Anki Deck Skill

Workflow

Creating a deck? → Generate cards as JSON → Run create-deck Reading a deck? → Run parse-deck → Returns JSON of cards Editing a deck? → Parse first, modify JSON, recreate deck Pushing to a live deck? → Generate cards as JSON → Run push-cards

Creating Decks

1. Generate card data as JSON:

{
  "deck_name": "My Deck",
  "cards": [
    {"front": "Question", "back": "Answer"},
    {"front": "{{c1::Cloze}} deletion", "back": "", "type": "cloze"}
  ]
}

2. Run:

create-deck input.json output.apkg

Card Types

Parsing Decks

parse-deck deck.apkg > cards.json

Output format matches input format for round-trip editing.

Pushing to Live Anki

Adds cards directly to a running Anki instance (existing deck or new — the deck is created if missing). Requires Anki to be open with the AnkiConnect add-on (2055492159) installed.

push-cards input.json

Same JSON format as create-deck. Duplicates are skipped automatically. Append-only: use parse/recreate for updates or deletions.