✨ skilless.ai
Empower Your Agent with Real Data
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Why Skilless?
Your AI is great at writing and thinking — but ask it to go look something up, and it hits a wall:
- 🔍 "Find recent reviews of this product" → no good free search, everything useful costs money
- 🌐 "Read what's on this webpage" → returns raw HTML soup, completely unreadable
- 📺 "What does this YouTube video cover?" → can't extract subtitles, too much manual work
- 📡 "Follow these news feeds and summarize updates" → have to write the code yourself
Skilless turns this into one command:
curl -LsSf https://skilless.ai/install | bash
Auto-detects your environment, creates an isolated virtual environment, installs all dependencies. Zero system pollution, no sudo required, uninstalls cleanly.
What You Can Do After Installing
💡 Recommended: Use OpenCode — open source, free, works great with Skilless out of the box. Also compatible with OpenClaw, Kilo Code, Cursor, and Claude Code.
Just tell your AI what you need — it reads the skill files and figures out the rest:
- "Find reviews of this product online" → searches the web
- "Read what's on this page and summarize it" → extracts clean content from any URL
- "What does this YouTube video talk about?" → pulls the transcript
- "What's new in this RSS feed?" → parses and summarizes the feed
You don't need to remember any commands. That's the point.
Real-World Use Cases
📹 Video Download
- YouTube → Download videos for offline viewing, extract subtitles, or get transcripts
- Bilibili → Save Chinese videos locally, extract CC and danmaku
- TikTok, Twitter/X, Twitch, Vimeo → Download clips, VODs, and videos without watermarks
- 1700+ more sites → Dailymotion, Rumble, Odysee, SoundCloud, Reddit video, and more
📝 Video Subtitles & Transcripts
- Extract auto-generated or manual subtitles from any video
- Organize fast-paced content into readable notes
- Translate video subtitles to your language
- Generate summaries from video transcripts
🎵 Media Processing
- Extract audio from video as MP3
- Compress large video files to save space
- Convert between formats (mkv→mp4, wav→mp3, etc.)
🔍 Web Search
- "Help me compare noise-canceling headphones under $300" → searches reviews across the web
- "What's the latest news on AI video generation?" → finds and summarizes recent articles
- "Research the best practices for RAG systems" → semantic search for technical content
🌐 Web Content
- "Read this article and summarize the key points" → extracts clean content
- "Extract the main points from this documentation" → parses technical docs
- "What does this page say about X?" → finds specific information
📊 Deep Research
- Multi-source comparison → "Compare the top 5 project management tools and recommend one for a small team"
- Travel planning → "Create a 7-day Tokyo guide with food and attraction recommendations"
- Industry analysis → "Research all video generation AI models and create a comprehensive report"
- Fact-checked reports → cross-validated information from multiple sources
✍️ Content Writing
- Draft professional emails on any topic
- Write articles backed by real research
- Create documentation with proper citations
Real Example: A user recently asked: "Research all the video generation models on the market and create a comprehensive report." Skilless automatically searched, read sources, cross-checked facts, and produced a structured multi-section report — all in one conversation.
Three AI Skills
Skills are installed as SKILL.md files under ~/.agents/skills/. Your Agent reads them automatically and knows when to use which capability:
| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Brainstorming | Turn vague ideas into actionable plans through dialogue — proposes 2-3 options with trade-offs |
| Research | Multi-source cross-validated deep research — transforms AI from text generator to active researcher |
| Writing | Produce articles, docs, and reports backed by real research data |
Skill Ecosystem
The three skills work together as a connected system — each can invoke the others when needed:
graph LR
B["🧠 Brainstorming"] -->|need data| R["🔍 Research"]
B -->|document plan| W["✍️ Writing"]
R -->|write report| W
R -->|clarify scope| B
W -->|gather data| R
W -->|clarify brief| B
Quick Install
Mac / Linux
curl -LsSf https://skilless.ai/install | bash
Windows (PowerShell)
Invoke-RestMethod https://skilless.ai/install.ps1 | Invoke-Expression
What does this command actually install?
- Installs uv — ultra-fast Python package manager, placed in
~/.local/bin - Network detection — auto-detects your environment and switches to local mirrors (Tsinghua TUNA in China) if needed
- Isolated deployment — creates a fully isolated virtual environment in
~/.agents/skills/skilless/with all dependencies:yt-dlpfastmcpjina readerfeedparser - Exposes CLI — generates the
skilless.aiexecutable, ready to use immediately
Zero system pollution · No sudo required · Easy to uninstall
Technology Stack
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Jina Reader | Web page extraction |
| Exa | AI semantic search, free, no key needed |
| yt-dlp | Video & subtitle extraction, 1700+ sites |
| feedparser | RSS/Atom parsing |
| uv | Ultra-fast Python package manager, isolated deployment |
FAQ
Do I need API keys?
No. All tools use free tiers: Exa search is accessed for free via MCP, Jina Reader requires no key, yt-dlp runs entirely locally.
Does this modify my system environment?
No. Everything is installed in an isolated virtual environment under ~/.agents/skills/skilless/. No sudo, no changes to global Python or Node.js.
Which AI tools are supported?
Any tool that reads SKILL.md files from ~/.agents/skills/ will work. We recommend OpenCode — it's open source and free. Also works with OpenClaw, Kilo Code, Cursor, and Claude Code.
How do I uninstall?
rm -rf ~/.agents/skills/skilless
rm -rf ~/.agents/skills/skilless-*