Anytype Agents Skill — Development skill for Claude Code

anytype-agents-skill

A portable skill that lets AI coding agents script [Anytype](https://anytype.io) through the [`anytype-agent-runtime`](https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-agent-runtime) — creating objects, managing types/properties, and running full-text and semantic search.

The agent-facing instructions live in [`AGENTS.md`](./AGENTS.md) (`CLAUDE.md` is a symlink to it). The JS client lib is [`anytypeHelper.js`](./anytypeHelper.js), with its API documented in [`anytypeHelper.md`](./anytypeHelper.md).

Prerequisites

1. A running Anytype desktop app (the skill talks to its local API).
2. anytype-agent-runtime on your PATH:

   which anytype-agent-runtime

   If missing, see installation in `AGENTS.md`. But your agent should handle that.
3. An .env in the skill directory with your Anytype API token (see AGENTS.md). This also will be created by agent.

Installing the skill

Clone the repo and start your agent from inside it:

git clone https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-agents-skill
cd anytype-agents-skill
# then launch your agent here, e.g. `claude`, `codex`, etc.

The agent-facing instructions in `AGENTS.md` (and the `CLAUDE.md` symlink) are picked up automatically by Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Goose, OpenCode, OpenHands, GitHub Copilot, and other [Agent Skills](https://agentskills.io)-compatible agents when launched from the repo root.

Using it

Once installed, ask the agent what you want to do with Anytype — it'll load the skill on demand. Examples:

• "Search my Anytype space for notes about quarterly planning."
• "Create a new task object titled 'Review PR #42' with status in-progress."
• "List all properties on the book type."

The agent writes a JS script that imports `anytypeHelper` and runs it via `anytype-agent-runtime`. You can also run scripts yourself once agent runtime is installed on your system:

anytype-agent-runtime -m . your-script.js