How do I install rover?

Run npx skills add apollographql/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.

Is rover maintained, and what licence does it use?

Its repository has 117 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-13. The repository declares the MIT licence.

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rover

rover is an agent skill published by apollographql, listed under building agents. It lives in the apollographql/skills repository, which has 117 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.

Manages GraphQL schemas and federations, connecting to GraphOS for supergraph composition and authentication. Requires credentials for authentication.

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Install

skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads apollographql/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.

npx skills add apollographql/skills

Maintenance

Stars

117

State

listed

Licence

MIT

From the repository

Guide for using Apollo Rover CLI to manage GraphQL schemas and federation. Use this skill when: (1) publishing or fetching subgraph/graph schemas, (2) composing supergraph schemas locally or via GraphOS, (3) running local supergraph development with rover dev, (4) validating schemas with check and lint commands, (5) configuring Rover authentication and environment, (6) exploring or searching a graph's schema for agent-driven discovery (rover schema describe / rover schema search).

View on GitHub ↗2026-09-16

rover compared with similar skills

rover compared with other skills for the same job, by publisher, what it does, repository stars and last update
Skill	Publisher	What it does	Repo stars	Last update
rover (this page)	apollographql	Guide for using Apollo Rover CLI to manage GraphQL schemas and federation. Use this skill when: (1) publishin…	117	2026-10-13
claude-handoff	mattpocock	Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately.	296,720	2026-10-13
context-engineering	addyosmani	Optimizes agent context setup. Use when starting a new session, when agent output quality degrades, when swit…	108,371	2026-10-13
using-agent-skills	addyosmani	Discovers and invokes agent skills. Use when starting a session, or when you need to decide which skill or wo…	108,371	2026-10-13
agent-platform-inference	google	Connects to and performs inference with Google Cloud Agent Platform GenAI models, including First-Party Gemin…	21,409	2026-10-16
agent-platform-skill-registry	google	Interact with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Skill Registry to create and search for available skills.…	21,409	2026-10-16
gemini-agents-api	google	Manages custom Agent resources on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Use when the user wants to programmatical…	21,409	2026-10-16

Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.

Common questions about rover

What does rover do?: Manages GraphQL schemas and federations, connecting to GraphOS for supergraph composition and authentication. Requires credentials for authentication.
How do I install rover?: Run npx skills add apollographql/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
Who publishes rover?: apollographql.
Is rover maintained, and what licence does it use?: Its repository has 117 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-13. The repository declares the MIT licence.

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