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title: "The Obi Skill: your AI Search Employee inside your agent | Obi"
description: "The Obi Skill teaches your coding agent to work as Obi: what it does in the conversation, how to install it, and the agents that read it."
canonical: "https://hireobi.com/agent-skills"
human_url: "https://hireobi.com/agent-skills"
markdown_url: "https://hireobi.com/agent-skills.md"
updated: "2026-11-11"
---

# The Obi Skill

One Skill turns the agent you already use into your AI Search Employee.

## Install it

1. **Install the CLI:** Node.js 22 or later. `npm i -g @hireobi/cli`
2. **Register the Skill:** Links the Obi Skill into your agents' Skill folders. `obi skill install`
3. **Call Obi:** Open a new chat: /obi in Claude Code and Cursor, $obi in Codex. `/obi`

## What it does in the conversation

Obi introduces itself once as your AI Search Employee, then works in your chat.

- **Asks for the mission:** Which website to work on, the buyer if you know it, and whether it may read your public pages.
- **Researches your business:** Reads your site, reviews and your rivals' pages, then proposes your buyer with its sources.
- **Prepares buyer questions:** Shows you the mix of questions before any scan starts.
- **Reads measured answers:** Obi's servers ask the AI engines. Its own reasoning never counts as a measurement.
- **Ranks the next actions:** Saves its priorities, each with the evidence behind it.
- **Drafts the work:** Pages, comparisons, FAQs and fixes, for you to review.
- **Remembers:** What you ask it to remember, across agents and sessions. `obi memory list`

## What stays in your hands

- A draft is a suggestion until you accept it. The CLI cannot publish anything.
- Your secrets and the rest of your workspace stay on your machine.
- It asks for a private extract only when a task needs it, and only with your agreement.

## Where it lives

The Skill ships inside the CLI. obi skill install links it into ~/.agents/skills and ~/.claude/skills, and never replaces a file already there.

- **Find it:** Prints where the Skill is installed. `obi skill path`

## The agents that read it

The CLI's guide names Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. Obi was also tested in six other agents.

- **Claude Code:** `/obi`
- **Codex:** `$obi`
- **Cursor:** `/obi`

## Next actions

- Read every agent Obi works in: https://hireobi.com/agents (Markdown: https://hireobi.com/agents.md)
- Read the CLI page: https://hireobi.com/cli.md
- Open the product: https://agent.hireobi.com