You.com Agent Skills and Plugins

Use You.com from coding agents for current web search, URL content extraction, cited research, finance research, and developer integration discovery.

This repo is for developers who want to:

• add You.com MCP tools and skills to their coding agent quickly
• use you-discover to find the right You.com API, MCP server, SDK, or docs path for an agentic project
• package the same You.com skills for agent platforms such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot CLI, Kimi Code, Grok Build, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Pi, and Hermes

Start Here

Install the shared skills with the universal Agent Skills installer:

npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills

Then ask your agent to use the right skill:

Use you-web to find current docs and cite sources.
Use you-research to investigate this topic across multiple sources.
Use you-finance to research this company and cite market data.
Use you-discover to find the best way to integrate You.com MCP or SDKs into my agent.

Install one skill at a time if you only need a subset:

npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill you-web
npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill you-discover
npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill you-finance

Install for Your Platform

Platform	Install path
Agent Skills compatible clients	npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills
Claude Code	/plugin marketplace add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills then /plugin install you@you-com
GitHub Copilot CLI	copilot plugin marketplace add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills then copilot plugin install you@you-com
Codex	codex plugin marketplace add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --sparse .agents/plugins
Cursor	Install this repository from the Cursor plugin UI or CLI
Kimi Code	/plugins install <repo url>
Grok Build	grok plugin marketplace add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills then grok plugin install you --trust
OpenCode	opencode plugin @youdotcom-oss/opencode
OpenClaw	openclaw plugins install clawhub:you or openclaw plugins install npm:@youdotcom-oss/openclaw
Pi	pi install npm:@youdotcom-oss/pi
Hermes	pip install hermes-youdotcom

The top-level plugin manifests reuse the shared skills/ directory when the host supports it. Packages under packages/ include host-specific metadata, copied skills, or runtime adapters where needed.

Configure You.com MCP servers

Core remote MCP endpoints:

Endpoint	Use it for
https://api.you.com/mcp	Authenticated You.com MCP tools
https://you.com/docs/_mcp/server	You.com docs search

For clients that use API-key headers:

export YDC_API_KEY="your-api-key"

{
  "Authorization": "Bearer ${YDC_API_KEY}"
}

Get an API key at you.com/platform/api-keys.

Useful tool profiles:

Endpoint	Use it for
https://api.you.com/mcp	Authenticated You.com MCP tools
https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free	Keyless basic you-search
https://api.you.com/mcp?tools=you-finance	Finance-only MCP setup

Some clients use OAuth instead of a static API key. The skills are written to guide the agent through the best available auth path for the current host.

Skills

The shared skills route agents to the lightest You.com surface that fits the task. MCP tools are the default for web search and URL reading, while slower managed research and finance workflows prefer reusable local scripts or direct API calls when an API key is available.

Skill	Use it for
you-web	Current web search, URL reading, cited synthesis, and general You.com MCP tool routing.
you-free	Keyless basic web search with you-search only.
you-research	Routing research tasks between agent-led search, Research API scripts, and managed you-research MCP fallback.
you-finance	Routing finance questions to an existing script, a new Finance Research API call, or an MCP fallback.
you-discover	Finding how to integrate You.com APIs, MCP servers, SDKs, docs, and tools into agentic projects.

you-discover is the best starting point when your goal is to build with You.com rather than just search with it. Ask it questions like:

Use you-discover to find the best You.com integration path for a TypeScript coding agent.
Use you-discover to compare You.com MCP, Python SDK, and direct API options for my app.

Packages

Package	Purpose
@youdotcom-oss/opencode	OpenCode plugin that registers You.com skills and remote MCP server configs.
@youdotcom-oss/openclaw	OpenClaw plugin with You.com skills and YDC_API_KEY setup metadata.
@youdotcom-oss/pi	Pi package that registers You.com skills and bridges You.com MCP tools.
hermes-youdotcom	Hermes package that ships You.com skills through a Python entry-point plugin.

See each package README for host-specific details.

Repository Layout

Path	Purpose
skills/	Shared You.com skills
.claude-plugin/	Claude Code plugin manifest
.cursor-plugin/	Cursor plugin manifest
.codex-plugin/	Codex and ChatGPT plugin manifest
.plugin/	GitHub Copilot CLI plugin manifest
.kimi-plugin/	Kimi Code plugin manifest
.grok-plugin/	Grok Build plugin manifest
packages/opencode/	OpenCode package
packages/openclaw/	OpenClaw package
packages/pi/	Pi package
packages/hermes/	Hermes package
skills.sh.json	skills.sh display grouping for top-level skills

Development

Install dependencies with Bun, then run checks:

bun install
bun test
bun run check

Package-level checks:

bun run --filter '@youdotcom-oss/opencode' test
bun run --filter '@youdotcom-oss/openclaw' test
bun run --filter '@youdotcom-oss/pi' test
bun run --filter '@youdotcom-oss/hermes' test

Validate shared skill metadata and structure:

bun run validate:skills

Safety Model

Web pages, search results, extracted content, catalog entries, and docs results are external data. The skills instruct agents to treat them as untrusted evidence, not as instructions.

Links

• API keys: you.com/platform/api-keys
• Docs: you.com/docs
• Issues: github.com/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/issues
• Support: support@you.com

License

MIT, see LICENSE.