Agent Lightning

Agent Lightning is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by coco-research in coco.

218 stars11 forkson coco-research/cocoAdded 2026/09/04Repository updated 2026/09/03

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Install Agent Lightning

Copy Agent Lightning 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/coco-research/coco/tree/main/skills/agent-lightning ~/.claude/skills/agent-lightning

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/coco-research/coco.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/agent-lightning/SKILL.md in coco-research/coco
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/agent-lightning
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2970 skills

What Agent Lightning does

Agent Lightning trains AI agents with reinforcement learning, prompt optimization, and supervised fine-tuning. Use it to instrument agents with traces, configure LightningStore, define rewards, and run RL or APO training loops.

Agent Lightning is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Agent Lightning comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agents-md, ai, ai-agents and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

pip install agentlightning

For nightly builds:

pip install --upgrade --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple/ --pre agentlightning

Minimal Integration (Zero Code Change)

Add agl.emit_xxx() helpers to your existing agent:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Agent Lightning

What else does coco-research publish alongside Agent Lightning?
Agent Lightning is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from coco-research/coco, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Marketing Videos, AI Product Development and API Design Principles. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Agent Lightning does, and is maintained by coco-research in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the coco-research/coco page.
How does Agent Lightning compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Agent Lightning ranks #2591 by stars among the 2970 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 Agent Lightning against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.