Overview
Orq Skills are pre-built, reusable workflows from the orq-ai/assistant-plugins repository. They come in two forms:- Skills: multi-step workflows that require reasoning, such as building an agent, running an experiment, or analyzing trace failures.
- Commands: quick slash-command actions for immediate results, such as listing traces or showing analytics.
Prerequisites
- An active Orq.ai account
- An API key
- The Orq MCP server connected to the assistant (see MCP Quickstart)
Installation
Choose the option that matches the assistant used:Use one path only. The Claude Code plugin install and
orq setup each include the MCP server and the skills, so running the two together installs both twice. Commands (/orq:quickstart, /orq:workspace, and others) and agents are only available with the Claude Code plugin.Verify
Claude Code: Run the interactive onboarding command to confirm everything is working:Commands
Quick-action slash commands available in Claude Code. Use/orq:<command> to trigger them.
Skills
Skills are triggered by describing what is needed. The assistant picks the right skill automatically.
See Orq for coding agents for how Skills, the CLI, and MCP divide the work.
Example workflows
Instrument an existing app
Build a new agent
Debug production issues
Improve an existing agent
Improve an existing prompt
Red team and simulate a new agent
Evaluate an agent with custom scorers
Resources
orq-ai/assistant-plugins
Source repository for all skills, commands, and agents