8x Skills

Portable agent skills for building, publishing, and remixing games on Paean Apps Square (*.clide.app / 8x.gg) — usable from Zero CLI, Claude Code, and Codex (or any agent that can read a SKILL.md and run a Node script).

The publish/remix skills ship as self-contained Node scripts — no npm install, no external dependencies beyond the Node runtime and a system zip/unzip. The paean-sdk skill ships browser reference files (no server, no build) you copy into your app.

8x-skills/
├── zero/
│   ├── paean-skills-update/ SKILL.md
│   ├── paean-zero-setup/ SKILL.md
│   ├── paean-sdk/       SKILL.md + reference/{paean-platform,mock-bridge}.js + test-example.mjs
│   ├── paean-publish/   SKILL.md + scripts/publish.mjs
│   └── paean-remix/     SKILL.md + scripts/remix.mjs
├── claude-code/
│   ├── paean-skills-update/ SKILL.md
│   ├── paean-zero-setup/ SKILL.md
│   ├── paean-sdk/       SKILL.md + reference/{paean-platform,mock-bridge}.js + test-example.mjs
│   ├── paean-publish/   SKILL.md + scripts/publish.mjs
│   └── paean-remix/     SKILL.md + scripts/remix.mjs
└── codex/
    ├── paean-skills-update/ SKILL.md
    ├── paean-zero-setup/ SKILL.md
    ├── paean-sdk/       SKILL.md + reference/{paean-platform,mock-bridge}.js + test-example.mjs
    ├── paean-publish/   SKILL.md + scripts/publish.mjs
    └── paean-remix/     SKILL.md + scripts/remix.mjs

All three variants ship the same scripts and reference files; only the SKILL.md packaging differs. The zero/ and claude-code/ variants use YAML frontmatter (name: + description:) for auto-loading — Zero CLI discovers skills from .zero/skills/ / ~/.zero/skills/, Claude Code from .claude/skills/ / ~/.claude/skills/. Codex has no skill loader and references the files explicitly.

Requirements

• Node.js 18+ (for global fetch).
• zip on PATH for publishing; unzip on PATH for remixing (both ship with macOS and most Linux distributions).
• A Paean JWT (the token the Paean web app / Zero CLI uses).

Credentials

Install Zero CLI and log in to Paean (recommended):

npm install -g @paean-ai/zero-cli
zero provider clear
zero login
zero auth status --json

The publish/remix scripts read the Paean credentials saved by Zero in ~/.zero/credentials.json. If browser login is not possible, set your Paean JWT via the environment, or a credentials file:

export PAEAN_AUTH_TOKEN="<your-paean-jwt>"
# or: ~/.paean/credentials.json  →  {"token":"<your-paean-jwt>"}

The scripts also read ~/.zero/credentials.json if present. Never paste the token into the chat — keep it in the environment or the credentials file. Optional: PAEAN_API_BASE overrides the API endpoint (default https://api.paean.ai). ZERO_API_BASE / ZERO_CLI_BASE_URL are only honored when they point at a *.paean.ai host — in particular ZERO_CLI_BASE_URL is often set to the LLM gateway (an Anthropic-compatible provider URL), which is not a Paean API address and is ignored.

Install

Zero CLI

Zero discovers skills from a skills/ directory — project .zero/skills/ or global ~/.zero/skills/. Copy each Zero skill directory in:

mkdir -p ~/.zero/skills
cp -r 8x-skills/zero/paean-publish ~/.zero/skills/
cp -r 8x-skills/zero/paean-remix   ~/.zero/skills/
cp -r 8x-skills/zero/paean-zero-setup ~/.zero/skills/
cp -r 8x-skills/zero/paean-sdk ~/.zero/skills/
cp -r 8x-skills/zero/paean-skills-update ~/.zero/skills/

Zero auto-offers a skill when a request matches its description; you can also invoke it explicitly ("use the paean-publish skill").

Claude Code

Copy a skill directory into your skills folder (project .claude/skills/ or global ~/.claude/skills/):

cp -r 8x-skills/claude-code/paean-publish ~/.claude/skills/
cp -r 8x-skills/claude-code/paean-remix   ~/.claude/skills/
cp -r 8x-skills/claude-code/paean-zero-setup ~/.claude/skills/
cp -r 8x-skills/claude-code/paean-skills-update ~/.claude/skills/

Claude Code auto-discovers the SKILL.md and offers the skill when relevant. You can also invoke it explicitly ("use the paean-publish skill").

Codex

Codex has no frontmatter skill loader, so reference the skill explicitly. Either keep this repo in your project and add a pointer to your AGENTS.md:

## Skills
- To update Paean skills, follow `8x-skills/codex/paean-skills-update/SKILL.md`.
- To install Zero CLI or log in to Paean for publishing, follow `8x-skills/codex/paean-zero-setup/SKILL.md`.
- To publish to Paean Apps Square, follow `8x-skills/codex/paean-publish/SKILL.md`.
- To remix Paean Apps Square games, follow `8x-skills/codex/paean-remix/SKILL.md`.

…or point Codex at the file directly in your prompt.

Usage

From the project you want to publish:

# Preview, then publish under a good name
node <skill-dir>/scripts/publish.mjs --dry-run
node <skill-dir>/scripts/publish.mjs --yes --title "Neon Drift Racer" --category racing

To remix existing games into a new one:

# Download h1's gameplay, h2's art, h3's theme; then build the new game and publish it
node <skill-dir>/scripts/remix.mjs --yes h1=gameplay h2=art h3=theme --dir my-remix

Run any script with --help for full usage. See each skill's SKILL.md for the complete workflow the agent should follow.

The remix graph (clide.json)

paean-remix writes a clide.json manifest that records lineage in two compatible shapes at once:

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "title": "Neon Drift Racer",
  "category": "racing",
  "tags": ["neon", "racing"],
  "license": "MIT",
  "remix": {
    "parent": "h1",                                  // tree form: primary upstream
    "parents": [                                     // graph form: the remix DAG
      { "hashKey": "h1", "role": "gameplay", "weight": 1 },
      { "hashKey": "h2", "role": "art",      "weight": 1 },
      { "hashKey": "h3", "role": "theme",    "weight": 1 }
    ]
  }
}

remix.parent keeps tree-only consumers (and the backend remixOfHashKey primary-parent field) working, while remix.parents[] is the adjacency list of the multi-parent remix DAG — each direct upstream with the aspect it contributed and a suggested revenue weight. paean-publish forwards the direct parent hashKeys as remixOfHashKeys, so zero-api records SquareRemixEdge rows for the full graph.

Safety

• Publishing is public. The scripts require explicit confirmation (or --yes) and warn before listing.
• Published games should include the standard paean.ai copyright comment in index.html and carry a project LICENSE; remixes should also record direct parents in clide.json.
• Games should ship a top-level favicon.svg and an 800x400 banner.jpg. The publish script warns when either is missing or the banner size is wrong, but does not block publishing.
• Credentials are read from the environment / a credentials file only — never hard-coded, and never written into the published output.
• A high-confidence secret scanner blocks publishing files that look like private keys or API tokens.
• Raw downloaded upstream sources (.remix-sources/) and the clide.json manifest are excluded from the published site by default.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.