Create a skill

Upload a Skill as a zip archive.

POST /api/v1/cloud/skills

Uploads and creates a new Skill resource. Skill content must be uploaded as a .zip archive using multipart/form-data encoding.

Headers

Header	Required	Description
Authorization	Yes	Bearer $QODER_PAT
Content-Type	No	Set automatically by curl -F to multipart/form-data; do not specify manually

Request body (multipart/form-data)

Field	Type	Required	Description
file	file	Yes	.zip archive of skill content, maximum 5 MB
name	string	No	Accepted for compatibility, but the API uses the name from SKILL.md frontmatter
type	string	No	Skill type. One of: custom, prebuilt (default custom)
description	string	No	Accepted for compatibility, but the API uses the description from SKILL.md frontmatter
metadata	JSON string	No	Custom metadata as a JSON object

Zip file structure

The archive must contain SKILL.md at the archive root or one directory below the root. SKILL.md must start with YAML frontmatter in this format:

---
name: my-skill
description: Skill description
version: 1.0.0
---

# Skill title

## Steps
1. Step one
2. Step two

Zip entry paths may use either / or Windows-style \ separators; the service normalizes them when locating SKILL.md.

Example request

# Prepare skill content
mkdir my-skill && cat > my-skill/SKILL.md << 'EOF'
---
name: my-custom-skill
description: Custom skill example
version: 1.0.0
---

# My Custom Skill

## Steps
1. Perform action A
2. Perform action B

## Verification
Confirm the operation completed.
EOF

# Pack as zip
cd my-skill && zip ../my-skill.zip SKILL.md && cd ..

# Upload to create
curl -X POST https://api.qoder.com/api/v1/cloud/skills \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $QODER_PAT" \
  -F "name=my-custom-skill" \
  -F "type=custom" \
  -F 'metadata={"team":"docs"}' \
  -F "description=Custom skill example" \
  -F "file=@my-skill.zip"

Example response

HTTP 201 Created

{
  "id": "skill_019e3bba474b73cfaf19eae9b5f5e66d",
  "type": "skill",
  "display_title": "my-custom-skill",
  "description": "Custom skill example",
  "source": "custom",
  "latest_version": "1",
  "metadata": {
    "team": "docs"
  },
  "created_at": "2026-05-18T15:35:24.248164Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-05-18T15:35:24.248164Z"
}

Response fields

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Skill unique identifier with the skill_ prefix
type	string	Always "skill"
display_title	string	Display title derived from the stored skill name
description	string	Skill description
source	string	Skill source: custom or qoder
latest_version	string	Latest version number as a string
metadata	object	Custom metadata object stored with the Skill; defaults to {}
created_at	string	Creation time (ISO 8601)
updated_at	string	Last update time (ISO 8601)

Errors

HTTP	Type	Trigger
400	invalid_request_error	Non-multipart request: “Invalid multipart form or request too large.”
400	invalid_request_error	Missing file field: “Field ‘file’ is required.”
400	invalid_request_error	Not a zip file: “Only .zip files are accepted.”
401	TOKEN_INVALID	Missing or invalid authentication token

Notes

• Duplicate skill names are allowed (uniqueness is not enforced).
• name and description are always read from the SKILL.md frontmatter. Form values do not override the archive content.
• Skill names must be at most 64 characters and contain only lowercase letters, digits, hyphens (-), or underscores (_), starting with a letter or digit.
• Zip archives created on Windows are supported; backslash path separators are normalized.
• Initial version number is 1.
• JSON Content-Type is not supported; multipart/form-data is required.

See Errors for the full error envelope.

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