vanillagreencom/kendex

kendex is a desktop app and command-line tool for people who use AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. It manages agents, skills, hooks and other customizations: you set them up once and use them across your tools and projects.
Features
- Installs customizations across your coding tools from one setup.
- Converts agent and skill files into the format each tool reads.
- Previews a package change before it applies it.
- Keeps a personal setup and a separate setup for each project.
- Adopts customizations you set up by hand with kendex adopt . For a project skill, the real directory moves to .agents/skills/ . With symlink delivery, separate coding-tool positions become kendex-managed links, including links you made by hand. With copy delivery, they become copies.
- Browses the community marketplace and any package repository you subscribe to.
- Opens a marketplace or a package in the app from a kendex:// link on a kendex.ai page.
- Finds outdated packages and updates them.
- Adds your own instructions to an agent or a skill, and gives one agent different settings in each tool.
- Enables, disables or removes an installed customization, and shows where it came from.
- Checks each package for unsafe commands and reports what it found.
Install
Windows: the installer at kendex.ai/download. The script installs the app and the CLI on Linux, and the CLI on macOS, where Homebrew installs the app. The other channels are in packaging.
Supported tools
| | Claude Code | Codex | OpenCode | Cursor | Pi | Gemini CLI | GitHub Copilot | Antigravity |
|---|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| Agents | ● | ● | ● | ●¹ | ● | ● | ● | ●² |
| Skills | ● | ● | ● | ●¹ | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Hooks | ● | ● | ●³ | ●¹ ³ | ●⁴ | ● | ● | ● |
| Commands | ● | ●⁵ | ● | ○⁶ | ● | ● | -⁷ | - |
| MCP servers | ● | ● | ● | ● | - | ●⁸ | ●⁹ | ● |
| Plugins | ◐ | ○ | ○ | ○ | - | ○ | ◐ | ○ |
| Pi extensions | - | - | - | - | ● | - | - | - |
● managed · ◐ enable and disable · ○ shown read-only · - not supported.
1. Cursor is managed in projects only.
2. Antigravity reads agents from its own global directory alone, so an agent installs there and never in a project.
3. OpenCode has no hook runtime and Cursor takes a rule rather than a registration, so a hook on either is instructions the model may ignore; a PreToolUse hook on Bash also sets OpenCode's permission.bash to ask.
4. Pi runs hooks through the pi-hooks extension; without it registered they are only instructions.
5. Codex stores a command as a skill.
6. Cursor has deprecated slash commands in favour of skills, so a command there is shown and never written.
7. Copilot CLI reads no command directory of its own; the one it does read is Claude Code's.
8. Gemini records whether an MCP server is on in one machine-wide file, so a project can declare a server but not switch it off there.
9. Copilot also lists its built-in MCP servers and controls them through native settings. A project's enable cannot override a personal disable.