Zero is an agent-first programming language where the graph is the program
database and .0 files are human-readable projections.
Install this skill once in an agent's skill manager. Keep it thin; Zero's own CLI serves the version-matched workflow for each installed compiler.
Install the latest release:
curl -fsSL https://zerolang.ai/install.sh | bash
export PATH="$HOME/.zero/bin:$PATH"
zero --version
Version-Matched Skills
This file is only a discovery stub. Do not treat it as the full Zero workflow or as command reference.
Before editing, checking, testing, or repairing Zero code, ask the installed compiler for the skill content that matches that exact binary:
zero skills
zero skills get zero
zero skills get zero --full
If the user has multiple Zero binaries, use the same binary that will run the project:
/path/to/zero skills
/path/to/zero skills get zero --full
Use zero skills to discover additional skills bundled with that Zero version.
Use zero skills get <name> to load only what is relevant to the task. Common
inner skills include agent, language, graph, diagnostics, packages,
builds, testing, and stdlib.
Agents should normally author through the graph and use .0 projections only
for human review or explicit import/export work. Prefer concise text output
during interactive agent work; use --json only for automation, exact spans,
contracts, or machine-readable diagnostics.
Common Entry Points
zero query [graph-or-package]
zero patch [graph-or-package] --op '<operation>'
zero check [graph-or-package]
zero test [graph-or-package]
zero run [graph-or-package] -- <args>
zero diff [graph-or-package]
zero explain <diagnostic-code>
zero fix --plan [graph-or-package]
In a Zero repository checkout, prefer bin/zero when the task is about that checkout rather than the globally installed compiler.