skills

List and install DAC agent skills into a project.

Agent skills are local instructions that help coding agents create and modify DAC dashboards correctly. DAC currently ships a bundled create-dashboard skill for dashboard authoring.

dac init installs bundled skills automatically for new projects. Use dac skills install for existing projects, or dac skills update to refresh installed skills to the version bundled with your current dac binary.

List Skills

dac skills list

This prints the bundled skills and their install targets.

Install Skills

dac skills install --dir .

By default, this installs every bundled DAC skill into the target project:

.claude/skills/create-dashboard/SKILL.md
.codex/skills/create-dashboard -> ../../.claude/skills/create-dashboard

Claude gets the real skill file. Codex gets a symlink to the same skill directory so both agents use one shared copy.

Install a specific skill:

dac skills install create-dashboard --dir .

Overwrite an existing customized skill:

dac skills install create-dashboard --dir . --force

Restart your agent session after installing skills so the agent can discover the new local instructions.

Update Skills

Each bundled skill carries a version. When you upgrade dac, the binary may ship a newer skill than the copy already installed in your project. dac serve and dac validate print a one-line notice when a newer skill is available:

A newer create-dashboard skill is available with the latest authoring features and fixes.
Run `dac skills update` to update your project's copy.

The notice never modifies files on its own — updating is always an explicit action. Refresh installed skills to the bundled version:

dac skills update --dir .

Update a specific skill:

dac skills update create-dashboard --dir .

update overwrites the installed skill files (equivalent to install --force), so any local customizations are replaced.

Flags

Flag	Alias	Description
--dir	-d	Target project directory
--force	-f	Overwrite existing skill files (install only; update always overwrites)

Notes

• Installing skills does not change dashboard behavior at runtime.
• Skills are optional; they improve agent authoring and review workflows.
• Existing files are not overwritten unless --force is provided.