---
boot: v1
name: promptboot skill
summary: Teaches this agent to install software from the promptboot registry and any vendor boot.md, with a mandatory read-before-run gate.
version: latest
platforms: [macos, linux, windows]
security:
  executesCode: false
  networkAccess: [promptboot.ai, raw.githubusercontent.com]
  writesOutsideTargetDir: true
  notes: Adds exactly one skill folder (a SKILL.md text file) to your agent's skills directory. Runs nothing, installs no software, changes nothing else.
verify: "Your agent lists a skill named 'promptboot' and responds to 'install <software>' by looking it up on promptboot.ai."
homepage: https://promptboot.ai
---

# Install the promptboot skill

## What this installs

This is a boot.md — a file that lets any AI agent install software from one
prompt (the standard is at https://promptboot.ai/standard). This particular
boot.md upgrades the agent reading it into a first-class promptboot client.

It adds **one skill folder containing one text file** to your agent's skills
directory — nothing else. The file comes from the public registry repo:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pkozanian/promptboot/main/skill/promptboot/SKILL.md

Once installed, saying "install slack" makes your agent look Slack up in the
reviewed registry at promptboot.ai, show you exactly what the install will do,
wait for your approval, run it, verify it, and walk you through sign-in.

You do not need this skill to use boot.md files — the universal prompt works
on any agent. The skill adds registry lookup, review-hash checking, and an
enforced approval gate.

## Requirements

- An agent that supports the Agent Skills convention (SKILL.md folders):
  Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and others.
- If you cannot determine where this agent loads skills from, say so and stop.

## Install

1. Identify which agent you are and where your skills directory is:
   - Claude Code: `~/.claude/skills/` (user-wide) or `.claude/skills/` in the
     current project. Ask the user which scope they want.
   - Other SKILL.md-compatible agents: use your documented skills location.
2. Report what you found: agent, target directory, and the one file you will
   create: `<skills-dir>/promptboot/SKILL.md`.
3. Wait for approval. The full change is: one new folder, one new text file,
   fetched from the URL above. Nothing is executed.
4. After approval, fetch the SKILL.md from the URL above and write it to
   `<skills-dir>/promptboot/SKILL.md`.

## Verify

Confirm the file exists and its front matter names the skill `promptboot`.
Tell the user the skill is active (some agents need a restart to pick up new
skills — say so if yours does).

## After install

Guide the user through these; never perform them yourself:

- Try it: say "install vlc" (or any software) and confirm the agent shows a
  summary and asks for approval before doing anything.
- Browse the reviewed examples at https://promptboot.ai/examples.
- Publishing software? Host your own boot.md — start from
  https://promptboot.ai/template.