# cargo-project

Declares a full Cargo workspace in TypeScript and reconciles it using the CLI. Useful for tracking agents, connectors, and models in Git.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 3000 installs · ★ 20
- Author: getcargo
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/getcargohq/cargo-skills/tree/HEAD/cargo-project/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
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## What it does

This skill brings an infrastructure-as-code workflow to Cargo. You define connectors, agents, data models, and MCP servers in TypeScript using `define*` builders from `@cargo-ai/cdk`. The CLI reconciles your code graph with live infrastructure through `cargo-ai project deploy` and tracks resources in `cargo.state.json`.

The graph links resources through variable handles. Because every `cargo-ai project` command walks up the directory tree to find `cargo.json`, each project lives in its own folder. A built-in workspace guard stops deployments immediately if the state file points to a different tenant than your active login.

You need `@cargo-ai/cli` installed and an authenticated account via `cargo-ai login`. For one-off resource inspection or ad-hoc data queries, this skill is the wrong choice; capability CLI commands handle those better.

## Requirements
- Works with: Terraform

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add getcargohq/cargo-skills --skill cargo-project -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add getcargohq/cargo-skills --skill cargo-project -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add getcargohq/cargo-skills --skill cargo-project -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install getcargohq/cargo-skills cargo-project
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add getcargohq/cargo-skills --skill cargo-project -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/getcargohq/cargo-skills --path cargo-project
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add getcargohq/cargo-skills --skill cargo-project -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/getcargohq/cargo-skills/tree/HEAD/cargo-project/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- declare Cargo workspace resources in TypeScript
- deploy an agent and connector graph using Git
- reconcile remote infrastructure against `cargo.state.json`
- separate staging and production workspace deployments

## Example prompts
- Initialize a new Cargo project with cargo.json
- Declare our scoring agents and connectors in TypeScript
- Run a diff plan before deploying the project to production

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: cargo-project
description: "Declare a whole Cargo workspace in a project, GTM as Code — connectors, models, plays, tools, agents, MCP servers, segments, context, folders, files, workers, and apps in TypeScript, reconciled with `cargo-ai project` (init → types → plan → deploy), the way you would run Pulumi or Terraform. Triggers: \"as code\", \"in git\", \"version-controlled\", \"reproducible\", \"Terraform for Cargo\", \"set up a whole workspace\", \"staging and production\", \"deploy the workspace from CI\", \"review this in a PR\", \"cargo.json\", \"cargo.state.json\", \"scaffold from a template\", \"is there a cookbook for this\", \"start from a cookbook\". Skills with a worked project example (TAM building, account scoring, call capture, inbound qualification, CRM enrichment, standup) live in gtm-skills; menu in references/cookbooks.md. Skip when: it is a one-off operation, a read, or an ad-hoc query — use the matching capability skill."
version: "4.3.1"
compatibility: Requires @cargo-ai/cli (npm). Sign in or create an account with `cargo-ai login --email` (emailed code, no browser), `--oauth`, or an API token
homepage: https://github.com/getcargohq/cargo-skills
metadata:
  author: getcargo
  openclaw:
    requires:
      bins:
        - cargo-ai
    install:
      - kind: node
        package: "@cargo-ai/cli@latest"
        bins:
          - cargo-ai
    homepage: https://github.com/getcargohq/cargo-skills
---

# Cargo project — a Cargo workspace, declared in a repo

Use this skill to define a Cargo workspace in TypeScript (`define*` builders from
`@cargo-ai/cdk`) and reconcile it to live infrastructure with `cargo-ai project deploy`.
It is the **declarative** counterpart to the imperative capability skills: instead
of running one CLI command per resource, you write the whole graph once and deploy
it repeatably, with a **deploy state** — held in your workspace, pointed at by a
committed `cargo.state.json` — linking your code to what Cargo created. A **project**
is the folder holding `cargo.json` (`{ "resources": "infra" }`): every
`cargo-ai project` command finds the nearest one above where it runs, and stops
without one.

> **"Project" and "workspace" are two different things — keep them apart.** A
> **workspace** is the Cargo tenant you sign into: it holds the models, connectors,
> agents, mailboxes and credits, and it is what `login --workspace-name` selects and
> what `whoami` reports. A **project** is the folder holding `cargo.json` that
> declares resources and deploys them into a workspace: it is what `project init`
> scaffolds, where `cargo.state.json` sits, and what every command finds by walking up
> to the nearest `cargo.json`. A repo can hold several, one `cargo.json` each. One project deploys into
> one workspace at a time — the workspace guard refuses a deploy when the state's
> workspace isn't the selected one — and the same project reaches a dev and a prod
```
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