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Agent Skills

A standardized way to give AI agents new capabilities and expertise.

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Agents are increasingly capable but often lack the context needed to do real work reliably. Skills package procedural knowledge and company-, team-, and user-specific context into portable, version-controlled folders that agents load on demand. Agents load skills through progressive disclosure in three stages: discovery (at startup, agents load only name and description), activation (when a task matches, the agent reads the full SKILL.md instructions into context), and execution (the agent follows instructions, optionally executing bundled code or loading referenced files). Full instructions load only when a task calls for them, so agents can keep many skills on hand with a small context footprint.

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