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The prava CLI does the work; skills tell the agent when to call what. A skill is a small instruction file installed into the agent’s runtime that encodes the correct flow, the pacing, and the safety stops, so the agent invokes setup, sessions, and shop commands in the right order and pauses for the user’s approval before spending.
The CLI works without any skill: every prava command runs on its own. The skill adds the guidance: which command comes next, when to stop and confirm, and how to keep the user in control. If the matching skill is missing, the CLI nudges you (once) to install it.

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Why skills matter

Left to itself, an agent might chain commands or spend without checking. Skills prevent that by encoding:
  • One decision per turn: after search, wait for the user to pick; after product, wait for them to confirm the seller/variant; after quote, wait for them to approve the total.
  • Confirmation hard-stops: the agent must present the merchant, item, and final amount and get an explicit “yes” before sessions create / checkout. “Buy me X” is intent, not price approval.
  • PII masking: the agent works with masked address summaries only; full details stay server-side.
  • Move promptly: card credentials are single-use and short-lived, so mint → poll → checkout without pausing.

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The skills

Most agents want prava-pay (to pay for a known item) or prava-shopping (to find and buy).

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Install a skill

Install into the agent’s global skills directory (e.g. ~/.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md):
Pass --full-depth with --skill <name>. Otherwise sibling skills are pulled in alongside the one you asked for.
Valid --skill names: prava-pay, prava-shopping, prava-sdk-integration, swiggy-prava-skill, zepto-prava-skill.

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Keeping skills current

The CLI checks your installed skill version on every call. If it’s behind the server minimum, it prints:
Update, then re-run your command. If the notice repeats, restart the agent session so it reloads the skill. See Troubleshooting.

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Platforms

Skills work across coding agents: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Hermes, and many more. The agent’s platform is set with --platform when you run prava setup.

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Next steps

Link an agent

Connect and approve the agent before it can pay.

Agentic shopping

The search → quote → checkout flow the shopping skill guides.