Concept · Building with AI
Agent skills
Also called: agent skill, skills, skill, SKILL.md, Claude skills
A packaged set of instructions, sometimes with scripts, that an agent loads when a task calls for it, such as how to write a press release in your company's style. Only a short description sits in the agent's context until the skill is needed. Anthropic first developed the format and released it as an open standard, so one skill can work across several agents.
For example: A founder writes a skill for monthly investor updates, and the agent follows the same format every month.
Connects to 10
- AI agent Concept
- Context engineering Concept
- Markdown Concept
- Progressive disclosure Concept
- AGENTS.md Concept
- Context pointer Concept
- Home repo Concept
- Prompt Concept
- Startup ecosystem Concept
- Standard operating procedure Concept