Skills

• It's an open standard, as the way to provide specialized knowledge to the agent
• https://agentskills.io/home
• Skills extend the general knowledge of the LLM
• When invoked, a skill injects a specialized prompt/instruction set into the agent's context
• The skills npm package helps on the setup of skills

# configure an arbitrary skill
npx skills add "remotion-dev/skills" # it's a github repository! (github.com/remotion-dev/skills)

# check skills updates
npx skills check

# update skills
npx skills update

SKILL.md

• The standard format is a SKILL.md file
• The universal location is ~/.agents/skills/ (supported by Codex, Cursor, Opencode), however each agent may have its own location (e.g., ~/.claude/skills/)

---
name: commit
description: Create a well-formatted git commit message
---

## Instructions

When the user asks to commit, follow these steps:
1. Run `git diff --staged` to see changes
2. Draft a concise commit message...

• The name becomes the /slash-command, and the description helps the agent decide when to auto-invoke the skill