# apply

Installs the LaunchDarkly SDK into your project: adds the dependency, wires the key into the environment and drops init calls at the entrypoints. Step 3 of onboarding.

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- Author: launchdarkly
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- Source: https://github.com/launchdarkly/ai-tooling/tree/HEAD/skills/onboarding/sdk-install/apply/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
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## What it does

The skill runs an approved integration plan. It installs the SDK package by the exact name from the recipe, using your project's package manager, then confirms the dependency shows up in the manifest or lockfile. On a dual-SDK plan the steps repeat for both tracks: two packages, two credential lines, two inits in different entrypoints. If the plan lists one track but the user asked for both, the skill stops and sends you back to planning instead of inventing the second half.

SDK keys, client-side IDs and mobile keys never land in source files, only in environment variables. Before writing a secret the skill asks how you want it handled and waits: you name the path, set it up yourself, or let it write the value to a `.env`. Until you pick an option it will not fetch keys from LaunchDarkly or put real values in the repo.

Only the LaunchDarkly packages named in the recipe are in scope. Upgrading, downgrading or adding other packages, running `npm audit fix`, or touching `resolutions` and `workspaces` needs your explicit approval first. When peer conflicts appear, the skill halts and asks whether to fix the non-LD packages. Decline and you keep the SDK addition, but the conflict is yours to sort out. You need an integration plan and LaunchDarkly credentials before it runs.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add launchdarkly/ai-tooling --skill apply -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/apply/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/apply/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add launchdarkly/ai-tooling --skill apply -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/apply/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add launchdarkly/ai-tooling --skill apply -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/apply/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install launchdarkly/ai-tooling apply
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/apply/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add launchdarkly/ai-tooling --skill apply -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/launchdarkly/ai-tooling --path skills/onboarding/sdk-install/apply
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/apply/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add launchdarkly/ai-tooling --skill apply -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/launchdarkly/ai-tooling/tree/HEAD/skills/onboarding/sdk-install/apply/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- install the LaunchDarkly SDK and keep the lockfile in sync
- put the SDK key in the environment without hardcoding it
- set up two SDKs across separate entrypoints
- handle peer dependency conflicts during install
- get the integration to a state that compiles

## Example prompts
- apply the LaunchDarkly integration plan: install the SDK and add init
- put the SDK key in an environment variable, don't touch the source
- we have a dual-SDK plan — install both packages and add init in both entrypoints

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: apply
description: "Apply LaunchDarkly SDK onboarding: install dependency (or dual-SDK pair), configure env and secrets with consent, add init at entrypoint(s), verify compile. Nested under sdk-install; next is run."
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: Requires integration plan and LaunchDarkly credentials (see parent onboarding)
metadata:
  author: launchdarkly
  version: "0.2.0"
---

# Apply code changes (SDK install)

Execute the integration plan. Install the SDK(s) and add the minimal code needed to initialize **each** tracked surface.

This skill is nested under [LaunchDarkly SDK Install (onboarding)](../SKILL.md); the parent **Step 3** is **apply**. **Prior:** [Generate integration plan](../plan/SKILL.md). **Next:** [Start the application](../run/SKILL.md).

**Dual SDK:** If the approved plan is **dual SDK** ([plan: Dual SDK integrations](../plan/SKILL.md#dual-sdk-integrations)), you must complete Steps 1-3 **for both tracks** -- **two** packages in the manifest, **two** install commands run (or equivalent), **two** credential lines where needed, **two** inits in **different** entrypoints per recipe. **Do not** claim the second SDK is set up without performing its real install and init. If the plan only listed one track but the user asked for both, **stop** and return to [plan](../plan/SKILL.md) -- do not invent the second half from memory.

**Credential timing:** This is the first nested step where you ask the user for **SDK key / client-side ID / mobile key** (or consent to fetch/write them). Account status is not asked upfront -- it is inferred earlier via MCP OAuth when MCP is already configured or surfaced here at D7 (option 4) if the user has no account yet ([parent Prerequisites](../../SKILL.md#prerequisites)).

## Step 1: Install the SDK dependency

Use the **exact** package or module name and install command from the SDK row you already matched in [SDK recipes](../../references/sdk/recipes.md), with the project's package manager. Do not copy a generic install line from elsewhere -- each recipe names the right artifact.

**Dual SDK:** Run the **install command for Track A**, then the **install command for Track B** (from the plan). Confirm **both** package names appear in `package.json` / `requirements.txt` / lockfile (or the correct package manifest for each language). Skipping the second install is **not** optional when the plan says dual.
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