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Skills

The Stellar CLI ships with a built-in skill subcommand. Running stellar skill prints a short Markdown guide that tells an AI agent how to drive the CLI, so there is nothing separate to install. Quickstart has your agent run it at the start of a session.

Ask your agent​

Run `stellar skill` and follow its conventions for every stellar command in this session.

stellar skill​

The guide covers network, keys, contract, container, and env. It tells the agent to set defaults with network use and keys use, keep contract IDs in aliases, use --send=no for reads, and account for storage TTLs. It does not cover stellar token, tx new, message signing, --build-only, allowances, or mainnet. Point your agent at the guides in these docs for those.

The guide is static text compiled into the binary (source), so it does not track flag changes or your local config. Where it differs from these docs on the CLI's own conventions, follow the guide. For example, it prefers --id over the canonical --contract-id because --id also works on older releases.

Optional: Stellar development skill​

stellar/stellar-dev-skill covers Stellar development beyond the CLI: Soroban contracts, client SDKs, Stellar RPC, assets, wallets, testing, and security. Nothing in these docs needs it. Add it if your agent also writes contracts or application code.

# Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add stellar/stellar-dev-skill
/plugin install stellar-dev@stellar-dev

# Codex, OpenCode, and other Agent Skills agents
npx skills add https://github.com/stellar/stellar-dev-skill

To install by hand, see the repository README.