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Rigs skill

rigsmvschwarz/openrigpackages/daemon/assets/skills/rigs/SKILL.md

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.

8.1kApache-2.0

always on

128 tokname + description

once used

4,416 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

0

repo stars

8.1kGitHub

Install the Rigs skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig --skill rigs

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig.git /tmp/openrig
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/openrig/packages/daemon/assets/skills/rigs ~/.claude/skills/rigs

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.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description128 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions4,416 tok
Only if openedNo bundled files—

Until it is used, rigs costs about 11× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 94 skills from mvschwarz/openrig would load 6,757 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.

  • rigs: your route into OpenRig
  • 1. Install OpenRig, if it isn't installed
  • 2. Open OpenRig and give its operator the goal
  • Codex: one offer, once, after OpenRig starts
  • 3. Follow the work to its result
  • 4. Find out more

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  4. agent-startersmvschwarz/openrig

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  6. Use before launching a team during agent-guided setup, or when a user asks to configure OpenRig command permissions, reduce repeated native approval prompts, or apply a selected rig/seat permission policy.

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