Registry Overview

The Kenji registry is a decentralized index of skills and stacks maintained across multiple public GitHub repositories. When you run kenji search or kenji install <namespace>/<name>, results are aggregated from the official registry and all connected community registries.

How registries work

Each registry is a GitHub repository containing only JSON metadata files. These files describe skills and stacks — they don't contain the actual Markdown instruction files. The repo field in each entry points to the repository where the actual content lives.

Official and community registries

The official Kenji registry is maintained at kenjiprotocol/registry — view it on GitHub ↗. Anyone can create and submit a community registry. Community skills are labeled in search results and require user confirmation before installing.

Search aggregation

Kenji queries its hosted API, which aggregates results across all registered registries. You don't need to specify which registry to search — all of them are included automatically.