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Cody Skills
Version 2.1.0 · latest

Installation

Cody Product Builder is an Agent Skill. There are two ways to install it. Use whichever your AI coding environment supports.

Option 1: The .skill file

Use this option for Claude.ai (desktop or web) and any other app that installs skills from a file.

  1. Download cody-product-builder.skill from the GitHub repository, or grab it from the Get Skill menu in this site’s top bar.
  2. Upload the file in your app’s skill settings. In Claude.ai, this is done from your skills settings. For other apps, follow that app’s process for adding a .skill file.

Option 2: The skill folder

Use this option for coding agents that load skills from a folder, such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Codex.

  1. Clone or download the repository from github.com/ibuildwith-ai/cody-product-builder, or download the .zip from the Get Skill menu in this site’s top bar.
  2. Copy the source/cody-product-builder/ folder into your agent’s skills directory, keeping the folder name cody-product-builder:
AgentPath
Claude Code.claude/skills/cody-product-builder/
Cursor.cursor/skills/cody-product-builder/
GitHub Copilot.github/skills/cody-product-builder/

A skills directory inside a project makes Cody available for that project only. A skills directory in your home folder makes Cody available across all your projects. Check your agent’s documentation for the exact supported locations.

Activating

Once installed, Cody Product Builder activates two ways:

  • Automatically. Describe what you want in plain language (for example, “I want to build a product”, “help me plan a new app”, or “I need to add a new version”), and your agent invokes the skill.
  • Explicitly. Run the /cody-product-builder command.

After it activates, drive Cody with the :cody commands. See the Quick Start to ship your first version.

What gets created in your project

When you run :cody plan, Cody creates these files in your project:

cody.json                       # Project settings
release-notes.md                # Release notes (location configurable)


<project-path>/                 # Default: cody-projects/product-builder/
├── plan/                       # Planning phase documents
├── build/                      # Build phase documents
└── prototypes/                 # Throwaway prototypes

You can change the project path during setup. See Project Settings for the full cody.json reference.