Agent Skills
A simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise
Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that agents can discover and use to do things more accurately and efficiently. Skills give agents access to procedural knowledge and company-, team-, and user-specific context they can load on demand.
What are Agent Skills?
Agent Skills are standardized packages of instructions and resources that extend agent capabilities. Agents can discover and load skills dynamically based on the task they're working on, providing them with specialized knowledge and workflows when needed.
Why Agent Skills?
Domain Expertise
Package specialized knowledge into reusable instructions, from legal review processes to data analysis pipelines
New Capabilities
Give agents new capabilities like creating presentations, building MCP servers, or analyzing datasets
Repeatable Workflows
Turn multi-step tasks into consistent and auditable workflows
Interoperability
Reuse the same skill across different skills-compatible agent products
How Agent Skills Work
Dynamic Discovery
Agents can discover available skills and load them on demand based on the task context
Open Format
Skills use the open Agent Skills format (SKILL.md), making them portable across different agent platforms
Wide Adoption
Supported by leading AI development tools including Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, and many more
What Can Skills Enable?
Domain Expertise
Package specialized knowledge from legal review processes to data analysis pipelines into reusable instructions
New Capabilities
Give agents new capabilities like creating presentations, building MCP servers, or analyzing datasets
Repeatable Workflows
Turn multi-step tasks into consistent and auditable workflows
Cross-Platform Use
Reuse the same skill across different skills-compatible agent products and tools