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# 78 commands. One flagship each.

boost's command surface spans 8 groups, from package management to team collaboration. Rather than 78 near-identical recordings, this page tours one representative command per group — the one that shows what that group is actually for — captured straight from a real terminal, no hand-edited frames.

76 Commands across 8 groups
8 Flagship recordings below
100%Recorded with VHS, not staged
0 Frames touched up by hand
See it in action

## Pick a group, watch it work

Every recording runs against a disposable `$HOME` and a throwaway fixture tap — the same sandbox the test suite uses — so nothing here touches a real skill setup.

zsh — boost install
Package Management

### `boost install`

Install a skill from a tap registry

One command copies a skill into the canonical store, symlinks it into every agent you've got enabled — Claude Code, Windsurf, Cursor — and records it in the lock file with a quality score attached. No hand-copying `SKILL.md` into three different folders.

`uninstall` `sync` `update` `bundle` `import` `pin` `snapshot` `export`

14 commands in this group.

regenerate: `vhs docs/carousel/tapes/install.tape`

zsh — boost search
Discovery & Search

### `boost search`

Search skills across tap registries (AI-ranked)

Search isn't grep over filenames — it's full-content BM25 over every skill's body text, so a query can match a rule buried three headings deep with no setup required. Ranked results ship with a relevance meter, and `--smart` reranks the top hits with Claude when it's available.

`reindex` `discover` `recommend` `browse` `trending` `stats` `count`

9 commands in this group.

regenerate: `vhs docs/carousel/tapes/search.tape`

zsh — boost explain
Skill Information

### `boost explain`

Explain what a skill does in plain English

Point it at any skill in a tapped registry — installed or not — and get a plain-English read of what it changes about the agent's behavior and when it triggers. With no `claude` CLI or API key on hand it falls back to an honest heuristic: description, outline, and every always/never rule.

`list` `info` `cat` `preview` `log` `deps` `tag`

10 commands in this group.

regenerate: `vhs docs/carousel/tapes/explain.tape`

zsh — boost tap
Registry (Taps)

### `boost tap`

Add a GitHub repo as a skill registry

Tap any bare GitHub repo — or browse the bundled catalog of 100+ classified registries offline with `--catalog --dry-run` before committing to one. Once tapped, everything inside becomes searchable and installable.

`untap` `taps` `outdated`

4 commands in this group.

regenerate: `vhs docs/carousel/tapes/tap.tape`

zsh — boost distill
Intelligence

### `boost distill`

Merge multiple skills into one deduplicated skill

Distill folds two or more skills into a single SKILL.md — union the tags, keep every distinct rule once, drop the redundant ones — with Claude doing the merge when it's available and a mechanical, honest fallback when it isn't.

`simulate` `infer` `absorb` `evolve` `context` `focus` `impact`

8 commands in this group.

regenerate: `vhs docs/carousel/tapes/distill.tape`

zsh — boost doctor
Quality & Health

### `boost doctor`

Check installation health & report issues

Doctor audits git, every tap, the lock file, each installed skill's agent symlinks, and log rotation in one pass — then names the exact command that fixes whatever it finds. Here it catches a skill wiped from the store, and `heal` restores it straight from the tap.

`lint` `audit` `verify` `drift` `heal` `conflict` `attest` `health`

15 commands in this group.

regenerate: `vhs docs/carousel/tapes/doctor.tape`

zsh — boost hooks
Configuration

### `boost hooks`

Manage Claude Code hooks (scope-aware) in settings.json

Add, list, and remove Claude Code hooks at either scope without hand-editing JSON. Every hook boost creates is tagged with a marker comment, so it only ever touches hooks it made — yours are always left alone.

`config` `create` `policy` `schedule` `serve` `mcp` `bmad` `self-update`

12 commands in this group.

regenerate: `vhs docs/carousel/tapes/hooks.tape`

zsh — boost pulse
Team & Collaboration

### `boost pulse`

Team activity feed of skill-management events

A local, chronological feed of every skill-management action — who tapped or installed what, and when — ready to hand off to a team with `boost onboard` instead of a Slack thread.

`cohort` `profile` `protocol` `replay` `who`

6 commands in this group.

regenerate: `vhs docs/carousel/tapes/pulse.tape`

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