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Agent skills

The Dina CLI ships with agent skills: small instruction files that teach AI coding tools how to use the CLI correctly. Once installed, tools like Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, Gemini, and OpenAI Codex can deploy apps, read logs, and manage environment variables for you — without you having to explain the commands every time.

You don’t need to understand the details to benefit. If you use an AI coding tool, install the skills once and your tool will pick them up automatically.

Install skills

dina install --skills

The CLI walks you through a short interactive prompt:

  1. Pick which AI tools you use.
  2. Pick whether to install for this project only or globally for your user.
  3. Confirm, and the files are written.

That’s it. The next time you start a new chat in your AI tool, it’ll recognise that Dina is available and be able to help you ship.

What gets installed?

Skills are plain files on disk. Depending on the tool, they live somewhere like:

  • .claude/skills/ inside your project, or ~/.claude/skills/ for user-wide.
  • Similar folders for Cursor, Copilot, Gemini, and Codex.

Each skill is a short markdown file describing what the CLI does and when to use it. Nothing is run in the background, and nothing is sent anywhere — the AI tool reads the files locally when it needs them.

Keeping skills up to date

Every time you run a Dina command, the CLI quickly checks whether your installed skills are still current. If the CLI has been updated but your skills haven’t, you’ll see a warning like:

! Alert: installed skills are outdated. Run `dina doctor --fix` to update.

The fix is exactly what the message says:

dina doctor --fix

This reinstalls the latest skill files in the same locations you chose earlier.

Asking an AI tool to install the CLI for you

If you haven’t installed the CLI yet and you already use Claude Code, you can hand the whole job over:

Install the Dina CLI on my machine. See https://dina.sh/llms.txt for instructions.

Paste that into Claude Code and it will pick the right install method for your system, install the CLI, and optionally install the skills.

Removing skills

If you ever want to uninstall, delete the skill files from the paths the installer used. dina doctor will show you where they are if you’ve forgotten.