Hyvä AI Skills
AI coding assistants have become part of many developers' daily workflows. Tools like Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and others can write code, but they don't know the specifics of Hyvä development out of the box. They might generate Luma-style templates, miss CSP requirements, or structure components incorrectly.
We wanted to fix that.
This is Hyvä's first statement on AI. We don't chase the latest hype — we wait until trends stabilise. Once a trajectory becomes dependable, we act. This release is an expression of the human-focused Hyvä philosophy, where developer experience is a key value.
Introducing Hyvä AI Skills
Last Sunday, during Meet-Magento India, we released Hyvä AI Tools — a set of skills that extend coding assistants with Hyvä-specific knowledge.
The skills help with common Hyvä development tasks:
A few utility skills support these: hyva-compile-tailwind-css, hyva-theme-list, hyva-cms-components-dump, and hyva-exec-shell-cmd. They primarily serve the other skills, but can be invoked directly when needed.
Why AI Skills?
We chose this approach deliberately. AI skills are becoming a standard way to extend coding assistants. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, OpenCode — they all support AI skills, and more tools are implementing this technology every day.
By writing cross-AI compatible skills, the tooling becomes available to all developers using coding agents. Not just those who can afford the most expensive plans or are locked into a specific ecosystem.
Another benefit: skills are loaded on demand. They don't consume context window space, they are actually used. This keeps the AI's working memory clear for your actual work, rather than cluttering it with instructions you might never use during that session. Good agent skills can be composed together like functions or methods, building complex workflows from simpler, focused components.
That said, agent skills aren't a magic bullet. Knowing how to use a coding agent effectively still matters — proper prompting and context engineering remain essential. Skills provide domain knowledge, but getting good results depends on how you guide the conversation.
AI Skills Installation
The repository includes a one-line install command for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini. For other tools or manual setup, clone the repository and copy the skill directories to your platform's skills folder.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hyva-themes/hyva-ai-tools/refs/heads/main/install.sh | sh -s claude
Replace claude with gemini, codex or cursor, depending on what coding agent you use.
What's Next
This is the initial release. We'll expand the skill set over time based on common development patterns and community feedback. If you have suggestions for skills that would help your workflow, let us know.
The repository is at github.com/hyva-themes/hyva-ai-tools.
