Agent Skills

Agent Skills give an AI coding assistant CE.SDK context locally. Install a skills pack, and the assistant has CE.SDK documentation, framework patterns, and project scaffolding available offline through slash commands. No external service needs to be running at the moment the assistant generates code.

This is one of two ways CE.SDK puts itself in front of an AI coding assistant. The other is the CE.SDK MCP Server, which connects the assistant to IMG.LY’s documentation through a live network connection. The choice between them is about freshness versus availability.

Agent Skills bundle CE.SDK documentation locally. They work offline and do not require any external service during a coding session. The trade-off: they need to be updated when a new CE.SDK version is released.

CE.SDK MCP Server keeps the assistant connected to IMG.LY’s documentation in real time over the network. It always reflects the latest content, but it requires connectivity and a running MCP server.

Pick Agent Skills when offline availability matters or you want zero runtime dependencies. Pick the MCP Server when you want the assistant to always have the most current documentation.

A Skills pack bundles three kinds of capability.

• Documentation Skills. Complete CE.SDK guides and API references for a specific framework (React, Vue, Next.js, SvelteKit, Angular, and others), compressed into a local index. When invoked, the skill loads the relevant documentation into the assistant’s context for accurate, framework-specific answers and code generation.
• Build and Explain Skills. Guided workflows that walk an AI assistant through CE.SDK implementation tasks step by step, such as adding text overlays, creating a photo editor with filters, or setting up export pipelines.
• Builder Agent. An autonomous agent that scaffolds complete CE.SDK web applications from scratch. It detects the active framework, applies the appropriate Starter Kit template, and implements requested features end-to-end without manual intervention.

Once installed, skills are triggered via slash commands in the AI coding assistant. Documentation skills are invoked by specifying the framework and topic; build and explain skills are invoked with a plain-language description of the task. The assistant reads from the locally installed skill files rather than querying any external service.

The skills are compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding assistants that support the skills or plugin format. Install paths:

• The CE.SDK Agent Skills marketplace plugin
• The Vercel Skills CLI: npx skills add imgly/agent-skills
• Manually copying skill folders from the imgly/agent-skills GitHub repository into the project

The full list of skills and what each one covers is on the Agent Skills docs page.