What are AI coding skills?
Skills are instructions that AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, etc.) use to generate better, more accurate code. They describe when to use which APIs, how to structure requests, and what to avoid—so the assistant behaves like someone who already knows the Rise SDK. Rise ships optional skills for its SDK. If you add them to your project, your assistant gets Rise-specific guidance (payments, teams, webhooks, auth, and more). You don’t have to use them; if you do, you don’t need to read or edit any skill files—your tool loads them automatically. For the general format and how skills work across tools, see the Agent Skills specification and Agent Skills documentation.Choose your agent
Skills work with these agents. When you add skills, you’ll pass the one you use:
If you use a different AI coding tool, you can still add skills manually (see below).
How to add skills
From your project root (with@riseworks/riseworks-sdk installed), run:
node_modules/@riseworks/riseworks-sdk/ai-skills/ into your tool’s skills (or rules) folder, then restart the tool.
Available skills
Suggested approach: Add
rise-sdk-integration first. Add the others only if you’re actively working in those areas (e.g. rise-v1-migration when migrating from V1).