Get Skills

Load and merge skills from all configured sources.

Skills are loaded from multiple sources and merged with the following precedence (later overrides earlier for duplicate names):

1. Sandbox skills (lowest) - Exposed URLs from sandbox
2. Public skills - From GitHub OpenHands/skills repository
3. User skills - From ~/.openhands/skills/
4. Organization skills - From /.openhands or equivalent
5. Project skills (highest) - From /.openhands/skills/

Args: request: SkillsRequest containing configuration for which sources to load.

Returns: SkillsResponse containing merged skills and source counts.

POST /api/skills

Get Skills

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.example.com/api/skills \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "load_public": true,
  "load_user": true,
  "load_project": true,
  "load_org": true,
  "project_dir": "<string>",
  "org_config": {
    "repository": "<string>",
    "provider": "<string>",
    "org_repo_url": "<string>",
    "org_name": "<string>"
  },
  "sandbox_config": {
    "exposed_urls": [
      {
        "name": "<string>",
        "url": "<string>",
        "port": 123
      }
    ]
  }
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.example.com/api/skills"

payload = {
    "load_public": True,
    "load_user": True,
    "load_project": True,
    "load_org": True,
    "project_dir": "<string>",
    "org_config": {
        "repository": "<string>",
        "provider": "<string>",
        "org_repo_url": "<string>",
        "org_name": "<string>"
    },
    "sandbox_config": { "exposed_urls": [
            {
                "name": "<string>",
                "url": "<string>",
                "port": 123
            }
        ] }
}
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    load_public: true,
    load_user: true,
    load_project: true,
    load_org: true,
    project_dir: '<string>',
    org_config: {
      repository: '<string>',
      provider: '<string>',
      org_repo_url: '<string>',
      org_name: '<string>'
    },
    sandbox_config: {exposed_urls: [{name: '<string>', url: '<string>', port: 123}]}
  })
};

fetch('https://api.example.com/api/skills', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.example.com/api/skills",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'load_public' => true,
    'load_user' => true,
    'load_project' => true,
    'load_org' => true,
    'project_dir' => '<string>',
    'org_config' => [
        'repository' => '<string>',
        'provider' => '<string>',
        'org_repo_url' => '<string>',
        'org_name' => '<string>'
    ],
    'sandbox_config' => [
        'exposed_urls' => [
                [
                                'name' => '<string>',
                                'url' => '<string>',
                                'port' => 123
                ]
        ]
    ]
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.example.com/api/skills"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"load_public\": true,\n  \"load_user\": true,\n  \"load_project\": true,\n  \"load_org\": true,\n  \"project_dir\": \"<string>\",\n  \"org_config\": {\n    \"repository\": \"<string>\",\n    \"provider\": \"<string>\",\n    \"org_repo_url\": \"<string>\",\n    \"org_name\": \"<string>\"\n  },\n  \"sandbox_config\": {\n    \"exposed_urls\": [\n      {\n        \"name\": \"<string>\",\n        \"url\": \"<string>\",\n        \"port\": 123\n      }\n    ]\n  }\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.example.com/api/skills")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"load_public\": true,\n  \"load_user\": true,\n  \"load_project\": true,\n  \"load_org\": true,\n  \"project_dir\": \"<string>\",\n  \"org_config\": {\n    \"repository\": \"<string>\",\n    \"provider\": \"<string>\",\n    \"org_repo_url\": \"<string>\",\n    \"org_name\": \"<string>\"\n  },\n  \"sandbox_config\": {\n    \"exposed_urls\": [\n      {\n        \"name\": \"<string>\",\n        \"url\": \"<string>\",\n        \"port\": 123\n      }\n    ]\n  }\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.example.com/api/skills")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"load_public\": true,\n  \"load_user\": true,\n  \"load_project\": true,\n  \"load_org\": true,\n  \"project_dir\": \"<string>\",\n  \"org_config\": {\n    \"repository\": \"<string>\",\n    \"provider\": \"<string>\",\n    \"org_repo_url\": \"<string>\",\n    \"org_name\": \"<string>\"\n  },\n  \"sandbox_config\": {\n    \"exposed_urls\": [\n      {\n        \"name\": \"<string>\",\n        \"url\": \"<string>\",\n        \"port\": 123\n      }\n    ]\n  }\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "<string>",
      "content": "<string>",
      "triggers": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "source": "<string>",
      "description": "<string>",
      "is_agentskills_format": false
    }
  ],
  "sources": {}
}

{
  "detail": [
    {
      "loc": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "msg": "<string>",
      "type": "<string>"
    }
  ]
}

Body

application/json

Request body for loading skills.

load_public · boolean · default: true

Load public skills from OpenHands/skills repo

load_user · boolean · default: true

Load user skills from ~/.openhands/skills/

load_project · boolean · default: true

Load project skills from workspace

load_org · boolean · default: true

Load organization-level skills

project_dir · string | null

Workspace directory path for project skills

org_config · OrgConfig · object | null

Organization skills configuration

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sandbox_config · SandboxConfig · object | null

Sandbox skills configuration

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Response

200

application/json

Successful Response

Response containing all available skills.

skills · SkillInfo · object[] · required

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sources · Sources · object

Count of skills loaded from each source

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