prompt:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/heyzippy/zippy/main/skills/zippy/SKILL.md
curl -fsSL https://heyzippy.io/llms-full.txt

The first is the skill specification; the second is the complete Zippy reference as one plain-text file, handy for any agent tool or a custom system prompt.

What the skill can do

Once installed, an agent can authenticate and publish content for you:

zippy login                                   # email one-time code → ~/.zippy/config
zippy library push --all content/my-workspace --dry-run
zippy library push --all content/my-workspace --workspace-id <your-workspace-id>
zippy courses push --content-dir content/my-workspace/courses --course primary-6

Every push targets your workspace. Find your workspace id in Zippy under Settings → General, or just run zippy login, which fills it in automatically.

The skill covers the full CLI surface (library push, courses push, lessons push-dir, rubrics, assets publish), the content model, and the publish workflow, with progressive-disclosure references it loads on demand. See the full reference for everything.

Releases

The zippy binary ships from the heyzippy/zippy repository. The install command above always pulls the latest release; to pin a specific version, use the snippet below. The full command reference lives in cli.md.

Latest release
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Prebuilt binaries for macOS (arm64, amd64) and Linux (amd64, arm64). Pin a version:

curl -fsSL https://heyzippy.io/install.sh | ZIPPY_VERSION=v0.1.2 sh