ToolUniverse Install Skills Checks whether the ToolUniverse specialized skills are installed and installs them automatically if not. Detection Use the Shell tool to check for the canary file across all common client locations: ls .cursor/skills/tooluniverse-drug-research/SKILL.md 2
/dev/null \ || ls .agents/skills/tooluniverse-drug-research/SKILL.md 2
/dev/null \ || ls .windsurf/skills/tooluniverse-drug-research/SKILL.md 2
/dev/null \ || ls .gemini/skills/tooluniverse-drug-research/SKILL.md 2
/dev/null \ || ls .claude/skills/tooluniverse-drug-research/SKILL.md 2
/dev/null \ || ls .opencode/skills/tooluniverse-drug-research/SKILL.md 2
/dev/null \ || ls .trae/skills/tooluniverse-drug-research/SKILL.md 2
/dev/null \ || ls .skills/tooluniverse-drug-research/SKILL.md 2
/dev/null \ || echo "NOT_INSTALLED" Output is a file path → skills already installed, stop here. Output is NOT_INSTALLED → proceed to installation. Installation
1. Download skills from GitHub (shallow, sparse — only skills/ folder)
git clone --depth 1 --filter = blob:none --sparse \ https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse.git /tmp/tu-skills cd /tmp/tu-skills && git sparse-checkout set skills
2. Copy to the correct directory for the detected client:
mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r /tmp/tu-skills/skills/* .cursor/skills/
Cursor
mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r /tmp/tu-skills/skills/* .agents/skills/ # Codex/OpenAI
mkdir -p .windsurf/skills && cp -r /tmp/tu-skills/skills/* .windsurf/skills/ # Windsurf
mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r /tmp/tu-skills/skills/* .gemini/skills/ # Gemini CLI
mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/tu-skills/skills/* .claude/skills/ # Claude Code
mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r /tmp/tu-skills/skills/* .opencode/skills/ # OpenCode
mkdir -p .trae/skills && cp -r /tmp/tu-skills/skills/* .trae/skills/ # Trae
mkdir -p .skills && cp -r /tmp/tu-skills/skills/* .skills/ # Cline/VS Code
3. Clean up
rm -rf /tmp/tu-skills If the client cannot be detected automatically, ask the user which one they use before running step 2. Client Detection Detect the client from the presence of config files: Config file present Client .cursor/ Cursor .agents/ Codex / OpenAI .windsurf/ Windsurf .gemini/ Gemini CLI .claude/ Claude Code .opencode/ OpenCode .trae/ Trae None of the above Ask the user After Installation Confirm success: ls .cursor/skills/tooluniverse-drug-research/SKILL.md Tell the user: "ToolUniverse skills installed successfully. You now have access to 50+ specialized research workflows."