Manage Agent Runtime Capabilities With Capa

---
name: "Manage agent runtime capabilities with CAPA"
slug: "manage-agent-runtime-capabilities-with-capa"
description: "Use CAPA to declare coding-agent skills, rules, tools, MCP servers, sub-agents, and plugins once in capabilities.yaml, then install native provider files across Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and related agents."
github_stars: 692
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/infragate/capa"
author: "Infragate"
publisher_type: "organization-maintained open-source"
category: "Developer Tools"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "infragate/capa"
  github_stars: 692
---

# Manage agent runtime capabilities with CAPA

Use CAPA to declare coding-agent skills, rules, tools, MCP servers, sub-agents, and plugins once in capabilities.yaml, then install native provider files across Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and related agents.

## Prerequisites

CAPA CLI, capabilities.yaml, supported AI coding-agent runtimes, optional MCP servers/tools declared by the project

## Installation

Install or set up from the source-backed instructions:

Install from the upstream release or review and run the installer published at https://capa.infragate.ai. In a repo, run capa init, edit capabilities.yaml, then run capa install.

- Source: https://github.com/infragate/capa

## Documentation

- https://capa.infragate.ai/docs/introduction

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/manage-agent-runtime-capabilities-with-capa/)