Getting Started
Pound is a skill registry for Claude Code. Skills are instruction sets that give Claude new capabilities — fetched on demand, always up to date.
Install
npm i -g pound-cli
An account is created automatically — no sign-in required. From this account you can search and fetch public skills, and upload your own private skills. Open any Claude Code session and you're ready to go.
Install nono (required for sandboxing)
Pound runs every skill inside a sandbox so a skill you didn't write can't read your secrets, exfiltrate data, or trash your machine. That sandbox is enforced by nono, a kernel-sandboxing tool:
brew install nono
⚠️ Sandboxing does not work without
nono. If it isn't installed, skills still run but their shell commands are not kernel-sandboxed — Pound only prints a warning. Installnonoto actually be protected. Full details and limits: Sandboxing.
Verify
To see all availabe commands open a Claude Code session and run:
#help
Get your first skill
#caveman
Now ask the caveman an important question: How do I center a div?
Want to publish skills publicly?
Run pound signup to link your GitHub account. Public uploads are reserved for GitHub-linked accounts so every published skill has a real author behind it. Private uploads do not require sign-up.