Craftdesk

CraftDesk CLI

**Dependency management for AI capabilities** - Install, manage, and version control your Claude Code skills, agents, commands, hooks, and plugins.

The command-line interface for managing your Coding AI capabilities. Similar to npm for JavaScript or bundler for Ruby, CraftDesk CLI provides a complete package management solution for AI-powered development tools.

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What is CraftDesk?

CraftDesk is a package manager for AI capabilities used in Claude Code and other AI development environments. It allows you to:

• Install AI skills, agents, commands, hooks, plugins, and collections from git repositories or registries
• Collections - Curate and share groups of related crafts that work together
• Plugin system - Bundle multiple crafts with automatic dependency resolution
• Multi-agent sync - Share skills across multiple AI assistants (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.)
• Lock versions for reproducible environments across teams
• Manage dependencies with automatic recursive installation
• Support monorepos with subdirectory extraction
• Auto-convert GitHub URLs - paste any GitHub URL (tree/blob)
• Direct file references - install single files from repositories
• Settings integration - Automatic registration in .claude/settings.json
• MCP server support - Configure Model Context Protocol servers via plugins

Think of it as:

• npm for Node.js → CraftDesk for AI capabilities
• Bundler for Ruby → CraftDesk for Claude tools
• Cargo for Rust → CraftDesk for AI agents

**Note:** A self-hosted registry server is currently under develop