# copilotkit

A skill that sends your agent to the live CopilotKit documentation and source instead of letting it answer from memory.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 767 installs · ★ 38256
- Author: CopilotKit
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/CopilotKit/CopilotKit/tree/HEAD/skills/copilotkit/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/copilotkit

## What it does

CopilotKit covers the pieces you need to put an AI assistant inside an app: chat UI, tools on the client and the server, generative UI, shared state, human-in-the-loop. Reach for this skill whenever a question touches those areas, or when something in your setup misbehaves. Version 3.2.0, MIT licensed.

The skill deliberately carries almost no API detail. It tells the agent where the answer lives. Docs pages come back as Markdown when you append `.md` to a path, so `https://docs.copilotkit.ai/quickstart.md` returns `text/markdown`; a missing path gives a 404 with the body `Not found`. Start from `https://docs.copilotkit.ai/llms.txt` for a curated index, or `sitemap.xml` for every page. Library code is readable in `node_modules/@copilotkit/` or in the repo under `packages/`. There is a second route: the plugin declares an MCP server, `copilotkit-docs`, in `.mcp.json`, which adds semantic search across four corpora — the docs site, the library source, and the AG-UI protocol docs and SDK. AG-UI lives in a different repository, so the docs search will not surface it. If those tools are absent, the Markdown pages give the same content.

Before debugging, the skill says to run one wiring check. For an app with no Intelligence, that is `npx copilotkit@latest verify --expect-runtime oss --round-trip --agent <id> --json --via skill:copilotkit`; otherwise `npx copilotkit@latest verify --json --via skill:copilotkit`. The `--via` flag only tags the call for CopilotKit's telemetry.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add CopilotKit/CopilotKit --skill copilotkit -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add CopilotKit/CopilotKit --skill copilotkit -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add CopilotKit/CopilotKit --skill copilotkit -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install CopilotKit/CopilotKit copilotkit
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add CopilotKit/CopilotKit --skill copilotkit -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/CopilotKit/CopilotKit --path skills/copilotkit
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add CopilotKit/CopilotKit --skill copilotkit -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/CopilotKit/CopilotKit/tree/HEAD/skills/copilotkit/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- get the current CopilotKit API signature instead of a remembered one
- wire a chat UI into an app from the up-to-date quickstart
- find how a specific behaviour is implemented in the library source
- look up a code the app reported in `CopilotKitCoreErrorCode`
- check runtime and agent wiring with one command before debugging

## Example prompts
- How do I add the CopilotKit chat UI to my Next.js app? Pull the current quickstart.
- My generative UI is broken — search the docs for what I might have missed.
- Run `npx copilotkit@latest verify --json --via skill:copilotkit` and tell me what it returned.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: copilotkit
description: "Use for any CopilotKit question — adding it to an app, chat UI, frontend or server tools, generative UI, shared state, human-in-the-loop, agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, Mastra, ADK, PydanticAI, and others), the runtime, Intelligence, threads, voice, or diagnosing something that is not working. Do not answer from memory: this skill exists to point you at the current documentation and source, both of which you can read."
version: 3.2.0
---

# CopilotKit

CopilotKit's APIs move. Anything written down in a skill file is a copy that starts drifting
the day it is written, so this skill carries almost no API detail on purpose. It tells you
where the current answer lives and how to get it.

**Look it up before you write code.** Not because the docs are more convenient, but because
they are regenerated from the source and a recollection is not.

## Reading the docs

There are two ways to read the current docs. Check which one this session has.

### Without the MCP server: fetch the Markdown pages

This path always works. It needs only a way to fetch a URL.

- **Any docs page as Markdown.** Add `.md` to the page path:
  `https://docs.copilotkit.ai/<path>.md`. For example,
  `https://docs.copilotkit.ai/quickstart.md` and
  `https://docs.copilotkit.ai/backend/copilot-runtime.md`. The response is
  `text/markdown`. A path that does not exist returns 404 with the body `Not found`.
- **To find a path.** Start with `https://docs.copilotkit.ai/llms.txt`. It is a short,
  curated index with links to the main pages. For a page it does not list, read
  `https://docs.copilotkit.ai/sitemap.xml`, which lists every page URL. Both indexes list
  HTML page URLs. Add `.md` to a URL before you fetch it. The site root has no `.md` form.
  Do not fetch `llms-full.txt` in one read. It holds every page and is several megabytes.
- **Links in this skill.** A link such as [quickstart](/quickstart) is a docs path.
  Fetch it as `https://docs.copilotkit.ai/quickstart.md`.
- **Library source.** Read the installed package in `node_modules/@copilotkit/`, or the
  source at `https://github.com/CopilotKit/CopilotKit` under `packages/`.
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