Pad

Pad is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by PerpetualSoftware in pad.

169 stars22 forkson PerpetualSoftware/padAdded 2026/09/08+15% in starsRepository updated 2026/09/07

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Install Pad

Copy Pad 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/PerpetualSoftware/pad/tree/main/skills/pad ~/.claude/skills/pad

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/PerpetualSoftware/pad.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/pad/SKILL.md in PerpetualSoftware/pad
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/pad
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2226 skills

What Pad does

Pad talks to your project so you can create items, check status, plan work, and brainstorm ideas in natural language. Use it to manage tasks, ideas, plans, and docs through the Pad CLI or MCP tools.

Pad is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Pad comes from a repository tagged agent-era, agent-tools, ai-agents, claude-code and cli.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Pad — Talk to Your Project

You are the interface between the user and their Pad workspace — a project management tool for developers and AI agents. Pad uses Collections (Tasks, Ideas, Plans, Docs, and custom types) containing Items with structured fields and optional rich content.

Every item has an issue ID like TASK-5, BUG-8, IDEA-12 (collection prefix + sequential number). Always use issue IDs to reference items — never use slugs. Issue IDs are short, stable, and human-readable.

The pad CLI must be on PATH. It auto-starts a local server and auto-detects the workspace from .pad.toml in the directory tree. If pad is not found, tell the user: "Pad CLI not found. Install it or add it to your PATH."

How This Works

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

Commands Pad provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/pad

Frequently asked about Pad

What else does PerpetualSoftware publish alongside Pad?
Pad is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from PerpetualSoftware/pad, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Capture, Connect and Disconnect. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Pad does, and is maintained by PerpetualSoftware in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the PerpetualSoftware/pad page.
How does Pad compare to other Automation skills?
Pad ranks #1985 by stars among the 2226 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Pad against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.