Installation¶

Prerequisites¶

Claude Setup

Claude Code is required to compile a Mellea skill. Please ensure that the Claude Code is installed by following the guide here: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart

Claude configuration¶

Set relevant platform-specific environment variables to communicate with your Claude platform. For example, Claude via LiteLLM Gateway requires following env variables:

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL = ""
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN = ""

or if you have an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY = ""
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL = ""

Install project code¶

Clone code repository

git clone https://github.com/generative-computing/mellea-skills-compiler

Create Python environment and install library

# Requires Python >=3.11, <3.14.4
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

pip install -e .

Set Ollama API URL in the environment variables:

export OLLAMA_API_URL=<ollama-api-url>