agentskills/agentskills: Specification and documentation for Agent Skills
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Agent Skills specification. Foundational to agent systems.
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A standardized way to give AI agents new capabilities and expertise. 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. my-skill/ ├── SKILL.md # Required: metadata + instructions ├── scripts/ # Optional: executable code ├── references
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