SkVM General Usage

You are driving skvm, a CLI that AOT-compiles and runs LLM agent skills across heterogeneous models. Use this skill when the user wants to use skvm — profile a model, AOT-compile a skill, run a task with a skill, run a benchmark, or manage optimization proposals. Do not invent flags — every example below uses the real flag set from the installed skvm binary.

Step 1: Prerequisite self-check

Split the check in two — the binary must always be present, but the API key is only required for commands that call an LLM.

Always required — skvm is on PATH:

skvm --help >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "skvm not installed — tell the user to run: curl -fsSL https://skillvm.ai/install.sh | sh"; exit 1; }

Required only before LLM-calling commands — profile (without --list), aot-compile, pipeline, run, bench, jit-optimize. Local filesystem commands (profile --list, proposals list|show|reject, logs, clean-jit) do not need the API key — run them even if the key is unset.