Sharing a library across a team

Author skills once, publish them as a library, and let every project and teammate consume them by reference. Read Libraries first for the package-manager model.

1. Create the library repo

Initialize a repo in library layout so its skills sit at <root>/skills/, directly consumable:

mkdir team-skills && cd team-skills
git init
adept init --as-library

Add published skills:

adept skill add house-style --publish --edit
adept skill add pr-review   --publish --edit

Commit and push:

git add . && git commit -m "feat: initial team skills"
git remote add origin git@github.com:acme/skills.git
git push -u origin main

2. Consume it in a project

In any project that should use these skills:

cd ../webapp
adept library add team-skills --from git@github.com:acme/skills.git --ref main
adept harness add claude-code
adept sync

adept clones the library into the per-machine store (~/.adeptability/libs/team-skills/) and records a reference — not the bytes — in .adeptability/config.json. Commit that config:

git add .adeptability/config.json && git commit -m "chore: add team-skills library"

3. Teammates onboard automatically

A teammate cloning webapp gets the reference but not the skill content (it was never committed). They resolve it into their own store and materialize:

git clone git@github.com:acme/webapp.git && cd webapp
adept status                                   # shows the library as "no (run `adept library add`…)"
adept library add team-skills --from git@github.com:acme/skills.git
adept sync                                      # materialize into their harnesses

See Libraries → Teammate onboarding flow for the full picture.

4. Ship updates

When you push new skills to the library repo, consumers pull them on demand:

adept status --fetch          # refresh remote tracking refs, show what's updatable
adept library update          # fetch + apply (prompts first)
adept library update --yes    # non-interactive
adept sync                     # re-materialize into harnesses

Precedence rules

• Project canonical shadows the library — a project skill with the same id wins, so a project can override a shared skill locally.
• First-wins across libraries — stack multiple library add calls; on an id collision the first-added library wins.
• Confirm the resolved set anytime with adept skill list.