AgentFiles#

Use this skill for runtime-facing AgentFiles work:

• publish files or text as artifacts
• fetch artifact content or metadata
• search or list recent artifacts
• create share links
• verify the current principal with whoami
• run polling watch loops for sidecars or wrappers

Do not reimplement AgentFiles API calls inside the skill unless the user explicitly asks for a direct API path. This skill is a thin wrapper around the existing CLI.

Workflow#

1. Run AgentFiles commands directly: agentfiles <subcommand> ....
2. Pass argv directly. Never build shell strings around AgentFiles commands.
3. If a command needs auth or namespace context, start with agentfiles whoami or agentfiles config --show.
4. Prefer agentfiles setup for default onboarding. Use connect <runtime> only when the user wants a dedicated runtime credential.
5. For watch, remember that V1 is polling-only. Read references/runtime-notes.md when you need caveats or troubleshooting.

Common Patterns#

• Verify auth: agentfiles whoami
• Show config: agentfiles config --show
• Publish text: agentfiles publish --content "..." --title "..."
• Publish file: agentfiles publish ./path/to/file -n <namespace> --title <title>
• Fetch content: agentfiles get <artifact-id>
• Fetch metadata: agentfiles get <artifact-id> --meta
• Search: agentfiles search "<query>" -n <namespace>
• List: agentfiles list -n <namespace>
• Share: agentfiles share <artifact-id>
• Watch: agentfiles watch -n <namespace> --json

Handoff#

• Hand off with content: agentfiles handoff codex --content "Please review this patch"
• Pipe content: echo "review notes" | agentfiles handoff codex
• Thread a conversation: agentfiles handoff codex --content "..." --thread pr7-review
• Reply back: agentfiles handoff claude_code --reply-to-artifact-id <id> --content "Looks good"
• Hand off a file: agentfiles handoff codex ./review.md
• Search a thread: agentfiles search "pr7-review" -n <namespace>

Some runtimes may expose this as /handoff. Slash syntax is sugar, not a dependency.

Read references/commands.md for the command matrix. Read references/runtime-notes.md for auth, browser-based connect, polling caveats, and sandbox/network notes.

Behavior#

• Prefer an installed agentfiles binary on PATH.
• If it is unavailable, fall back to the published agentfiles-cli package through npm.
• Expect network approval when npm needs to download the published CLI package.
• Keep setup as the default onboarding path and connect as the advanced/manual path.
• Credentials should come from the browser-approved CLI flow and the local ~/.attach/config.json file.
• Do not ask the user to paste API keys into the skill or inline them in commands unless they explicitly choose the manual env-based path.
• Preserve CLI behavior. Do not reinterpret command output unless the user asks for a reformatted result.