How do I install Agent Skills?

Copy the stdio config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.

Does Agent Skills need an API key?

No required environment variable is listed on this record.

What transport does Agent Skills use?

Agent Skills runs locally over stdio.

When was Agent Skills last checked?

Last checked 2026-10-27. Agent skills that give AI agents live web data — search, scrape, and extract structured data with Extraction Templates and Web Search Agents, plus one-command business intelligence workflows. Plugin and MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Grok.

Agent Skills MCP server

Agent credential protocol: see AUTH.md, the file agents read to authenticate to the Nimble API. Served live at https://nimbleway.com/auth.md.

Skills

Category	Skills	What you get
Business Research	competitor-intel · company-deep-dive · market-finder	Competitor monitoring, 360° company research, and market discovery. Find all businesses of a given type in any geography with multi-source verification
Marketing	competitor-positioning · brand-mention-monitor · launch-monitor	Track how competitors position themselves: messaging shifts, pricing changes, content gaps, battlecard inputs
SEO	seo-intel	All-in-one SEO intelligence: keyword research, rank tracking, technical site audits with JS rendering, content gap analysis, competitor on-page teardowns, AI visibility across 5 platforms, and GitHub repo SEO. Single entry point with intent-based routing
Productivity	meeting-prep · local-places	Walk into any meeting fully briefed: attendee backgrounds, company context, talking points, relationship mapping. Discover and score local businesses in any neighborhood with interactive maps
Healthcare	healthcare-providers-extract · enrich · verify	Extract structured practitioner data from practice websites, enrich provider lists with missing fields, and verify credentials against the NPI registry
Human Resources	talent-sourcing	Source and shortlist candidates from live web data. More skills (comp analysis, interview prep, onboarding) planned
Web Data Toolkit	nimble-web-expert	Search, scrape, extract, map, and crawl any website. Run site-specific Extraction Templates for clean structured data, and Web Search Agents for open-ended research with citations
Data Platforms	nimble-databricks-data-products	Turn live web data into Databricks data products: discover Nimble agents, scrape into Delta tables, and build an AI/BI dashboard and/or a deployed Databricks App

Business Research, Marketing, Productivity, and Healthcare skills are one-command workflows. They spawn parallel sub-agents, gather live web data via Nimble APIs, synthesize findings, and deliver structured reports with dates and source URLs. They learn from previous runs and only surface what's new.

Every skill lives directly under skills/. The category above is recorded as metadata.category in each skill's SKILL.md frontmatter. The plugin platforms require a flat skills tree, so categories are metadata rather than folders. See CLAUDE.md.

Web Data Toolkit skills expose Nimble's raw capabilities for any web task and power the business skills under the hood: search and extract for raw data, Extraction Templates for reusable site-specific scraping, and Web Search Agents for open-ended research, enrichment, and dataset building.

Quick Start

1. Install

npm i -g @nimble-way/nimble-cli
export NIMBLE_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"

Then add the skills to your agent:

Agent	Command
Claude Code, Claude Cowork, claude.ai	`/plugin install nimble`
Cursor	`/add-plugin nimble`
ChatGPT, Codex app	Open the Plugins tab and install Nimble
Codex CLI	`/plugins`, install Nimble, then start a new session
Other MCP clients, npx skills	See more install options

2. Try it

Ask in plain language. The matching skill picks it up.

Ask your agent	Skill	What you get
"Tell me about acme.com"	company-deep-dive	A sourced 360° report: funding, leadership, product, and recent news, each with a date and a link
"Prepare me for my meeting with Jane from Acme Corp"	meeting-prep	Attendee backgrounds, company context, and talking points
"What are my competitors doing this week?"	competitor-intel	Launches, hiring, and funding signals. The first run asks who your competitors are
"Find all coffee shops in Williamsburg, Brooklyn"	local-places	A ranked list with reviews, social presence, and an interactive map
"Scrape the pricing page at example.com"	nimble-web-expert	Structured data from any page, ready to use

Prefer the terminal? The CLI works on its own:

nimble search --query "AI agent frameworks" --max-results 10

More install options

API key in settings. Instead of exporting it, add it permanently to ~/.claude/settings.json:

{ "env": { "NIMBLE_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here" } }

Claude plugin details. The plugin's .mcp.json auto-registers as a Connector pointing at the Nimble MCP server over native HTTP with OAuth, so there's no API key header to manage. On first use, run /mcp and authenticate nimble in your browser.

In claude.ai / Cowork the connector appears under Customize → Connectors as Nimble. Click Connect and complete the browser login to activate it (you can create a Nimble account inline if you don't have one).

Cursor from a clone. Clone the repo and open it in Cursor. The plugin system auto-discovers skills from .cursor-plugin/plugin.json.

Manual install (raw MCP clients, or when you'd rather use an API key):

claude mcp add --transport http nimble https://mcp.nimbleway.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer ${NIMBLE_API_KEY}"

Restart Claude Code after running this. MCP servers added mid-session aren't available until the next launch.

npx skills CLI:

npx skills add Nimbleway/agent-skills

To install a single skill:

npx skills add Nimbleway/agent-skills --skill competitor-intel

To list available skills:

npx skills add Nimbleway/agent-skills --list

How It Works

Nimble Web Search Skills follow a shared pattern: preflight (check CLI, load profile) → parallel research (spawn sub-agents for concurrent data gathering) → analysis (synthesize findings, deduplicate against previous runs) → report (structured output with sources) → distribute (offer Notion/Slack delivery).

Core skills expose the Nimble CLI directly: search, extract, map, crawl, run Extraction Templates, and run Web Search Agents.

Local Web Knowledge Wiki

Skills maintain a local web knowledge wiki at ~/.nimble/memory/: live web intelligence that compounds across sessions, so your agent never starts from scratch. Inspired by Karpathy's LLM Wiki: an AI-maintained, human-owned knowledge base that gets smarter with every run.

Local-first indexes: per-directory entity catalogs for instant lookup, no vector DB needed
Obsidian-compatible: [[wiki links]] cross-reference people, companies, and competitors. Open ~/.nimble/memory/ in Obsidian to browse your intelligence graph
Cross-entity synthesis: patterns across competitors, pricing trends, and market signals are surfaced automatically
Ad-hoc insights: say "remember this" mid-conversation and it compounds into the right entity page
Activity log: grep-friendly record of what was learned, when, and by which skill

Every finding carries a verified event date and source URL. Stale signals are dropped, not reported, so your context is always current.

Platform Compatibility

Aspect	Claude Code	Cursor	Codex	Grok Build	npx skills
Plugin config	`.claude-plugin/`	`.cursor-plugin/`	`.codex-plugin/`	`.grok-plugin/`	N/A (reads `skills/`)
MCP config	`.mcp.json`	user's `.cursor/mcp.json`	`.mcp.json` (shared)	inline in manifest	Manual setup
Rules	N/A	`rules/*.mdc`	N/A	N/A	N/A
Skills	`skills/` (shared)	`skills/` (shared)	`skills/` (shared)	`skills/` (shared)	`skills/` (shared)

All platforms read the same skills/ directory. Platform-specific files coexist without interference.

The repository is also an Agent Plugins v1.0.0 package, the vendor-neutral format used by VS Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, and ChatGPT & Codex. Root mcp.json is that format's canonical MCP config. Cursor is listed above as reading the user's own .cursor/mcp.json because that is where a Cursor user pastes the snippet. Cursor does not load this repository's root mcp.json.

Why there are two MCP config files

mcp.json and .mcp.json describe the same endpoint in different vocabularies, and no single file satisfies every consumer:

Consumer	Transport declared as
Root `mcp.json` (Agent Plugins)	`"type": "streamable-http"`
`.mcp.json` (Claude Code)	`"type": "http"`
Codex	no `type` key; HTTP is inferred from `url`

The portable schema sets additionalProperties: false at the root and on every server, so there is no room to carry a second vocabulary in one file. .mcp.json is the file Claude Code auto-registers as a Connector, so the two are kept separate deliberately rather than merged. python3 scripts/check-plugin-manifests.py validates both.

Every skill directory is an immediate child of skills/, with its vertical recorded as metadata.category in the frontmatter. Reference documents inside a skill's references/ directory are named reference.md, never SKILL.md, which would register them as skills on platforms that discover recursively. bash scripts/check-plugin-structure.sh enforces both rules, and python3 scripts/check-plugin-manifests.py validates the per-platform manifests.

Grok Build is the one platform whose MCP server is declared inline in its manifest rather than by a path to .mcp.json. That keeps .mcp.json identical for Claude Code, whose plugin install auto-registers it as a Connector over native HTTP with OAuth. CI asserts the two declarations never drift apart.

CLI Commands

Command	Description
`nimble search --query "<q>"`	Real-time web search
`nimble extract --url "<url>" --format markdown`	Extract content from a URL
`nimble map --url "<url>" --limit 20`	Discover URLs on a site
`nimble crawl run --url "<url>" --limit 50`	Crawl a website section
`nimble extract:templates list --limit 100`	Browse Extraction Templates for known sites
`nimble extract:templates run --template <name> --params '{...}'`	Run an Extraction Template
`nimble agents run --agent-name <name> --input "<task>"`	Start a Web Search Agent run: creates the named agent, or reuses it on repeat calls
`nimble agents:runs create --agent-id <id> --input "<task>"`	Start a run against an agent you already hold the ID for
`nimble agents:runs get / result --agent-id <id> --run-id <id>`	Poll a run to a terminal state, then fetch its output and citations

Contributing

Have a web data workflow that should be one command? We'd love new skills, whether it's sales prospecting, lead enrichment, or anything that turns web data into action. See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to build and publish your own.

License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

The MIT license covers the code, skills, and documentation in this repository. It does not grant rights to Nimble's trademarks or brand assets: the Nimble name, the Nimble logo, and the brand marks under assets/ remain the property of Nimble and are not licensed for reuse.

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How do I install Agent Skills?

Does Agent Skills need an API key?

What transport does Agent Skills use?

When was Agent Skills last checked?

Documentation

Skills

Quick Start

1. Install

2. Try it

More install options

How It Works

Local Web Knowledge Wiki

Platform Compatibility

Why there are two MCP config files

CLI Commands

Contributing

Links

License

Add this server

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

Server facts

About Agent Skills

Tools

Questions

How do I install Agent Skills?

Does Agent Skills need an API key?

What transport does Agent Skills use?

When was Agent Skills last checked?

Documentation

Skills

Quick Start

1. Install

2. Try it

More install options

How It Works

Local Web Knowledge Wiki

Platform Compatibility

Why there are two MCP config files

CLI Commands

Contributing

Links

License