Skills via the Oz CLI

Caution

The Oz CLI (the oz binary) is a supported legacy interface. Existing users do not need to change their workflows. For new multi-stage development workflows, use Warp Factories. Warp will publish guidance before any support change.

Skills are reusable instruction sets that teach agents how to perform specific tasks. Use the --skill flag to run an agent from a skill in a repository accessible to your environment.

Skill spec format

The --skill flag accepts a skill specification that identifies which skill to use:

# Fully qualified (recommended)
oz agent run-cloud -e <ENV_ID> --skill "owner/repo:skill-name" --prompt "deploy to staging"

# With full path
oz agent run-cloud -e <ENV_ID> --skill "warpdotdev/warp-server:.warp/skills/deploy/SKILL.md" --prompt "deploy to staging"

Supported formats:

• owner/repo:skill-name — skill by name in a specific repository (recommended)
• owner/repo:path/to/SKILL.md — skill by full path in a repository
• repo:skill-name — skill by name (only works when the repo is configured in your environment)

Using skills with cloud agents

Skills are particularly useful with cloud agents (oz agent run-cloud) because they define reusable workflows that run consistently across environments:

# Run a deploy skill from a specific repo
oz agent run-cloud \
  --environment SVhg783GBFQHk1OfdPfFU9 \
  --skill "myorg/backend:.warp/skills/deploy/SKILL.md" \
  --prompt "deploy to staging"

# Run a code review skill
oz agent run-cloud \
  --environment SVhg783GBFQHk1OfdPfFU9 \
  --skill "myorg/backend:code-review" \
  --prompt "review the latest PR"

Note

When you specify a skill, it provides the base instructions for the agent. The --prompt adds additional context or parameters for that specific run.

When you run an agent from a skill, the run name is automatically set to the skill name — no need to pass --name explicitly.

Using skills with local agents

For local agent runs, skills from your current repository are automatically discovered. You can also explicitly specify a skill:

oz agent run --skill "owner/repo:skill-name" --prompt "additional context"

For more information about creating and managing skills, see Skills.