Plugins
The You.com skills install into eleven agent platforms through each host’s native plugin system. One repo, youdotcom-oss/agent-skills, ships the manifests and packages. Every path delivers the same four skills: you-web, you-research, you-finance, and you-discover.
Skills, Plugins, and MCP Servers
Skills, plugins, and MCP servers are three different layers. Skills are what the agent knows—routing and usage guidance for You.com surfaces. Plugins are how it gets them—packaging for your host’s install and update mechanism. MCP servers are what it calls—the tools that hit the You.com APIs.
Installing a plugin gives you skills plus guidance. Configuring MCP alone gives you tools without that guidance—still the right choice when you want raw tool access and nothing else.
Install for Your Platform
No account required to try any of these. Every install path works keyless through the free MCP profile (https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free): you-search and you-discover, 100 queries per day. Add YDC_API_KEY or sign in with OAuth for page extraction, research, and finance tools.
Published Packages
OpenCode: @youdotcom-oss/opencode
Installs the four skills and configures the You.com MCP servers in OpenCode in a single step. The you, you-research, and you-finance servers sign in with your You.com account through OpenCode’s remote MCP support. The you-free and you-docs servers need no auth. The OpenCode page covers the full server table and setup.
OpenClaw: @youdotcom-oss/openclaw
Packages the four skills with setup metadata for the You.com provider, so OpenClaw walks through YDC_API_KEY configuration on install. The plugin entry point is runtime-free—the skills and metadata do the work. you-search and you-discover run without credentials. See the agent-skills repo for the package source.
Pi: @youdotcom-oss/pi
Registers the four skills and bridges the You.com MCP servers into Pi: you, you-research, and you-finance read YDC_API_KEY as a bearer token, while you-free, you-discover, and you-docs need no key. Requires Pi 0.99.1 or later. The Pi page covers the full server table and setup.
Hermes: Agent Plugins Package
Ships as a portable Agent Plugins package installed straight from GitHub—Hermes shows an unreviewed-source warning because it comes from outside the Hermes plugin catalog, and it installs disabled until hermes plugins enable you. The you, you-research, and you-finance servers sign in with OAuth. The Hermes page covers usage and troubleshooting.