How do I install the Gaia skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add tomevault-io/gaia in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

What does the Gaia skill do?

GAIA workflow router. Dispatches to the four user-invoked GAIA workflows - plan (task orchestration), handoff (session handoff doc), pickup (resume from handoff), audit (knowledge audit). Trigger on `/gaia ` or natural-language asks like "kick off a plan", "write a handoff", "pick up where we left off", "audit the knowledge stores". Use when this capability is needed. It is listed under Web & Frontend on SkillMD.

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. Independent scanners report: SkillSpector: PASS, Skill Scanner: PASS. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with Gaia?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

tomevault-io (@tomevault-io) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Gaia by tomevault-io — Agent Skill

Name: Gaia
Author: tomevault-io

Gaia

GAIA workflow router. Dispatches to the four user-invoked GAIA workflows - plan (task orchestration), handoff (session handoff doc), pickup (resume from handoff), audit (knowledge audit). Trigger on `/gaia <subcommand>` or natural-language asks like "kick off a plan", "write a handoff", "pick up where we left off", "audit the knowledge stores". Use when this capability is needed.

tomevault-io Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

GAIA Router

User-invoked GAIA workflows. The first argument selects the sub-command.

Routing

Parse the first whitespace-separated token of $ARGUMENTS:

First arg	Action
`plan`	Read `references/plan.md` and follow it.
`handoff`	Read `references/handoff.md` and follow it.
`pickup`	Read `references/pickup.md` and follow it.
`audit`	Read `references/audit.md` and follow it.
(anything else, including empty)	print help

Reference paths are relative to this skill (.claude/skills/gaia/). Strip the first arg before passing the remainder; inside the reference, $ARGUMENTS semantically refers to whatever followed the sub-command (e.g. --apply for audit).

Help message format:

Usage: /gaia <subcommand> [args]

  plan [description]   Plan a feature using task orchestration
  handoff [notes]      Generate a session handoff document
  pickup               Restore context from the most recent handoff
  audit [--apply]      Audit memory + wiki and apply changes (--apply: re-apply existing report only)

Source: gaia-react/gaia — distributed by TomeVault.

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