Vercel Academy Skills

Companion skills for Vercel Academy courses. Install with any coding agent that supports the Skills standard.

Skills

Core skill (global)

Discover courses, guided learning, progress tracking. Install globally so it's available in any project:

npx skills add vercel-labs/academy-skills --skill academy -g -y

Course skills (per-project)

Each course has a companion skill with a project wizard, progress detection, and lesson-by-lesson guidance. Install in your project directory when you start a course:

Building Filesystem Agents — Build agents that navigate filesystems with bash to answer questions about structured data.

npx skills add vercel-labs/academy-skills --skill filesystem-agents -y

Building Slack Agents — Build and deploy a Slack agent in one session.

npx skills add vercel-labs/academy-skills --skill slack-agents -y

Subscription Store — Build a subscription storefront with Next.js, Supabase, and Stripe.

npx skills add vercel-labs/academy-skills --skill subscription-store -y

Building Agents with Eve — Build a production bike-shop dispatcher with Eve, from first tool to a deployed app behind Slack, a web dashboard, real auth, and human approval.

npx skills add vercel-labs/academy-skills --skill building-agents-with-eve -y

Launch an AI Startup on Vercel: Take an AI app from a first deploy to launch: Previews and rollback, Postgres and sign-in, AI Gateway with fallbacks and spend limits, an eve agent that asks before it posts to Slack, and production tracing, abuse protection, and flags.

npx skills add vercel-labs/academy-skills --skill launch-an-ai-startup -y

Agent-Friendly APIs: Build a feedback API, then build a skill that generates the documentation agents need to use it.

npx skills add vercel-labs/academy-skills --skill agent-friendly-apis -y

Python on Vercel — Run a FastAPI backend and Next.js frontend as one Vercel project under one domain.

npx skills add vercel-labs/academy-skills --skill python-on-vercel -y

Architecture

skills/
  academy/             → core: discovery + learning companion
    SKILL.md
  slack-agents/        → course: scaffold + wizard + teaching
    SKILL.md
    references/
  filesystem-agents/   → course: teaching + progress detection
    SKILL.md
    references/
  subscription-store/  → course: guided build
    SKILL.md
  building-agents-with-eve/  → course: teaching + progress detection + eval
    SKILL.md
    references/
  agent-friendly-apis/  → course: teaching + progress detection + eval
    SKILL.md
    references/
  python-on-vercel/   → course: FastAPI + Next.js teaching + evaluation
    SKILL.md
  launch-an-ai-startup/  → course: build mode + progress detection + failure labs + eval
    SKILL.md
    references/

Course skills fetch lesson content from Academy's .md endpoints at runtime:

/academy/llms.txt                          → course index
/academy/<course>.md                       → course overview
/academy/<course>/<lesson>.md              → lesson content
/academy/llms-full.txt                     → bulk export

Creating a new course skill

Create skills/<course-slug>/SKILL.md
Define the curriculum map, progress detection, and slash commands
Add reference docs in skills/<course-slug>/references/
Test with a simulated student walkthrough

See skills/filesystem-agents/ for the reference implementation.