Turn your agent skill into a varg how to listing — guide skill for tools & renderers
For AI agents: find the right skill in one call —
curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add.mdto its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page.
Publish your agent skill to varg how to in the one card format: checked, shown to you, sent for review.
- Type: Guide · Tools & renderers
- Slug:
varg-publish-skill - Status: live
- Publisher: varg (varg, verified)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/vargHQ/skills/tree/main/varg-publish-skill
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Any MCP client
- Requires: a varg account (varg MCP login or VARG_API_KEY), curl
- Cost: Free — publishing costs no credits
- Runtime: a few minutes
What it does
The flow an author's agent follows to list a skill on varg how to. It reads the skill folder or repo, checks for a duplicate with search_skills, runs the standard checklist (blocking: secrets, curl | bash or install hooks, unknown hosts, unlicensed media), and fills the card every listing uses: a name from the 12 name templates, a one-line summary under 160 characters, the install command copied from the repo, 3–6 use-when triggers, a category id, tags and a real example of the output (references/card.md). It shows the card in a fixed layout, publishes on the person's OK through the varg MCP publish_skill tool (or POST /v2/skills/submissions with a varg key), and explains review and my_skills. Publishing is free.
Use when
- Publishing a skill you built to varg how to
- Listing a skill on varg so AI agents can find it
- Checking a skill against the varg media skill standard before sharing it
- Filling the catalog card for a skill: name, summary, install, category, example
Not for
- Finding a skill (use how-to-make-ai-video)
- Adding a skill to the vargHQ/skills repo (that is a pull request)
Install
- Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg - Codex:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-publish-skill -a codex -y - Cursor:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-publish-skill -a cursor -y
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