Skills

Skills are reusable prompts packaged for easy discovery and use. The betterprompt skill commands let you search the marketplace, install skills locally, and keep them up to date.

Search

Find skills by keyword. betterprompt search is a shorthand alias for betterprompt skill search.

betterprompt search "seo blog"
betterprompt skill search "product photos" --type image
betterprompt skill search "sales email" --author alice

Flag	Description
--type <type>	Filter by output type: text, image, video.
--author <name>	Filter by author username.
--json	Machine-readable output.

Inspect

View full details about a skill before installing:

betterprompt skill info seo-blog-writer

Shows the skill description, expected inputs, sample outputs, and author.

Install

Install a skill to make it available for generation:

betterprompt skill install seo-blog-writer --project
betterprompt skill install product-shot-generator --global

Flag	Description
--project	Install to project-local scope.
--global	Install to global scope.
--overwrite	Replace existing installation.
--json	Machine-readable output.

Installed skills are saved to the skills/ directory (see Configuration for the directory layout).

List installed

betterprompt skill list
betterprompt skill list --project

Update

Update one skill or all installed skills:

betterprompt skill update seo-blog-writer
betterprompt skill update --all --project
betterprompt skill update seo-blog-writer --force

Flag	Description
--all	Update all installed skills in scope.
--force	Re-install even if already at latest version.

Uninstall

betterprompt skill uninstall seo-blog-writer
betterprompt skill uninstall product-shot-generator --global

End-to-end example

# 1. Find a skill
betterprompt search "linkedin carousel"

# 2. Inspect it
betterprompt skill info linkedin-carousel-writer

# 3. Install it
betterprompt skill install linkedin-carousel-writer --project

# 4. Generate output
betterprompt generate linkedin-carousel-writer \
  --input topic="remote work productivity"