What are skills? - Agent Skills

Agent Skills are a lightweight, open format for extending AI agent capabilities with specialized knowledge and workflows.

A standardized way to give AI agents new capabilities and expertise. What are Agent Skills? Agent Skills are a lightweight, open format for extending AI agent capabilities with specialized knowledge and workflows. At its core, a skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file. This file includes metadata (name and description, at minimum) and instructions that tell an agent how to perform a specific task. Skills can also bundle scripts, reference materials, templates, and other resources. Why Agent Skills? Agents are increasingly capable, but often don’t have the context they need to do…

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