Skills

The agent commands that drive Sunboard — and how they're installed for Claude Code, Codex, and opencode.

Skills are the first-party commands your AI coding agent uses to drive Sunboard. In practice you use just two: /sunboard.onboarding to set onboarding up or change it, and /sunboard.analyze to improve it from analytics. Each one plans the work with you, then runs the rest of the skills — spec, survey, segment, wiring, deploy — for you. You rarely run sunboard, or the other skills, directly.

The agent always works in the sandbox: it deploys and tests there, and ships to production only when you approve a promote.

How skills are installed

sunboard init installs the skills for whichever AI coding harnesses you select — pick one or several. Each harness has its own file format and location, so Sunboard writes the matching files for each:

HarnessInstalled toHow you invoke it
Claude Code.claude/commands/sunboard.<skill>.md/sunboard.<skill> slash command
opencode.opencode/commands/sunboard.<skill>.md/sunboard.<skill> slash command
Codex.agents/skills/sunboard-<skill>/SKILL.mdpicked up as an agent skill (sunboard-<skill>)

These files live in your repo, so they're versioned with your code and shared with your team — anyone who clones the project gets the same skills.

After upgrading the CLI

Run sunboard skills update to refresh the installed skill files for your harnesses to the latest version.

Start here

The two skills you actually invoke. Each one plans with you and drives the building blocks below.

Building blocks

The steps Onboarding and Analyze run on your behalf. You can invoke them directly when you want to do just one thing, but you usually won't need to.

Styling

Optional — Onboarding offers these at the end of its flow, or run them anytime.

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