SKILL.md

Agent Skills guides

From the definition to the install path to the authoring checklist. Each guide is citable on its own.

• Definition

  What is an Agent Skill?

  An Agent Skill is a SKILL.md folder that teaches an AI coding agent a repeatable workflow, including when to load it.

  8 minute read

• How to

  Install Agent Skills in Claude, Cursor, Codex, and Grok

  Copy the skill folder into the skills directory your agent already loads. Paths differ by tool; the SKILL.md contract does not.

  10 minute read

• Authoring

  How to write a SKILL.md that an agent will actually load

  Name, description, and when-to-use are the whole discovery surface. Write those three first, then the procedure.

  12 minute read

• Compare

  Agent Skills vs MCP: which one should you ship?

  Skills teach procedure from files. MCP exposes live tools. Most teams need both, on a clean boundary.

  7 minute read