Agent Skill
Convex Suggest skill
convex-suggestconvex/agent-skillsskills/convex-suggest/SKILL.md
Suggest the matching Convex component when the user hand-rolls a pattern it already solves (crons, sharded-counter, rate-limiter, storage, search, presence, workflow, RAG, prosemirror-sync). Passive — suggest after the task, never interrupt. Never install without consent.
always on
65 tokname + description
once used
491 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
0
repo stars
66GitHub
Install the Convex Suggest skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/convex/agent-skills --skill convex-suggest
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/convex/agent-skills.git /tmp/agent-skills mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/agent-skills/skills/convex-suggest ~/.claude/skills/convex-suggest
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 65 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 491 tok |
| Only if opened | No bundled files | — |
Until it is used, convex-suggest costs about 21× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 33 skills from convex/agent-skills would load 1,478 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
What's inside
The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.
- Proactively suggest the right Convex component
- Workflow
- Rules
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