boat
Manage Boat (boat.dev, formerly Box by Ascii) cloud sandboxes via API, CLI, and SSH. Use for provisioning, environments, secrets, templates, snapshots, stop/resume/fork, or running BB and coding agents on Boat.
Install / Use
npx skills add davidondrej/skills --skill boatInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
Development & EngineeringSupported Platforms
Our assessment of boat
boat scores 86/100 on our quality scale, 1120th of 2,717 Development & Engineering skills we index (top 42%).
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 4,079 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 3 days ago, so boat is actively maintained.
- It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
- Its trust signals score 100/100, with no cautions. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
boat compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than boat; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| boat (this skill)by davidondrej | 86 | 4.1k | 3d ago | SKILL.md |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 85.7k | 12d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| headroomby headroomlabs-ai | 100 | 73.9k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| ai-job-searchby MadsLorentzen | 100 | 44.1k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| claude-howtoby luongnv89 | 100 | 41.7k | 1d ago | CLAUDE.md |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install boat?
- Run
npx skills add davidondrej/skills --skill boat. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does boat work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is boat safe to use?
- It is MIT-licensed and scores 100/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is boat still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 3 days ago, so boat is actively maintained.
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.