Nex Agent Skill: Cross-Agent Context for Any Compatible Agent Framework
The Nex Agent Skill is a portable skill file (SKILL.md) that gives any compatible agent framework direct access to your organization's context graph. Drop the skill into any agent that supports the SKILL.md format — including Claude Code, OpenClaw, and other compatible frameworks — and the agent gains the ability to recall, store, and search organizational knowledge without any additional plugins or server configuration.
What Is a SKILL.md File?
A SKILL.md file is a self-contained instruction set that teaches an AI agent how to perform a specific capability. Think of it as a portable plugin that lives as a single Markdown file. The agent reads the skill file and gains new abilities — in this case, the ability to interact with your Nex context graph using curl commands. No SDK installation, no dependency management, no build step. The skill file contains everything the agent needs: API endpoints, authentication patterns, request formats, and behavioral guidelines.
What the Nex Agent Skill Enables
Once loaded, the agent can perform the full range of Nex context operations through the Nex REST API. This includes searching and retrieving context from your organization's knowledge graph, creating and updating records such as contacts, companies, and deals, managing notes, tasks, and relationships between entities, storing and recalling memories for persistent agent context, and working with schema definitions to understand your data model. The skill uses curl and jq under the hood, so it works in any environment that has a bash shell available.
Why Use a Skill File Instead of MCP or a Plugin?
The Nex MCP Server and the OpenClaw plugin are ideal when your agent platform supports those integration methods natively. But not every agent framework supports MCP or has a plugin system. The SKILL.md approach works everywhere because it relies only on the agent's ability to read instructions, execute bash commands, and make HTTP requests. This makes it the most universal integration path for Nex. If your agent can run a shell command, it can use Nex.
The skill also gives you cross-agent consistency. When multiple agents in your organization all load the same Nex skill, they share the same context graph. A memory stored by one agent is instantly available to every other agent. This creates a unified organizational memory layer that spans across different agent frameworks, teams, and workflows.
Getting Started
To use the Nex Agent Skill, clone the nex-as-a-skill repository from github.com/nex-crm/nex-as-a-skill. The SKILL.md file is located in the root of the repository. Copy it into your agent's skill directory or reference it directly. Set the NEX_API_KEY environment variable with your Nex API key. The agent also needs access to curl, jq, and bash in its runtime environment. Once configured, the agent will automatically have access to all Nex context operations the next time it loads the skill.
Choosing the Right Integration Method
Nex offers multiple ways to connect your agents to organizational context. Use the Nex MCP Server if your agent supports the Model Context Protocol and you want the full 47-tool suite with structured tool calling. Use the Nex Plugin for OpenClaw if you are building with the OpenClaw framework and want automatic recall and capture built into the agent loop. Use the Nex Memory Plugin for Claude Code if you work primarily in Claude Code and want hook-based auto-recall and auto-capture with slash commands. Use the Nex Agent Skill when you need maximum portability, when your agent framework does not support MCP or plugins natively, or when you want to give any bash-capable agent access to the complete Nex context graph with zero dependencies.