Skills by Programmers.io

Agent skills for IBM i. Drop-in plugins for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, and any harness that reads AGENTS.md.

Skills

Skill	What it does
ia	IBM i Impact Analysis — where-used, call hierarchy, field impact, file dependents, program-spec generation.
using-ia	Tiny bootstrap that primes the agent to reach for ia on any IBM i task. Loads automatically via session-start hook.

Install

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add programmersio-ibmi/skills
/plugin install ia@skills

IBM Bob

npx skills add programmersio-ibmi/skills

Installs to .bob/skills/ in the current project. Add -g to install globally to ~/.bob/skills/ and use across all your Bob projects.

Gemini CLI

gemini extensions install https://github.com/programmersio-ibmi/skills

GitHub Copilot CLI

Add this repo to your settings:

// settings.json
{
  "chat.plugins.marketplaces": [
    "https://github.com/programmersio-ibmi/skills"
  ]
}

Cursor

Install from the Cursor plugin marketplace, or clone manually:

git clone https://github.com/programmersio-ibmi/skills ~/.cursor/plugins/ia

Any other harness (manual)

git clone https://github.com/programmersio-ibmi/skills
cp -r skills/ia ~/.claude/skills/      # or wherever your harness loads skills from

Try it

Once installed, ask the agent something like:

Trace where field CUSTNO is used in CUSTMAST.

The agent should invoke the ia skill automatically (no /ia prefix needed) and answer in 1–2 tool calls.

How it works

The ia skill teaches the agent to use the iA MCP tools — a read-only suite for IBM i programs, files, fields, dependencies, and call hierarchies.

You also need the iA MCP server running locally and pointed at an iA-parsed repository. For deployment help, contact us (see below).

Support

For setup help, MCP server deployment, custom tool requests, or anything else:

Email: support@programmers.io

License

MIT — see LICENSE.