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skill-downloader

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Download Claude Code skills from GitHub.

Software Engineering#automation#Claude#GitHub#archive#download#install
Authornicepkg
Version1.0.0
Installs0

System Documentation

What problem does it solve?

This skill automates the download and installation of Claude Code skills from GitHub repositories, archives, and direct URLs, reducing manual steps and ensuring SKILL.md metadata validation.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Unified downloader: fetches skills from GitHub (including tree paths), compressed archives (.zip, .tar.gz, .tgz, .skill), and direct URLs.
  • Validation and installation: verifies SKILL.md frontmatter (name and description) and installs the skill into the .claude/skills directory.
  • Safe updates: supports --force to overwrite existing skills and handles common errors (missing SKILL.md, invalid archives).

Quick Start

Use the unified download tool to fetch a Claude Code skill from GitHub, an archive, or a direct URL:

  • Install prerequisites: ensure Python 3.x and Git are installed.
  • Run: python download_skill.py <source> [skill-path] --output <target-dir>
  • Example: python download_skill.py https://github.com/anthropics/skills skills/docx --output ./.claude/skills/

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

git

Components

scripts

💻 Claude Code Installation

Recommended: Let Claude install automatically. Simply copy and paste the text below to Claude Code.

Please help me install this Skill:
Name: skill-downloader
Download link: https://github.com/nicepkg/chat2poster/archive/main.zip#skill-downloader

Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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