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Overview

The Qontext CLI (qontext) brings your context repository to the command line. Today it installs and maintains workspace Skills on your local machine: install a skill once, then keep it in sync with a single command. Skills follow the open Agent Skills specification, so they work with any compatible AI tool.

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Install

If you’d rather not pipe a script into a shell:
  1. Download the archive for your platform from the Releases page.
  2. Verify it against SHA256SUMS-<version>.txt from the same release:
    • macOS / Linux: shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS-<version>.txt
    • Windows: Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 <archive>
  3. Extract and move qontext (or qontext.exe) onto your PATH.

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Authentication

Log in to connect the CLI to your workspace and approve the access request:
Qontext CLI authentication

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Managing skills

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Find a skill

Search the workspace’s skills:
Omit the term to list all skills within your access. Search matches the name, description, and folder path. Results show the skill’s location and whether it is already installed for the active profile. Invalid skills remain listed with the reason they failed their format check.If the CLI warns that results may be incomplete, a missing result does not prove the skill is absent.
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Install a skill

Pass the name from the search results:
Names need not be unique. If several skills share a name, the CLI lists their file IDs instead of choosing one. Run qontext skills add <fileId> to select the intended skill.A share link also works. To get one, open the Context tab in the Qontext app, select a skill, and click Install skill. Copy either the full install command or the short link.
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Keep skills up to date

Pull the latest version of every installed skill:
Please refer to Skills for how skills are created, imported, and distributed across a workspace.

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Updating the CLI

Keep the CLI current with a single command:
This replaces the installed binary in place with the latest release. The CLI also checks for updates in the background and warns you once a day when a newer version is available.

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Command reference

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FAQ

Any tool that supports the open Agent Skills specification, such as Claude Code. The CLI places skills in the client’s local skills folder.
Run qontext skills sync. Skills stay centrally managed in your workspace, so every installed copy updates from a single source of truth.