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aam source enable-defaults

Source Management

Synopsis

aam source enable-defaults [OPTIONS]

Description

Enable all default community skill sources shipped with AAM. This command registers the 4 curated default sources that provide immediate access to popular skills, agents, and prompts from the community.

If any default sources were previously removed with aam source remove, this command re-enables them by clearing their entries from the removed_defaults list. Sources that are already configured are skipped.

After enabling defaults, run aam source update --all to clone the repositories and scan for artifacts.

Options

Option Short Default Description
--json false Output as JSON

Default sources

AAM ships with 4 curated community sources:

# Name Repository Path
1 github/awesome-copilot github.com/github/awesome-copilot skills
2 openai/skills:.curated github.com/openai/skills skills/.curated
3 anthropics/skills github.com/anthropics/skills skills
4 microsoft/skills github.com/microsoft/skills .github/skills

Examples

Example 1: Enable all defaults

aam source enable-defaults

Output: 

  ✓ github/awesome-copilot — added
  ✓ openai/skills:.curated — added
  ✓ anthropics/skills — added
  ✓ microsoft/skills — added

  4 source(s) enabled, 0 already configured (out of 4 defaults)

  Run aam source update --all to clone and scan.

                   Default Skill Sources
  ┏━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
  ┃ # ┃ Name                      ┃ URL                                  ┃ Path            ┃
  ┡━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
  │ 1 │ github/awesome-copilot    │ https://github.com/github/awesome-…  │ skills          │
  │ 2 │ openai/skills:.curated    │ https://github.com/openai/skills.…   │ skills/.curated │
  │ 3 │ anthropics/skills         │ https://github.com/anthropics/skil…  │ skills          │
  │ 4 │ microsoft/skills         │ https://github.com/microsoft/skills   │ .github/skills  │
  └───┴───────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────┘

Example 2: Re-enable after removing defaults

# Remove a default source
aam source remove openai/skills:.curated

# Later, re-enable all defaults
aam source enable-defaults

Output: 

  ✓ openai/skills:.curated — re-enabled
  – github/awesome-copilot — already configured
  – anthropics/skills — already configured
  – microsoft/skills — already configured

  1 source(s) enabled, 3 already configured (out of 4 defaults)

  Run aam source update --all to clone and scan.

Example 3: JSON output

aam source enable-defaults --json

Output: 

{
  "registered": ["github/awesome-copilot", "openai/skills:.curated",
    "anthropics/skills", "microsoft/skills"],
  "re_enabled": [],
  "skipped": [],
  "total": 4
}

Behavior

  1. AAM loads the current configuration.
  2. For each of the 4 default sources:
    • If the source is already configured, it is skipped.
    • If the source was previously removed, it is cleared from removed_defaults and re-registered.
    • Otherwise, a new source entry is created with default: true.
  3. Sources are registered without cloning. Run aam source update --all to clone and scan.

Exit codes

Code Meaning
0 Success
1 Error enabling defaults

See also