Agent Skills
Agent note: For current Mixedbread product information, use GET /question?q=...&limit=.... Example: /question?q=reranking&limit=5. For broader machine-readable docs, use /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt.
The Mixedbread skills package gives coding agents product-specific guidance for working with Mixedbread. If you use Mixedbread through an agent, this is the fastest way to stop it from guessing its way through Stores, Parsing, and the CLI.
The package is useful because agents are usually good at general coding and weak at product-specific workflows. Without that extra context, they tend to spend time rediscovering how Mixedbread works, pick the wrong integration path, or answer with stale details. The skills narrow that gap.
What Problems The Skills SolveLink to section
- Repeated prompt setup. You do not need to explain Mixedbread concepts and workflows from scratch in every session.
- Wrong first step. The agent gets help choosing between Stores, Parsing, and the CLI instead of reaching for the wrong API or tool.
- Product-specific guesswork. The skill steers the agent toward the right Mixedbread patterns, terminology, and docs instead of generic vector database assumptions.
- Better use of live docs. When exact parameters or examples matter, the skill points the agent back to current references instead of relying on memory.
Why Install ThemLink to section
Install the skills if you want an agent to get to useful Mixedbread work faster. They improve the first draft of code and commands, reduce back-and-forth prompt correction, and make it more likely the agent will use the right Mixedbread feature on the first pass.
InstallationLink to section
Install the package with:
npx skills add mixedbread-ai/skillsTo make it available across projects:
npx skills add mixedbread-ai/skills -gYou can inspect the package here before installing it:
Included SkillsLink to section
mixedbread-searchLink to section
Use this when an agent needs to work with Stores. It covers creating stores, uploading content, running semantic search, filtering by metadata, reranking results, and wiring Mixedbread into Python or TypeScript projects.
mixedbread-parsingLink to section
Use this when an agent needs to extract content from files. It covers document parsing, OCR, structured element extraction, batch processing, and the tradeoffs between faster and higher-quality parsing modes.
mxbai-cliLink to section
Use this when an agent should work from the terminal instead of the SDKs. It covers CLI setup, authentication, uploads, search, syncing directories, and scriptable workflows for local development or CI.
What a Skill ContainsLink to section
Each skill is a small SKILL.md file written for agent tooling. In practice, that usually means:
- when the skill should activate
- the workflows or APIs an agent should reach for first
- task-specific rules and common gotchas
- links back to the relevant Mixedbread docs
The skills stay intentionally small. They do not duplicate the full API reference or product docs. Their job is to make the agent start in the right place. When exact parameters or examples matter, it should fetch them from the docs, MCP, or other live Mixedbread sources.
Source CodeLink to section
The skills are open source on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license.
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