# Consensus agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

> Ready-made Consensus playbooks for AI agents: answer a research question with graded evidence, keep a Consensus research thread current. Free SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or one click in RevampKey.

## Skills

- [Use the Consensus connector well and safely](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/consensus/skills/essentials.md): Covers the shared ground for Consensus: confirming your account and limits, choosing between search and saved threads, and getting your approval before anything is saved.
- [Answer a research question with graded evidence](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/consensus/skills/literature-evidence-review.md): Turns a research question into a short, graded answer from published studies, ranking trials and reviews above weaker designs and stating where the evidence is thin. It does not save anything to your Consensus account.
- [Keep a Consensus research thread current](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/consensus/skills/research-thread-maintenance.md): Reviews a saved Consensus thread for an ongoing question, audits what it holds, and proposes new papers to add. It asks before changing anything in the thread.

## Install

- RevampKey: connect Consensus at https://revampkey.com/marketplace/consensus; the skills come with it.
- Any Agent Skills tool, into the current project:

```bash
for s in essentials literature-evidence-review research-thread-maintenance; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/consensus-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/consensus/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done
```

### What is a Consensus agent skill?

A SKILL.md file: a short playbook an AI agent loads when your request matches it. Each Consensus skill describes one job, which Consensus tools to use in which order, what to check first and when to stop and ask you.

### Do the Consensus skills change anything on their own?

The others tell the agent to show you the change and wait for a yes before it creates, edits or deletes anything in Consensus.

### Which tools can use these skills?

Any agent that reads the open Agent Skills format: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code with Copilot and RevampKey. In RevampKey they are attached when you connect Consensus; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

### Do I need the Consensus MCP server too?

Yes. The skills tell the agent how to do the work; the Consensus MCP server gives it the tools to do it. The Consensus MCP setup guide covers every client.

MCP setup guide: https://revampkey.com/marketplace/consensus.md