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Agent Skill

Without a shared workflow, a coding agent must rediscover how each project distributes jobs, records progress, retries failures, and collects results. Labtasker's labtasker skill supplies those operating rules, so a request such as “run these cases in parallel across 8 GPUs with Labtasker” is enough to start the standard Labtasker workflow.

The skill covers v2 Task submission, Worker design, routing, inspection, updates, recovery, and adapting an existing experiment pipeline. During a migration it asks about the project's entry points, reusable setup, retry units, resources, dependencies, and outputs, then owns the mapping into Labtasker instead of requiring a newcomer to design Tasks, Workers, routes, or Queues. It does not choose the experiment, allocate GPUs, or keep the agent inside the execution loop. Its short SKILL.md routes deployment, Worker, and recovery questions to three bundled references; the official installable package is skills/labtasker/.

LLM-readable documentation

The Agent Skill teaches an agent how to operate Labtasker. A built documentation site exposes llms.txt to help an agent find the right supporting material. It links directly to the raw Markdown for the main guides, API references, and full specification. The llms.txt source can also be read directly.

Claude Code marketplace

Add the repository as a marketplace, then install its plugin:

/plugin marketplace add luocfprime/labtasker
/plugin install labtasker-skill@labtasker

The installed skill is invoked as /labtasker-skill:labtasker. Claude Code can also select it automatically when a request matches its description.

Agent Skills CLI

The open Agent Skills installer supports Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, and other compatible agents:

npx skills add \
  https://github.com/luocfprime/labtasker/tree/main/skills/labtasker

The direct skill path keeps contributor-only repository workflows out of the installation. The installer prompts for target agents and project or global scope. For a non-interactive Codex installation, for example:

npx skills add \
  https://github.com/luocfprime/labtasker/tree/main/skills/labtasker \
  --agent codex --global --yes

Use --agent claude-code instead to install through the same open skill format without using the Claude Code marketplace.

Repository checkouts

This repository exposes the same skill content at .agents/skills/labtasker for repository-aware agents. It is a relative symlink, so every discovery method reads the same files.

The agent skill describes the public Labtasker product. Contributor-only workflows such as releases and cross-surface contract changes remain separate under .agents/skills/ and are documented in Development.