Using AO

Using AO is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by Untrivial-ai in agent-orchestrator.

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Install Using AO

Copy Using AO 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/Untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator/tree/main/backend/internal/skillassets/using-ao ~/.claude/skills/using-ao

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/Untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: backend/internal/skillassets/using-ao/SKILL.md in Untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/using-ao
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Using AO does

Using AO catalogs the AO (Agent Orchestrator) CLI for spawning workers, managing sessions and projects, sending messages, controlling the shared browser, previewing pages, and daemon control.

Using AO is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Using AO comes from a repository tagged agent-fleet, agent-swarm, claude-code, codex-cli and git-worktrees.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

AO CLI Catalog

ao is a thin CLI over the local AO daemon. Every command is ao <command> --help for the authoritative flag list.

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

Frequently asked about Using AO

What else does Untrivial-ai publish alongside Using AO?
Using AO is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AO Desktop Dev, AO Desktop Dev and Bug Triage. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Using AO does, and is maintained by Untrivial-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator page.
How does Using AO compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Using AO ranks #392 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 Using AO against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.