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A skill is a set of instructions a coding agent loads when a task matches it. The insta skill teaches terminal agents the platform workflow, so an agent that has it runs the right commands instead of guessing.

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The insta skill

What it teaches:
  • Check insta status before assuming login or project state
  • Work on a branch, not on main — create, switch, refresh secrets
  • Reach credentials through the seam (insta secrets, insta run, insta postgres url, bindings) instead of asking for them
  • Deploy with insta deploy and verify with insta compute logs / insta compute metrics

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Installing

Setup installs the skill user-globally into every agent directory the skills tool knows — Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Factory Droid, Goose, Aider, Continue, Roo, Kilo Code, Qwen, and the universal .agents directory among them.

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Project-level skills

insta project create and insta project link also install skills into the repo’s agent directories (.claude/skills/, .agents/skills/), so any agent working in that checkout picks them up: the insta skill plus a fixed set of stack skills for the platform’s storage and auth integrations (installed regardless of which services the project runs). These directories are gitignored — they don’t travel with a clone. On a teammate or CI machine, run insta project link <id> (or insta agent setup) once to install them there.

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Updating

Rerun setup:
Skills reinstall from the current published set each time; there is nothing to version-pin locally.