# rigs

Set up OpenRig and hand a coding task to its agent team. The skill is for projects where you want Claude Code and Codex agents working side by side.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 8227
- Author: mvschwarz
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig/tree/HEAD/skills/rigs/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/rigs

## What it does

OpenRig runs coding agents together in `tmux`. A local daemon keeps the team’s tasks, messages, and state across restarts. The skill guides setup, starts OpenRig, and hands the project goal to its operator.

OpenRig requires macOS or Linux, Node.js 22 or 24, `tmux`, and an active Claude Code or Codex login. Install the CLI with `npm install -g @openrig/cli`, then run `rig setup --providers codex`, `claude`, or `both`, followed by `rig doctor`. Setup may install `tmux` or the selected harness and add a block to `~/.tmux.conf`, so get approval before making those changes.

Starting the team also needs approval: it launches OpenRig’s team and writes configuration files. Its operational defaults grant broad file and command access, so the skill is expected to explain those permissions before OpenRig starts.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mvschwarz/openrig --skill rigs -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mvschwarz/openrig --skill rigs -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mvschwarz/openrig --skill rigs -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mvschwarz/openrig rigs
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mvschwarz/openrig --skill rigs -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig --path skills/rigs
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mvschwarz/openrig --skill rigs -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/mvschwarz/openrig/tree/HEAD/skills/rigs/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- install OpenRig and check its setup
- prepare a coding-agent team for a project
- hand a development goal to the OpenRig operator
- reopen the OpenRig interface after a restart

## Example prompts
- Install OpenRig for Codex and prepare a team for this project.
- Start OpenRig and ask its operator to add authentication.
- Open the interface for my OpenRig team.

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---
name: rigs
description: Use when a person in their own Claude Code or Codex session mentions OpenRig, rigs or the rig command, or wants a team of coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) on their project. That includes installing, setting up, starting or updating OpenRig, seeing, getting back to or re-attaching to their OpenRig agents (including bringing a stopped team back), TUI or operator, starting or sharing a team, and joining this session to one. Operating a running rig from inside it (fleet recovery, seat handover, watchdog wakes, in-rig upgrades) is the openrig-skills skill.
---

# rigs: your route into OpenRig

OpenRig runs a team of coding agents (Claude Code, Codex and others) side by side in tmux. A local daemon keeps their
tasks, messages and state, so the team keeps working across restarts. This skill gets OpenRig installed, gets a team
working on what the person wants, and shows how to work with that team from here.

**The goal is a team doing the person's work, not just an install.** Go through the steps in order and stop early only
if the person asks you to. When they say what they want built, give it to OpenRig's operator (step 2) instead of
building it yourself.

Tell the person what you're about to run and why before you run it. Don't install system packages or change their
machine without a yes, and don't start a team, including `rig up`, without their yes to what it will start; a yes they
already gave for that same launch counts, so don't ask twice. Starting OpenRig and a team writes files: Codex hooks and settings in
`~/.codex/config.toml`, Claude Code workspace trust in `~/.claude.json`, discovery skills in `~/.claude/skills` and
`~/.agents/skills`, and, in the repository, managed guidance in `AGENTS.md` or `CLAUDE.md`, activity hooks in
`.claude/settings.local.json` and a status line there unless the project already has its own, plus the team's skills
and plugins. Unless a permission policy, a per-seat choice or (for Codex) a named profile applies, the kernel's own
seats run with an operational default: Codex with `-s danger-full-access -a never`, and Claude Code with its file
tools, web fetches and operational commands, including reads under the home folder, allowed without asking. Say so
before you start OpenRig ([the full list](https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig#what-openrig-changes-on-your-machine)).

When you give the person a file or a command to run in their own terminal, use a path that exists on their side. A
file a sandboxed agent writes under `/tmp` may not exist in the person's terminal (seen with Codex), so put files the
person needs in their project or home folder and name that path.

## 1. Install OpenRig, if it isn't installed

- **Check first:** `rig --version`. If it prints a version, go to step 2.
- **What it needs:** macOS or Linux, Node.js 22 or 24, tmux, and Claude Code or Codex signed in. Check only what's
  missing: `node --version`, `tmux -V`, `claude auth status` or `codex login status`.
- **A check that needs the network** (`gh auth status`, a registry or other fetch) can fail falsely in a sandbox without
  network access, such as Codex's default one. Re-run that one command with network access before you tell the person
  to sign in again or fix anything.
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