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UiPath CLI user guide
uip skills installs, updates, and removes UiPath skills for supported AI coding agents. Skills are curated prompt packs that teach an agent how to use UiPath's CLI tools to build automations, agents, flows, and orchestrations. See Skills for the concept, install model, and the agent-by-agent install locations.
This page documents the commands. For what skills are and why to install them, read the concept page first.
Synopsis
uip skills install [--agent <agent>] [--local]
uip skills update [--agent <agent>] [--local]
uip skills uninstall [--agent <agent>] [--local]
uip skills install [--agent <agent>] [--local]
uip skills update [--agent <agent>] [--local]
uip skills uninstall [--agent <agent>] [--local]
All uip skills subcommands honor the global options (--output, --output-filter, --log-level, --log-file). Exit codes follow the standard contract.
Supported agents: claude, cursor, copilot, gemini, codex, opencode. Some agents have only a global install path; others support both local (per-project) and global. Run uip skills install --help for the per-agent destination table generated from the live registry.
uip skills install
Download skills from UiPath and install them into the selected agent's configuration. Writes to the user's home directory by default; pass --local to install under the current project instead.
Arguments: none.
Options:
--agent <agent>— Target a single agent (claude,cursor,copilot,gemini,codex,opencode). Without it, the CLI prompts interactively with a checkbox picker. Agents not supported for the current scope are hidden from the picker.--local— Install to the current project directory instead of the user home. Rejected for agents that only support a global path.
Examples:
# Install for Claude Code (global)
uip skills install --agent claude
# Install for Cursor, scoped to the current project
uip skills install --agent cursor --local
# Interactive picker
uip skills install
# Install for Claude Code (global)
uip skills install --agent claude
# Install for Cursor, scoped to the current project
uip skills install --agent cursor --local
# Interactive picker
uip skills install
Data shape (--output json):
{
"Code": "SkillsInstall",
"Data": {
"RootDir": "/Users/alice",
"Skills": ["uipath-agents", "uipath-rpa"],
"Agents": ["claude"],
"Installed": 2
}
}
{
"Code": "SkillsInstall",
"Data": {
"RootDir": "/Users/alice",
"Skills": ["uipath-agents", "uipath-rpa"],
"Agents": ["claude"],
"Installed": 2
}
}
RootDir— base directory the skills were written under (user home for global, project directory for--local).Skills— slugs of the skills fetched from the UiPath skills repository.Agents— agents targeted in this run.Installed— number of (agent, skill) pairs successfully installed.
Prerequisites: network access plus git. On Windows, skill unpacking uses PowerShell; on macOS/Linux, it uses unzip. If these are missing, the command fails with a Failure result pointing at the offending prerequisite.
uip skills update
Re-fetch skills from UiPath and re-install them. After installing the fresh set, the CLI prunes any skills that are no longer in the registry — so update also cleans up deprecated skills on disk.
Arguments: none.
Options:
--agent <agent>— Seeinstall.--local— Seeinstall.
Example:
uip skills update --agent claude
uip skills update --agent claude
Data shape (--output json):
{
"Code": "SkillsUpdate",
"Data": {
"RootDir": "/Users/alice",
"Skills": ["uipath-agents", "uipath-rpa"],
"Agents": ["claude"],
"Updated": 2
}
}
{
"Code": "SkillsUpdate",
"Data": {
"RootDir": "/Users/alice",
"Skills": ["uipath-agents", "uipath-rpa"],
"Agents": ["claude"],
"Updated": 2
}
}
Updated is the number of (agent, skill) pairs re-installed; stale entries are removed separately and silently.
uip skills uninstall
Remove previously installed skills from an agent's configuration and update the local manifest. uninstall does not perform any network calls — it relies on the manifest written by install / update to know which skills exist.
Arguments: none.
Options:
--agent <agent>— Seeinstall. Without it, the CLI prompts interactively. Passing an unknown agent fails withValidationError.--local— Remove from the current project instead of the user home.
Example:
uip skills uninstall --agent claude
uip skills uninstall --agent claude
Data shape (--output json):
{
"Code": "SkillsUninstall",
"Data": {
"RootDir": "/Users/alice",
"Skills": ["uipath-agents", "uipath-rpa"],
"Agents": ["claude"],
"Uninstalled": 2
}
}
{
"Code": "SkillsUninstall",
"Data": {
"RootDir": "/Users/alice",
"Skills": ["uipath-agents", "uipath-rpa"],
"Agents": ["claude"],
"Uninstalled": 2
}
}
Failure modes:
- No manifest found (nothing ever installed, or it was deleted manually):
ConfigErrorwith instructions to runuipath skills install. - Write permissions on the agent's configuration directory:
Failurewith a file-permissions hint. The CLI exits with code 1. - User cancels the interactive agent picker: the CLI exits with code 130 (SIGINT), per the standard contract.
Related
- Skills — what skills are, agent support matrix, and how they differ from tools.
- Authentication — not required for
skills; the registry is public. uip mcp— a secondary path for MCP-aware agents that do not support skills.