# kaggle

Connect Kaggle to your AI coder to research competitions, download datasets, submit solutions, and explore community writeups and discussions—all from within your development environment.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 565 installs · ★ 106
- Author: shepsci
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/shepsci/kaggle-skill/tree/HEAD/skills/kaggle/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-15
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/kaggle

## What it does

This skill gives your agent access to Kaggle through a single command: `python3 scripts/kaggle_skill.py`. You can inspect competition details and scoring rules, track submission deadlines and remaining attempts, download data files, submit predictions, review public solutions ranked by score, browse discussions and community insights, manage datasets and models, and execute notebooks on Kaggle's GPU servers.

Reading public content (competition pages, solutions, forums) requires no setup. To download, submit, or publish, you'll need the Python packages `kaggle>=2.2.4` and `kagglehub>=1.0.2`, plus a `KAGGLE_API_TOKEN` stored either as an environment variable or in `~/.kaggle/access_token` after running `kaggle auth login`. The skill communicates over HTTPS with `www.kaggle.com`, `api.kaggle.com`, and `storage.googleapis.com`.

The agent operates in read-only mode by default. Before submitting a solution, publishing a dataset, or starting a notebook, it shows you a dry run—what will happen, what it costs (submission slot, GPU hours), and visibility—then waits for your confirmation to proceed.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install shepsci/kaggle-skill kaggle
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/shepsci/kaggle-skill --path skills/kaggle
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- browse active competitions and check their prize pools and metrics
- download competition data or a public dataset
- validate and submit a solution file
- read top-ranked solution writeups from other competitors
- run a notebook on Kaggle's GPU cluster and monitor resource usage

## Example prompts
- Show me what competitions are running right now and their prizes
- Download and unzip the data for the titanic competition
- Check my submission balance and validate my predictions file

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: kaggle
description: "Unified Kaggle skill. Use when the user explicitly mentions Kaggle, kaggle.com, a Kaggle URL, Kaggle competitions, Kaggle datasets/models/notebooks, Kaggle forums/discussions/writeups, Kaggle benchmarks, hackathons hosted on Kaggle, Kaggle badges, or Kaggle account setup. Do not use for generic ML, GPU/TPU, notebook, dataset, benchmark, or data-science tasks unless the user clearly ties them to Kaggle."
license: MIT
compatibility: "Python 3.11+. Public reads need nothing else. Downloads, submissions, notebooks and publishing need the pip packages kaggle>=2.2.4 and kagglehub>=1.0.2. Optional: kaggle-benchmarks>=0.6 for writing benchmark tasks locally. Needs outbound HTTPS to www.kaggle.com, api.kaggle.com and storage.googleapis.com."
metadata:
  author: shepsci
  version: "3.0.1"
  openclaw:
    homepage: https://github.com/shepsci/kaggle-skill
    primaryEnv: KAGGLE_API_TOKEN
    requires:
      bins:
        - python3
    envVars:
      - name: KAGGLE_API_TOKEN
        required: false
        description: Kaggle API token. Optional when ~/.kaggle/access_token exists or after kaggle auth login; public reads need no credential.
allowed-tools: Read Grep Glob
---

# Kaggle

Kaggle for coding agents: competition research, running a competition
(status, submissions, scores), datasets, models, notebooks, discussions and
solution writeups, benchmarks, and badges.

This is an independent, unofficial project. It is not affiliated with,
endorsed by, or sponsored by Kaggle or Google.

Do not use this skill for generic machine learning, GPU, notebook, dataset,
model, benchmark, or data-science work unless the user ties the task to
Kaggle.

## Run a command

Everything is one command with a name:

```bash
python3 scripts/kaggle_skill.py <command> [arguments]
python3 scripts/kaggle_skill.py <command> --help
```

Paths in this file are relative to the skill folder, the one that holds this
`SKILL.md`. Run every command from the user's working directory as
`python3 <skill folder>/scripts/kaggle_skill.py <command>`, so that downloads
and records land in the user's project. Do not `cd` into the skill folder.

Output is short text by default. The read commands take `--json` for the
same content as JSON; `<command> --help` lists each command's options. A
long text (a page, a writeup) is cut with a note that says how to get the
rest, so there is no need to pipe a command through `head` or `cut`. A
competition is a slug (`titanic`) or its URL.

## Pick the command

| The user wants | Command |
|---|---|
| What a competition is: metric and how it is scored, deadline, prize, limits | `brief <competition> [<competition> ...]` |
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