SkillCheatSheet
local-api
An AI agent skill from smol-machines/smolvm, scored 65 out of 100 by code.
Code score by group
It loses the most points in Procedure (11), the group that checks whether the steps are numbered, read the context first and say what to do when something fails.
What the author says it does
Drives smolvm programmatically over its local HTTP API (smolvm serve) instead of the CLI: create machines, exec and stream commands, move files in and out, and tear them down. Use when building a client, harness, agent tool or MCP backend over smolvm; when a create call is accepted but the machine behaves as if a field was ignored; when a file uploaded over the API has disappeared; when an exec that failed still returned HTTP 200; or when choosing between the Unix socket and loopback TCP. Do not use it as a substitute for the CLI in a shell script, and do not bind a plain listener beyond loop…
This is the description in the skill's own SKILL.md, written by its author, not by SkillCheatSheet.
- Repository
- smol-machines/smolvm
- Folder
- docs/local-api
- License
- Apache-2.0
- GitHub stars
- 7,092
- SKILL.md lines
- 283
- Other files
- 8
Add local-api to your agent
npx skills add smol-machines/smolvm --skill local-apiThe command uses the open skills CLI. A skill is instructions and scripts your agent will follow, so read it first: open the folder on GitHub at the commit that was scored.
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