Add Upstream Skill

by MoizIbnYousaf

Add Upstream Skill is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by MoizIbnYousaf in Ai-Agent-Skills.

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Install Add Upstream Skill

Copy Add Upstream Skill into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills/tree/main/docs/workflows ~/.claude/skills/workflows

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: docs/workflows/add-an-upstream-skill.md in MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/workflows
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Add Upstream Skill does

Add Upstream Skill adds a remote skill entry to the active workspace without copying its source. Use it to keep your library shaped like your own while preserving upstream metadata and choosing shelf, branch, and reason.

Add Upstream Skill is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Add Upstream Skill comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code, cli and codex.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Add an Upstream Skill

Use add when you want a workspace entry but do not want to vendor the source.

From the bundled reference library:

npx ai-agent-skills add frontend-design --area frontend --branch Implementation --why "I want this on my shelf."

From a GitHub repo:

npx ai-agent-skills add anthropics/skills --skill ask-questions-if-underspecified --area workflow --branch Planning --why "I use this to tighten vague requests."

add writes to the active workspace only.

It keeps the upstream metadata:

description
source
sourceUrl
installSource
tags
labels
requires

You still choose:

shelf
branch
why it belongs

That keeps the workspace shaped like your own library instead of becoming a blind copy.

Frequently asked about Add Upstream Skill

What else does MoizIbnYousaf publish alongside Add Upstream Skill?
Add Upstream Skill is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Ask Questions If Underspecified, Audit Library Health and Backend Development. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Add Upstream Skill does, and is maintained by MoizIbnYousaf in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills page.
How does Add Upstream Skill compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Add Upstream Skill ranks #1246 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Add Upstream Skill against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.