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8 command groups · recorded live with VHS

81 commands. One flagship each.

boost's command surface spans 8 groups, from package management to team collaboration. Rather than one near-identical recording per command, this page tours one representative command per group — the one that shows what that group is actually for — captured straight from a real terminal, no hand-edited frames.

81Commands across 8 groups

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Every recording runs against a disposable $HOME and a throwaway fixture tap — the same sandbox the test suite uses — so nothing here touches a real skill setup.

zsh — boost install

Package Management

`boost install`

Install a skill from a tap registry

One command copies a skill into the canonical store, where Gemini CLI and Codex read it directly, symlinks it into Claude Code, Windsurf, Cursor and Antigravity CLI, and records it in the lock file with a quality score attached. No hand-copying SKILL.md into six agents' folders.

uninstallsyncupdatebundle importpinsnapshotexport

13 commands in this group.

regenerate: vhs docs/carousel/tapes/install.tape

zsh — boost search

Discovery & Search

`boost search`

Search skills across tap registries (AI-ranked)

Search isn't grep over filenames — it's full-content BM25 over every skill's body text, so a query can match a rule buried three headings deep with no setup required. Ranked results ship with a relevance meter, and --smart reranks the top hits with Claude when it's available.

reindexdiscoverrecommendbrowse trendingstatscount

9 commands in this group.

regenerate: vhs docs/carousel/tapes/search.tape

zsh — boost explain

Skill Information

`boost explain`

Explain what a skill does in plain English

Point it at any skill in a tapped registry — installed or not — and get a plain-English read of what it changes about the agent's behavior and when it triggers. With no claude CLI or API key on hand it falls back to an honest heuristic: description, outline, and every always/never rule.

listinfocatpreview logdepstag

10 commands in this group.

regenerate: vhs docs/carousel/tapes/explain.tape

zsh — boost tap

Registry (Taps)

`boost tap`

Add a GitHub repo as a skill registry

Tap any bare GitHub repo — or browse the bundled catalog of 662 classified registries offline with --catalog --dry-run before committing to one. Once tapped, everything inside becomes searchable and installable.

untaptapsoutdatedcatalog

5 commands in this group.

regenerate: vhs docs/carousel/tapes/tap.tape

zsh — boost distill

Intelligence

`boost distill`

Merge multiple skills into one deduplicated skill

Distill folds two or more skills into a single SKILL.md — union the tags, keep every distinct rule once, drop the redundant ones — with Claude doing the merge when it's available and a mechanical, honest fallback when it isn't.

simulateinferabsorbevolve contextfocusimpact

9 commands in this group.

regenerate: vhs docs/carousel/tapes/distill.tape

zsh — boost doctor

Quality & Health

`boost doctor`

Check installation health & report issues

Doctor audits git, every tap, the lock file, each installed skill's agent symlinks, and log rotation in one pass — then names the exact command that fixes whatever it finds. Here it catches a skill wiped from the store, and heal restores it straight from the tap.

lintauditverifydrift healconflictattesthealth

15 commands in this group.

regenerate: vhs docs/carousel/tapes/doctor.tape

zsh — boost hooks

Configuration

`boost hooks`

Manage agent hooks (Claude Code, Gemini CLI) in settings.json

Add, list, and remove hooks at either scope, for Claude Code or Gemini CLI, without hand-editing JSON. Event names and timeout units differ between the two; boost translates and says so. Every hook boost creates is tagged with a marker comment, so it only ever touches hooks it made — yours are always left alone.

configcreatepolicyschedule servemcpbmadself-update

14 commands in this group.

regenerate: vhs docs/carousel/tapes/hooks.tape

zsh — boost pulse

Team & Collaboration

`boost pulse`

Team activity feed of skill-management events

A local, chronological feed of every skill-management action — who tapped or installed what, and when — ready to hand off to a team with boost onboard instead of a Slack thread.

cohortprofileprotocol replaywho

6 commands in this group.

regenerate: vhs docs/carousel/tapes/pulse.tape

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