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Agent Skill (for AI Coding Agents)

Transformer Lab ships an agent skill that teaches AI coding agents — Claude Code, and other compatible assistants — how to drive Transformer Lab through the lab CLI.

Once installed, your agent knows how to:

  • check job status and stream logs
  • queue, upload, and edit training tasks
  • list, add, and configure compute providers
  • create models and upload/download datasets
  • publish job outputs

…all by running lab commands on your behalf, from inside your normal coding session.

Install​

The easiest way is the bundled CLI command:

lab install-agent-skill

Behind the scenes this runs the following on your behalf:

npx skills add transformerlab/transformerlab-app --skill transformerlab-cli

You'll need Node.js installed (npx ships with it). If npx is missing, the command will tell you.

If you prefer to run the underlying npx invocation directly, that one-liner above works on its own. (You'll still need the lab CLI installed for the skill itself to be useful — the skill drives Transformer Lab by calling lab commands.)

What it teaches the agent​

The skill is the same definition that lives in this repo at .agents/skills/transformerlab-cli/. It's a small bundle of instructions and command references that tells the agent which lab subcommands to use for common workflows, so you can ask things like:

  • "What jobs are running on the lab cluster?"
  • "Queue a training task using the dataset I just uploaded."
  • "Stream logs for the last training job and tell me when it finishes."

…and the agent will translate those into the right lab calls.

Updating​

Re-run lab install-agent-skill (or the npx command) any time you upgrade Transformer Lab to pick up the latest version of the skill.