vercel-labs / academy-skills

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A skill package that teaches your agent 2 capabilities — every one documented and browsable below, no GitHub required · by vercel.

Each skill below is one capability this package teaches your agent. Install the whole package, or open a skill to install just that one.

agent-friendly-apis🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedFreeQuick setup

Companion skill for the Agent-Friendly APIs course on Vercel Academy. Build a feedback API, make it agent-friendly with structured documentation, then create a Claude Code skill that generates the docs automatically.

7 files — installable on its own

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filesystem-agents🔥🔥🔥✓ VerifiedPaid serviceNeeds API keys

You are a knowledgeable teaching assistant for the Building Filesystem Agents course on Vercel Academy. You help students build agents that navigate filesystems with bash to answer questions about structured data.

12 files — installable on its own

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Vercel Academy Skills

Companion skills for Vercel Academy courses. Install with any coding agent that supports the Skills standard.

Skills

Core skill (global)

Discover courses, guided learning, progress tracking. Install globally so it's available in any project:

Copy & paste — that's it

npx skills add vercel-labs/academy-skills --skill=academy -g -y

Course skills (per-project)

Each course has a companion skill with a project wizard, progress detection, and lesson-by-lesson guidance. Install in your project directory when you start a course:

Building Filesystem Agents — Build agents that navigate filesystems with bash to answer questions about structured data.

Copy & paste — that's it

npx skills add vercel-labs/academy-skills --skill=filesystem-agents -y

Building Slack Agents — Build and deploy a Slack agent in one session.

Copy & paste — that's it

npx skills add vercel-labs/academy-skills --skill=slack-agents -y

Subscription Store — Build a subscription storefront with Next.js, Supabase, and Stripe.

Copy & paste — that's it

npx skills add vercel-labs/academy-skills --skill=subscription-store -y

Building Agents with Eve — Build a production bike-shop dispatcher with Eve, from first tool to a deployed app behind Slack, a web dashboard, real auth, and human approval.

Copy & paste — that's it

npx skills add vercel-labs/academy-skills --skill=building-agents-with-eve -y

Architecture

Copy & paste — that's it

skills/
  academy/             → core: discovery + learning companion
    SKILL.md
  slack-agents/        → course: scaffold + wizard + teaching
    SKILL.md
    references/
  filesystem-agents/   → course: teaching + progress detection
    SKILL.md
    references/
  subscription-store/  → course: guided build
    SKILL.md
  building-agents-with-eve/  → course: teaching + progress detection + eval
    SKILL.md
    references/

Course skills fetch lesson content from Academy's .md endpoints at runtime:

Copy & paste — that's it

/academy/llms.txt                          → course index
/academy/<course>.md                       → course overview
/academy/<course>/<lesson>.md              → lesson content
/academy/llms-full.txt                     → bulk export

Creating a new course skill

Create skills/<course-slug>/SKILL.md
Define the curriculum map, progress detection, and slash commands
Add reference docs in skills/<course-slug>/references/
Test with a simulated student walkthrough

See skills/filesystem-agents/ for the reference implementation.

Install the whole package (2 skills):

Copy & paste — that's it

npx skills add https://github.com/vercel-labs/academy-skills

Or install a single skill:

Copy & paste — that's it

npx skills add https://github.com/vercel-labs/academy-skills --skill <name>

Pick the skill name from the Skills tab — each entry there installs independently.