# O’Reilly agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

> Ready-made O’Reilly playbooks for AI agents. Free SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or one click in RevampKey.

## Skills

- [Search O'Reilly content with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/oreilly/skills/essentials.md): Finds O'Reilly books, videos and courses for your topic using focused searches, and tells you when the signed-in account cannot see a title. The connector is read-only and changes nothing in your account.

## Install

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

```bash
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/oreilly-essentials/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/oreilly/skills/essentials/SKILL.md
```

### What is a O’Reilly agent skill?

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

### Do the O’Reilly skills change anything on their own?

1 of the 1 only read. The others tell the agent to show you the change and wait for a yes before it creates, edits or deletes anything in O’Reilly.

### 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 O’Reilly; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

### Do I need the O’Reilly MCP server too?

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

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