Agent Skill
The skill is a single Markdown file that teaches a coding agent how to work with Spawned: the shape of an infra.json, the CLI commands and their flags, how to read a failed build, and what to do when a deploy is stuck. It is written for the agent rather than for you. You install it once, then describe what you want in plain language.
The skill lives at spawned.ai/SKILL.md and always describes the platform as it is today. It drives the CLI, so install the CLI first.
Ways to Install
The same file reaches your agent three ways. Pick by how often you deploy and which agent you use.
| Method | Use it when |
|---|---|
| Paste a URL | Any agent that can fetch a page, with nothing to install |
| Claude Code plugin | You work in Claude Code and deploy often enough to want it always loaded |
| File on disk | Your agent reads local files, or works without network access |
Paste a URL
Give any agent that can fetch a page this prompt:
Read https://spawned.ai/SKILL.md and use the Spawned CLI
to configure this codebase for my project.The agent fetches the guide, reads your code, writes an infra.json, and applies it. A project’s dashboard offers the same prompt with the project name already filled in, next to the CLI install command on an empty canvas.
Claude Code Plugin
The skill ships as a Claude Code plugin from a repository that acts as its own marketplace:
/plugin marketplace add spawned-ai/spawned-skill
/plugin install spawned@spawnedInvoke it with /spawned, or just ask Claude to deploy something. Update it with:
/plugin marketplace update spawned
/plugin update spawned@spawnedUpdate when a command, flag, or schema field the agent expects does not match what the CLI does. The skill watches for that mismatch and asks you to update when it sees one.
File on Disk
Save the file where your agent can read it:
mkdir -p ~/.config/spawned/skills
curl -s https://spawned.ai/SKILL.md \
> ~/.config/spawned/skills/SKILL.mdRun the same two commands to refresh the copy. This is the only method that can go stale without telling you, so re-fetch it when the CLI and the agent start to disagree.
Whichever method you use, spawned schema is the authoritative list of components, fields, and connections. When the skill and the schema disagree about a field, the schema is right.
Full Documentation for Agents
The skill covers operating Spawned: deploy, modify, debug, monitor. For everything else these docs cover, point an agent at spawned.ai/llms-full.txt, which is the complete documentation in one file, formatted for reading rather than browsing.