estuary-flowctl-setup SKILL.md skillA
estuary-flowctl-setup from estuary/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add estuary/agent-skills/estuary-flowctl-setup@git:20260505.8873932Pins git:20260505.8873932 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- estuary/agent-skills
- Path
skills/estuary-flowctl-setup/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260505.8873932, committed May 5, 2026
- Size
- 4,468 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- Apache-2.0
Install and authenticate the flowctl CLI for Estuary. Use when setting up flowctl for the first time, troubleshooting authentication, upgrading to the latest version, or configuring programmatic access for CI/CD. Use when user says "install flowctl", "set up flowctl", "flowctl auth", "how to authenticate", "token expired", "not authenticated", "FLOW_AUTH_TOKEN", "CI/CD setup", "programmatic access", "upgrade flowctl", "flowctl not found", "command not found flowctl", "Exec format error", or…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# flowctl Setup — Install, Authenticate, and Update **flowctl** is Estuary's CLI for managing captures, materializations, collections, and derivations from the command line. ## Install ### Mac (Homebrew — recommended) ```bash brew tap estuary/flowctl brew install flowctl ``` ### Mac (direct download) ```bash sudo curl -o /usr/local/bin/flowctl -L 'https://github.com/estuary/flow/releases/latest/download/flowctl-multiarch-macos' && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/flowctl ``` ### Linux (x86-64) ```bash sudo curl -o /usr/local/bin/flowctl -L 'https://github.com/estuary/flow/releases/latest/download/flowctl-x86_64-linux' && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/flowctl ``` ### Windows No native Windows build exists. Use one of: 1. **WSL (recommended)** — Install [Windows Subsystem for Linux](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/), then use the Linux install command above inside your WSL shell. 2. **Remote dev environment** — Run flowctl on a cloud Linux VM and connect via your IDE's remote development features. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add estuary/agent-skills/estuary-flowctl-setup@sha256:51a9199c7bc41947The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260505.8873932, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 5, 2026.
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Source
estuary/agent-skills · 7 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lermmiy5k3y5nqiw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=estuary/agent-skills/estuary-flowctl-setup GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/51a9199c7bc41947e74283d68f4e68967c38fd854523f11384d84588409635cc
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