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Overview

Orq Skills are pre-built, reusable workflows from the orq-ai/assistant-plugins repository. They come in two forms:
  • Skills: multi-step workflows that require reasoning, such as building an agent, running an experiment, or analyzing trace failures.
  • Commands: quick slash-command actions for immediate results, such as listing traces or showing analytics.
Both are built on the Agent Skills standard format, which means they work with any compatible assistant: Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and others. Each skill encodes best practices from prompt engineering, agent design, evaluation methodology, and experimentation into a repeatable, triggered workflow.

Prerequisites

Installation

Choose the option that matches the assistant used:
Use one path only. The Claude Code plugin install includes the MCP server. Running the Claude Code plugin path alongside any other path will install the MCP server twice. Commands (/orq:quickstart, /orq:workspace, and others) and agents are only available with the Claude Code plugin.

Verify

Claude Code: Run the interactive onboarding command to confirm everything is working:
Cursor, Gemini CLI, and others: Describe a task (e.g., “list my Orq.ai agents”) and confirm the skill responds correctly.

Commands

Quick-action slash commands available in Claude Code. Use /orq:<command> to trigger them.

Skills

Skills are triggered by describing what is needed. The assistant picks the right skill automatically. See Orq for coding agents for how Skills, the CLI, and MCP divide the work.

Example workflows

Instrument an existing app

Build a new agent

Debug production issues

Improve an existing agent

Improve an existing prompt

Red team and simulate a new agent

Evaluate an agent with custom scorers

Resources

orq-ai/assistant-plugins

Source repository for all skills, commands, and agents