# OpenSTAAD agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

> Ready-made OpenSTAAD playbooks for AI agents: review and summarise an open STAAD.Pro model, compare several open STAAD.Pro models in one check. Free SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or one click in RevampKey.

## Skills

- [Use the OpenSTAAD connector safely with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/openstaad-mcp-server/skills/essentials.md): Connects an AI agent to a running STAAD.Pro session on your own machine, confirms which model it is working on, and asks before changing anything.
- [Review and summarise an open STAAD.Pro model](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/openstaad-mcp-server/skills/model-review-and-summary.md): Produces a read-only report on one open STAAD.Pro model covering its structure, supports, sections, load cases and whether results look available. It changes nothing in the model.
- [Compare several open STAAD.Pro models in one check](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/openstaad-mcp-server/skills/multi-instance-batch-check.md): Runs the same read-only check across every open STAAD.Pro instance and lays the results side by side, so differences between models are easy to see. It asks before switching or changing anything.

## Install

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

```bash
for s in essentials model-review-and-summary multi-instance-batch-check; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/openstaad-mcp-server-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/openstaad-mcp-server/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done
```

### What is a OpenSTAAD agent skill?

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

### Do the OpenSTAAD 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 OpenSTAAD.

### 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 OpenSTAAD; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

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

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

MCP setup guide: https://revampkey.com/marketplace/openstaad-mcp-server.md